"How I loved the cool wit of these speculative stories! Filled with wonder and wondering, they’re haunted too by loss and loneliness, their imaginative reach profoundly rooted in the human condition." - Peter Ho Davies, author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself “Vivid and surreal, readers of Carmen Maria Machado will enjoy this collection.” “Things get weird in this mesmerizing debut short story collection featuring 12 stories about macabre, beautifully dark images (not unlike a Lana Del Rey song)… Think: sexuality, guilt, contradictions, drama!” “What we have here is not twelve stories but twelve shimmering portals into a surreal landscape that read like a warning.” Not just for those who enjoy short stories, but anyone who is looking for small escapes from the real world.” “As they summon disturbing signs and wonders, the stories invite readers into portraits - of marriage, childhood, grief and our glum zeitgeist - that delight, provoke and entertain.” “Fu’s mastery of clever, strange concepts is undeniable… Tautly controlled language communicates the lyrical imagination that is the foundation for each piece." Or at least, that’s what I decided after reading Monsters, because in it, Fu leaps so nimbly from story to story, center to center, taking whatever perspective necessary to take nothing in the multiverse for granted.” “The best speculative fiction seeks to decenter, decolonize, and disrupt what many have taken for granted as the universe’s natural order. “There are no throwaway lines in Lesser Known Monsters each story is rich and metamorphic.” “A terrific collection of speculative fiction, with evocative, textured prose.” “An endlessly entertaining bestiary from one of the country's most exciting practitioners of fiction.” Read the story “Sandman,” introduced by Kevin Brockmeier, on Electric Literature. Read the story “Pre-Simulation Consultation XF007867” on Tor.com. Listen to the story “#ClimbingNation” on Levar Burton Reads. Mesmerizing, electric, and wholly original, Kim Fu’s Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century blurs the boundaries of the real and fantastic, offering intricate and surprising insights into human nature. These visions of modern life wrestle with themes of death and technological consequence, guilt and sexuality, and unmask the contradictions that exist within all of us. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll a runaway bride encounters a sea monster a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman. In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare.
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