Totalitopia (This Is Our Town; Everything Rises; Gone; In the Tom Mix Museum; And Go Like This; Paul Park's Hidden Worlds)

John Crowley's all-new essay “Totalitopia” is a wry how-to guide for building utopias out of the leftovers of modern science fiction. “This Is Our Town,” written especially for this volume, is a warm, witty, and wonderfully moving story about angels, cousins, and natural disasters based on a parochial school third-grade reader. One of Crowley’s hard-to-find masterpieces, “Gone” is a Kafkaesque science fiction adventure about an alien invasion that includes door-to-door leafleting and yard work. Perhaps the most entertaining of Crowley's “Easy Chair” columns in Harper's, “Everything That Rises” explores the fractal interface between Russian spiritualism and quantum singularities—with a nod to both Columbus and Flannery O'Connor. “And Go Like This” creeps in from Datlow's Year's Best, the Wild Turkey of horror anthologies.Plus: There's a bibliography, an author bio, and of course our Outspoken Interview, the usual cage fight between candor and common sense. John Crowleys all-new essay Totalitopia is a wry how-to guide for building utopias out of the leftovers of modern science fiction. This Is Our Town, written especially for this volume, is a warm, witty, and wonderfully moving story. One of Crowleys hard-to-find masterpieces, Gone is a Kafkaesque science fiction adventure about an alien invasion. Plus: Theres a bibliography, an author bio, and of course an Outspoken Interview, the usual cage fight between candor and common sense.