Butner, Richard
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(? - ) US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Saving the World" (1989 Scream) and whose speculative short fiction has since appeared in such venues as Electric Velocipede, F&SF, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Say ... and Sci Fiction. Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories (coll 2004 chap) assembles two new and three previously published tales; the title story is set in a Near Future dominated by Virtual Reality, a toxic world haunted, in a way that evokes the Media Landscape nightmares of Philip K Dick, by an anguish-inducing ex-puppeteer ghost. The Adventurists and Other Stories (coll 2022) assembles new and old material. With John Kessel and Mark L Van Name he edited Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (coll 1996). [DRL]
Richard Butner
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works
collections
- Mind Snakes (Raleigh, North Carolina: Barefoot Press/The Paper Plant, 1988) [poetry: coll: illus/Michael Carter: pb/]
- Horses Blow Up Dog City & Other Stories (Northampton, Massachusetts: Small Beer Press, 2004) [coll: chap: pb/Maria Daniels]
- The Adventurists and Other Stories (Easthampton, Massachusetts: Small Beer Press, 2022) [coll: pb/]
works as editor
- Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology (New York: Tor, 1996) with John Kessel and Mark L Van Name [anth: hb/Jan Uretsky]
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