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Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod (April 2013)
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Overview: Imagine there’s no Lennon....

In the reality-altering novella Snodgrass, John Lennon sidesteps his musical destiny and instead becomes a civil servant. After spending his adolescence like so many others had, playing in a band with friends, John Lennon knows it’s time to grow up. Skipping out on the Beatles before they would go on to become one of the greatest rock groups of the twentieth century, John moves to Birmingham. As he watches the exploits of friends Paul, Ringo, and George, John grows older and lives an ordinary life - and he is left wondering what if....?

With Snodgrass as its anchor, this collection of eleven stories also includes:

* The Chop Girl, inspired by the infamous Dresden bombing raids;
* Past Magic, a futuristic account of parents cloning their children who have passed away;
* New Light on the Drake Equation, inspired by a man’s journey as he searches for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence
* And seven more tales that showcase MacLeod’s breadth as a writer.

Genre: Fiction, Speculative Fiction

"MacLeod’s originality enriches and enlivens the genre, and his fiction—though often grim—should be read by everyone looking for something that is truly out of the ordinary." —Publishers Weekly

"Ian MacLeod writes like an angel. He strings together ideally chosen words into sentences that are variously lush, sparse, subtle, bold, joyous, mournful, comic, or tragic... But it’s on the character front that MacLeod truly expends his best efforts and achieves the most." —SF Signal

"One of the finest prose stylists around, and—borrowing as he does much of the melodrama of Victorian literature, along with the revisionist modernism of later authors like D. H. Lawrence—his writing is unfailingly elegant." —Locus

"Please ignore the gawd-awful cover art, and download this book. Then turn immediately to the story New Light on the Drake Equation, begin reading... and then try to catch your breath. You will mutter...

WOW, this story is great!...
WOW, this guy can write!...
WOW, how come no one knows about this guy?

Yes, Ian MacLeod is that good. Then continue reading the other excellent stories. You will be glad you did." —ephemeral

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