Bill Kinsella is not the only all-star writer in Baseball Fantastic. Gathered in this collection are baseball stories by Nebula Award winners John Kessel and George Alec Effinger, Bram Stoker Award winner Edo van Belkom, Writers of the Future winner Scott Nicholson, reknowned authors Rick Wilbur, Ron Carlson, Andrew Weiner, and Louis Phillips, as well as outstanding tales by new writers discovered by the editor. The book also features an introduction and two original, previously unpublished stories by Kinsella himself. Join W. P. Kinsella in the thrill of reading the world-class stories collected in Baseball Fantastic.
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W. P. Kinsella wrote the fantasy novel Shoeless Joe, universally recognized as the Great American-Baseball Novel, which became the feature film, Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner. The famous Kinsella line "If you build it, they will come," is now part of popular culture. Nominated for Academy Awards and featured during World Series broadcasts, W. P. Kinsella is the premier baseball fiction writer in the world.
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W.P. Kinsella's quote on the cover says everything: "Baseball knows no limits, and the true baseball field, the foul lines diverge forever, eventually taking in most, or all of the universe." If you're into speculative/science fiction and baseball, this book offers many treats. Included are a few of Kinsella's short stories ("Fred Noonan Flying Services", "The Indestructable Hadrian Wilks"), along with stories from lesser known writers. In Ron Carlson's "Zanduce at Second," a ballplayer's foul balls regularly kill fans, while Scott Nicholson's award-winning "The Vampire Shortstop," is about, well, a vampire shortstop. John Kessel's alternate history of "The Franchise" pits George Herbert Walker Bush against a flamethrowing Castro on the baseball diamond, and is one of the many highlights in this collection. Sure, there are a few duds, but Kinsella's choices bat above .400. Highly recommended.
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