The Talosite

Rebecca Campbell

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Miscellaneous
04 October 2022

Horror & ghost stories; Science fiction; Historical fiction; First World War; Science Fiction; Horror

It's 1916, during the First World War, in an alternate world where resurrection is possible. Anne Markham, the daughter of a celebrated neurologist, is reusing the bodies of the dead, combining them into new forms and sending them back into combat, building creatures so complex, and so enormous, that they can encompass all of the fallen.

It's not life as you or I live it. It's not pain or thought as we know it. It's a different order of existence, and what arises is no longer man. They're all dead, but dead doesn't always mean what it used to. All flesh has an afterlife. And from that perspective, are we not angels, ushering them from one form to the next?

He was made of copper wire and electrical sparks and aethereal fluid and hyphae ... emerging in the mist of dawn.

By: Rebecca Campbell
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 177g
ISBN: 9781988964409
ISBN 10: 1988964407
Pages: 134
Publication Date: 04 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rebecca Campbell is a Canadian writer of weird stories and climate change fiction. Her work hasappeared in The Year's Best Science Fiction, The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volumes 5 & 6, in addition to many contemporary magazines, including The Magazine of Fantasy andScience Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Interzone. She won the Sunburst award for short fiction in 2020 for The Fourth Trimester is the Strangest and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 2021 for An Important Failure. NeWest Press published her first novel, The Paradise Engine, in 2013. You can find her online atwhereishere.ca.

Reviews for The Talosite

Praise for The Talosite Campbell captures the perfect voice in this deftly-crafted alternate history that explores both wonders and horrors and the blurred space where the two bleed into one. A tale of science and war that is at once fantastical and frightening for how plausible it feels. A meticulously-built alternate history set against the backdrop of WWI, weaving in dark and fantastic elements that bring to mind the classic science fictional horror of Mary Shelley. Classic and timeless. - A.C. Wise, Author of Wendy, Darling, and The Ghost Sequences. Praise for The Paradise Engine [a] mystifying story that melds the Vaudeville era of Vancouver history with contemporary Vancouver. BC Bookworld Rebecca Campbell brings intelligence and mystery to this strange indie tale. Thomas Hodd, Telegraph-Journal What The Paradise Engine invites us to consider is the form, the meaning, and the price of going on. Immortality, the story warns us, always demands a sacrifice. Jennifer Quist, The Rusty Toque