<span>Aftershock &amp; Others is the third collection of short fiction  by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson, hailed by the Rocky  Mountain News as “among the finest storytellers of our times.”<br>The  title novelette won the Bram Stoker Award and its companions touch on  the past, present, and future—from the inflationary insanity of Weimar  Germany (“Aryans and Absinthe”) to disco club–era Manhattan (“When He  Was Fab”), to the rationing of medical services in a grim near future  (“Offshore”). Wilson’s stylistic diversity and versatility are on  display in stories that pay tribute to Ray Bradbury (“The November  Game”), use a sentient killer virus as a point-of-view character  (“Lysing toward Bethlehem”), and pay unabashed homage to pure pulp  fiction in two yellow peril stories (“Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong” and  “Part of the Game”). And finally, Wilson treats us to his popular  antihero Repairman Jack at his most inventive: trapped in a drugstore  with four killers (“Interlude at Duane’s”).<br>"Bestseller Wilson  (By the Sword) displays an expert grasp of storytelling mechanics and an  impressive breadth of themes and approaches in what he says in an  afterword is his last collection. The title tale is a moving meditation  on love and loss, built on the unlikely premise of lightning-strike  survivors seeing the spirits of their dear departed at their near-death  moment of electrocution. Dreams riffs on the Frankenstein theme with its  speculation on how the monster might act were its brain to have  retained aspects of its predeath personality. In Interlude at Duane's,  urban mercenary hero Repairman Jack must foil a four-man holdup with  found weapons fashioned from consumer goods on the shelves of the  drugstore where it takes place. In all these efforts, Wilson establishes  characters with a few deft strokes, quickly sets up a tricky plot, and  then masterfully maneuvers the reader to a well-orchestrated (and  sometimes surprising) ending. ...</span>

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