Aguirre, Forrest
Entry updated 10 June 2024. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1969- ) US editor and author who has been associated with Jeff VanderMeer in the Leviathan anthologies of fantastic literature, specifically co-editing Leviathan 3 (anth 2002) and editing solo Leviathan 4 (anth 2004). His first fiction of genre interest was "The Nut Lady's Cabin" for The Earwig Flesh Factory in 2000; and his work, mostly ornately argued Fabulation and fantasy, has been assembled in The Butterfly Artist (coll 2002 chap) and Fugue XXIX (coll 2005). Heraclix and Pomp: A Novel of the Fabricated and the Fey (2014) follows a search for Identity on the part of a Frankenstein Monster-like Golem and a fairy for whom Time is a traversable geography. [JC]
Forrest Aguirre
born Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany: 29 July 1969
works
- Swans Over the Moon (Wilsonville, Oregon: Wheatland Press, 2007) [pb/Deborah Layne]
- Heraclix and Pomp: A Novel of the Fabricated and the Fey (Puyallop, Washington: Underland Press, 2014) [hb/Claudia Noble]
collections and stories
- The Butterfly Artist (Bayville, New Jersey: Flesh and Blood Press, 2002) [coll: chap: pb/Nick Demakis]
- Fugue XXIX (Canton, Ohio: Prime Books, 2005) [coll: hb/Terry Rentzepis]
- That Grey, Ancestral Realm 'tween Paper and Glass (Bucharest, Romania: Mount Abraxas Press, 2021) [story: chap: pb/]
- Oculus Praedecessoris (Bucharest, Romania: Mount Abraxas Press, 2022) [story: chap: hb/]
- The Eyes of the Minotaur (Bucharest, Romania: Mount Abraxas Press, 2023) [story: chap: hb/]
- Blood and Pomegranates (Bucharest, Romania: Mount Abraxas Press, 2024) [story: chap: hb/]
works as editor
series
Leviathan
- Leviathan #3 (Tallahassee, Florida: The Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2002) with Jeff VanderMeer [anth: Leviathan: pb/Dawn Andrews]
- Leviathan #4: Cities (San Francisco, California: Night Shade Books, 2004) [anth: Leviathan: pb/Myrtle Von Damitz, III]
individual titles as editor
- The Nine Muses (Wilsonville, Oregon: Wheatland Press, 2005) with Deborah Layne [anth: pb/]
- Text: UR: The New Book of Masks (Hyattsville, Maryland: Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2006) [anth: pb/Carrie Anne Baade]
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