By Jeff VanDerMeer
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"Original and tremendous fun" [Damien G. Walter] "Good, funny, thoughtful stuff!" [John Stevens] A retired stamp collector, a priest who loves cooking and science fiction, an assistant professor that looks like a mad scientist, an aspiring librarian and a builder with the obsession with 18th century automata. What do they have in common? Secrets, of course. And these ones are only a small number of those you can find in this fantastic and engaging collection of Secret Lives. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeff VanDerMeer, World Fantasy Award winner, is a full time fantasy best seller author. You can also read his essays and reviews for The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and many others. REVIEW "Every couple of years, George Ware sneaks off for three or four weeks. "Business trip", he tells his family. "Family obligations" he tells his employer and his secretary. "You're strong. You'll survive", he tells the cats. The cats are not convinced, but, then, they never are…" A retired stamp collector, a priest who loves cooking and science fiction, an assistant professor that looks like a mad scientist, an aspiring librarian and a builder with the obsession with 18th century automata. What do they have in common? Secrets, of course. But even passion for collecting and reading books, fantasy and science fiction, mostly. They're quite similar to you, actually, isn't it? Would you like to discover their Secret Lives in a funny, ingenious and amazing way? ABOUT THE BOOK Secret Lives is a collection of short fiction (+/- 27.500 words) published by 40kBooks. 40kBooks publishes a select number of titles by award-winning authors from across the globe. Why short form of fiction? Novels can have pauses, faults: a long story wins by points. A novelette, as Julio Cortazar wrote, needs to win by knock-out. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER 40kBooks is the first Italian digital publisher. Its eBooks are divided into 3 categories: Essays, Stories and 40kCube. Essays comprise a selection dealing with digital culture. Stories are novelettes and 40kCube are short novels by award-winning authors from different countries and cultures. All of the 40kBook titles are published in multiple languages including Italian, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French and are available all over the world."Original and tremendous fun" [Damien G. Walter] "Good, funny, thoughtful stuff!" [John Stevens] A retired stamp collector, a priest who loves cooking and science fiction, an assistant professor that looks like a mad scientist, an aspiring librarian and a builder with the obsession with 18th century automata. What do they have in common? Secrets, of course. And these ones are only a small number of those you can find in this fantastic and engaging collection of Secret Lives. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jeff VanDerMeer, World Fantasy Award winner, is a full time fantasy best seller author. You can also read his essays and reviews for The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, The New York Times Book Review, and many others. REVIEW "Every couple of years, George Ware sneaks off for three or four weeks. "Business trip", he tells his family. "Family obligations" he tells his employer and his secretary. "You're strong. You'll survive", he tells the cats. The cats are not convinced, but, then, they never are…" A retired stamp collector, a priest who loves cooking and science fiction, an assistant professor that looks like a mad scientist, an aspiring librarian and a builder with the obsession with 18th century automata. What do they have in common? Secrets, of course. But even passion for collecting and reading books, fantasy and science fiction, mostly. They're quite similar to you, actually, isn't it? Would you like to discover their Secret Lives in a funny, ingenious and amazing way? ABOUT THE BOOK Secret Lives is a collection of short fiction (+/- 27.500 words) published by 40kBooks. 40kBooks publishes a select number of titles by award-winning authors from across the globe. Why short form of fiction? Novels can have pauses, faults: a long story wins by points. A novelette, as Julio Cortazar wrote, needs to win by knock-out. ABOUT THE PUBLISHER 40kBooks is the first Italian digital publisher. Its eBooks are divided into 3 categories: Essays, Stories and 40kCube. Essays comprise a selection dealing with digital culture. Stories are novelettes and 40kCube are short novels by award-winning authors from different countries and cultures. All of the 40kBook titles are published in multiple languages including Italian, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French and are available all over the world. Read more
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