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Unpossible and Other Stories Paperback – November 1, 2011

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The short stories in this first collection by critically acclaimed writer Daryl Gregory run the gamut from science fiction to contemporary fantasy, with a few stories that defy easy classification. His characters may be neuroscientists, superhero sidekicks, middle-aged heroes of children's stories, or fantatics spreading a virus-borne religion, but they are all convincingly human. • Includes two never-before published short stories • Introduction by Nancy Kress

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November 1, 2011
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A Publishers Weekly Top 5 SF / fantasy book of the year. A "knockout debut collection." publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2011/sf-fantasy-horror#book/book-4

Faren Miller, Locus Magazine: "With three outstanding novels and plenty of stories on his résumé, Daryl Gregory has found ways to explore the human mind and spirit - for good, bad, or any of the strange places between such absolutes - that seem very much his own in his first collection." tinyurl.com/7ynb7s3

Gary K. Wolfe, Locus Magazine: "...One of the most consistently interesting and yet least predictable writers of the last decade... Gregory can write so fluently and convincingly about relationships that he barely needs the machinery of the fantastic at all."

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fairwood Press, Inc (November 1, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 276 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933846305
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933846309
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.62 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,708,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #863 in Science Fiction Short Stories
- #25,224 in Short Stories (Books)
- #117,997 in Fantasy (Books)

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Daryl Gregory is an award-winning writer of genre-mixing novels, stories, and comics. His latest novel, SPOONBENDERS, about a down-on-their-luck family with psychic powers, was published by Knopf in June, 2017, and is being developed for television by Paramount and Anonymous Content.

His recent work includes the young adult novel HARRISON SQUARED (Tor, March 2015), a Locus Award finalist which will be reissued by Tor Teen in 2018, along with two sequels. The novella WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY FINE won the World Fantasy award and the Shirley Jackson award, was a finalist for the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus awards, and is in development for television by Universal Cable Productions.

His SF novel AFTERPARTY was an NPR and Kirkus Best Fiction book of 2014, and a finalist for the Campbell and the Lambda Literary awards. His first novel, PANDEMONIUM, won the Crawford award and was a finalist for the World Fantasy award. His other novels are THE DEVIL'S ALPHABET (a Philip K. Dick award finalist) and RAISING STONY MAYHALL (a Library Journal best SF book of the year).

Many of his short stories are collected in UNPOSSIBLE AND OTHER STORIES, which was named one of the best books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly. He wrote the choose-you-own-adventure -style video game, "Flatline", for 3 Minute Games. His comics work includes the sereies "Legenderry: Green Hornet," "Planet of the Apes," "Dracula: The Company of Monsters" (co-written with Kurt Busiek), and the graphic novel "The Secret Battles of Genghis Khan."

He lives and writes full-time in Oakland, California.

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D. Avery

He is an amazing writer. He has a gift for making such ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 11, 2017

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I'm a huge fan of Daryl Gregory. He is an amazing writer. He has a gift for making such amazing characters in such weird, yet believable, worlds and circumstances. Pandemonium, Spoon Benders, After Party, and Stony Mayhall... some of my favorite books I've ever read. Yet, never been a huge fan of short stories. Some of them are good, but most of the time the stories are just not quite there, the characters aren't quite fleshed out... could've used 50 more pages and it would've been pretty good. Very few short stories have ever really stuck with me.

Yet, most of these have. Just to go over a few: Second Person, Present Tense (the first short story) will stick with me the rest of my life. It scared me in a weird way. It's something the idea behind it keeps popping up in the back of my head from time to time. It's worth the money just for that alone. Amazing, fantastic, and the way he explains the idea behind it is phenomenal. Damascus.. it's hard to even get into that one. It's a brilliant story, but left me feeling not okay. Sick even. Which is great... what's reading if you don't feel something? It's uncomfortable, yet doesn't quite let you go or allow you to escape and sticks with you... Again, worth the price of the entire book. And the Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm. Wow, I loved this story. It's set in such a different world, not unlike our own, were superheroes, giant robots, and other human like creatures exist but the world and characters are so well fleshed out in such a small amount of space and words, it's hard to ignore. It's a fantastic read, one that'd make an epic summer blockbuster movie that'd be remembered as a classic were barely anyone would leave with dry eyes.

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Stunned Happy

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This masterful collection throws the hemispheres of your brain into conflict--you want to slow down to savor the artful language yet race ahead to gobble up the plot. Gregory guns the momentum with fast-forward gaps in the narrative structure that never leave you behind. Rather these stories slingshot you to childlike delight even while you'll finish them smarter, more mature, more weighted with wisdom than you knew you could be. I admire the heck out of this book.

The opening sequence of the title piece, "Unpossible," accomplishes visceral immediacy: "somewhere in the dark a mirror or storm window smashes. The noise doesn't matter. There's no one in the house below him to disturb," the face of the compass is "scuffed white but uncracked," "the weight of the bike drags him down the attic stairs."

"He pays no attention to street names; he looks away when signs appear in his headlights." Who does that? Why? I was hooked on the first page, but with this line, on about the third page, Gregory sank the barb deeper.

"The road ahead doesn't exist until it appears under his headlights; he's driving a plow of light through the dark." Darn it. I wish I'd written that.

A car crash careers us out of what's left of the norm, "jouncing across ground. He bounces against the roof, ragdolling, unable to hold . . ." never mind the rest of this sentence. The word "ragdolling" just convinced me that by the time I was finished reading this story, I'd be in a fit of envy. (And I was.)

A bittersweet ending, swiftly trimmed of any maudlin fat, leaves you "somewhere between UNFAMILIAR and UNKNOWN," which pretty much nails the marvel of this collection.

It isn't possible to regret buying Unpossible.

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Barry Melius

Stumbling into nirvana

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Fourteen stories ranging across Daryl Gregory's early writing efforts. Let's get the bad news out of the way-I found three or four of these of no particular interest. Forgiving the author's efforts to tell babies from bathwater is easier when one reads the rest of the stories which endorse Gregory's growing talent and hint at the worth of his subsequent work. Particularly resonant with me were the three short stories dealing with states of consciousness resembling those approached by mystics throughout the ages(I find that the phrase'reconnecting to the silence of the cosmos' works for me). This interesting part was that these states were arrived at by accident allowing his characters a glimpse into the infinite afforded few of us. These musings continue maturation in Gregory's superb Afterparty published three years after this book came out. Creative stories that also manage to be interesting highlighted by the author's down to earth world building and characterizations that ring true make Unpossible more than just backstory by a favored author.

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Carrie C.

Unpredictable in the best of ways

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Gregory's style is compelling. Each story seems to unfold with a cinematographer's "zoom-in-zoom-out" technique, which effectively captures the attention of the reader when he zooms back in. Some pieces feel inspired (but never imitative) by masters such as Bradbury, and others are strictly his own. However, what I find most fascinating is Gregory's delicate handling of theology and our own interaction, or lack thereof, with God and with ourselves.

And save the story notes for the end! It's far more fun to read the stories behind the stories and understand their chronology after you've read the entire collection.

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Unable to read the 'Kindle' edition on an actual Kindle...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 6, 2013

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This isn't a review of the book which so far is fantastic but rather an indictment of the ridiculous limitations placed on this edition. Namely you can't actually read the Kindle edition on a Kindle. I'd initially bought this book from my phone but then when I switched to my real Kindle with the great e-ink display this edition wouldn't download because it isn't compatible - Amazon are you kidding me?. The only reason I've put up with Kindle DRM so far is because it really wasn't a problem, I could read what I bought on any of my devices but that appears to no longer be the case, very misleading.

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