My new book, Gravity Box and Other Spaces, has been getting some notice. I offer, in a spasm of unusual self-promotion for me, a selection of recommendations and quotes:
This author is among the most valuable—and insufficiently appreciated—visionaries in the SF field, and his new collection is an important addition to his corpus delectable. Allow me to reprint a quotation I offered the publisher. “Ranging from rural fantasy to urban dystopia, Gravity Box and Other Spaces is the opposite of a black hole: Mark Tiedemann has wrought a stellar event from which phenomena of every sort—fancies, fears, ideas, aspirations, surges of eros, irruptions of violence—escape to transfix and enlighten us.â€
James Morrow, author of The Godhead Trilogy and The Philosopher’s Apprentice
Mark Tiedemann’s worlds are surreal, sexy, and strange. This is an inventive collection from an author who never fails to surprise.
Carolyn Ives Gilman, author of Isles of the Forsaken and Halfway Human
Mark Tiedemann includes enough scientific and fantastical details to satisfy the most demanding sf/f reader, but the stories really draw their power from the book’s human elements—a woman’s longing for her lover’s touch, a young boy’s yearning to belong, an adolescent’s desperate attempts to break free of the poisonous gravity of home. It’s the familiar that makes the alien so relatable and so real.
Sharon Shinn, author of Archangel, Royal Airs, and The Turning Season
The stories here may make you smile or cry. At least once, I wanted to hurl the book in anger at what the author had allowed to happen to a character I had come to care about. That I cared enough to be that angry shows Tiedemann’s success as a writer.
Stephen Bolhafer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mark Tiedemann’s Gravity Box and Other Spaces…contains the marks of quality from beginning to end. The dishes he serves are varied, nicely spiced, and will satisfy a variety of fantastical palates.
Janet L. Cannon, Revision is a Dish Best Served Cold
One of Tiedemann’s strengths has always been his ability to create fascinating worlds and complex characters and this book is no exception.
Brittany Porter, St. Louis Books Examiner, Examiner.com
I’m blushing (not really, but I could). It’s one thing to be allowed to publish and offer my stories, but to see responses like this is a real pleasure. I hope the book continues to please and by all means, express your opinions!
Thank you.
