The Bodhisattva

I just put some more exclusive content up at the ‘bookspot!  Well you knew I had to get Small Beer in the House, you knew I had to get Small Beer house *stops early 90’s Funk Flex imitation* - so here we got some sweet short fiction from Benjamin Rosenbaum. Rosenbaum’s stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, the Sturgeon and the BFSA award and we have a piece that’s going to be included in his collection The Ant King and Other Stories being published by Small Beer Press this August. The story is called The Valley of the Giants and I want to thank Mr. Rosenbaum and Gavin Grant.

Check out the story here!

Publishers Weekly says:

“Plausible-fabulist” Rosenbaum’s debut collection of 17 short stories is inconsistent, but it includes some speculative gems. The thought-provoking “Start the Clock” takes place in a near future where a virus has stopped the human aging process, forcing millions of people to live forever as preadolescents. The title story is an absurdist masterwork about a man in search of a woman who has been turned into yellow gumballs, abducted and hidden away in a lair guarded by a giant roach. Most notable is World Fantasy Award–finalist “A Siege of Cranes,” which blends elements of horror, epic fantasy and religious mythology in the tale of a desperate man seeking a nightmarish enemy that has destroyed his village and killed his wife and child. Featuring outlandish and striking imagery throughout—a woman in love with an elephant, an orange that ruled the world—this collection is a surrealistic wonderland“