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Bruce Boston

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Science Fiction, Horror, Poetry

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I've published more than sixty books and chapbooks, including the novels Stained Glass Rain and the best-of fiction collection Masque of Dreams. My work ranges from broad humor to literary surrealism, with many stops along the way for science fiction, fantasy, and horror. My novel The Guardener's Tale (Sam's Dot, 2007) was a Bram Stoker Award Finailist and a Prometheus Award Nominee. My stories and poems have appeared in hundreds of publications, including Asimov's SF Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, Realms of Fantasy, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Nebula Awards Showcase, and received a number of awards, most notably, a Pushcart Prize, the Bram Stoker Award, the Asimov's Readers' Award, the Rhysling Award, ...more

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	The Guardener's Tale 3.72 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sacrificial Nights by Bruce Boston (Goodreads Author), Alessandro Manzetti (Goodreads Author), Ben Baldwin (Illustrator) 4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stained Glass Rain 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975-2016 by Bruce Boston (Goodreads Author), Luke Spooner (illustrator) 4.67 avg rating — 24 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 4.63 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Matters 4.16 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surrealities 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pitchblende: New and Selected Poems by Bruce Boston (Goodreads Author), Michael A. Arnzen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marge Simon (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest by Bruce Boston (Goodreads Author), Robert Frazier 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shades Fantastic 4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“This is a literary hoax of the most amusing kind. Short stories and prose poems (hitherto undiscovered) by Ray Bradbury, J.L Borges, R.A. Lafferty, and Thomas Ligotti are presented as the work of a ‘Bruce Boston.’ No one writes with this sort of range, so clearly ‘Mr. Boston’ -- if that is indeed his name -- has sampled from the above list. To further test our incredulity, he claims these tales c Read more of this blog post »

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The Other Woman

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Sci-Fi Classics: Illustrated Anthology

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Charles Dickens: The Complete Novels

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Self-indulgent, and sometimes silly, but so much brilliant imagination, storytelling, characterization, and use of language, they overshadow the negatives. Still, could probably be a better novel with about 150 pages cut.
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“He who grows smaller and smaller in God’s grand scheme of things, until he is invisible to all but himself.”
― Bruce Boston, Sacrificial Nights

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“All futurity wears the head of an insect.”
― Andrew Joron

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“The authors we classified as villains, detractors, and bad role models for our children are part of the educational curriculum. Freethinkers and the gutsy ones who pursued love and went against what society preordained are those we admire. The talented that wrote about these adventurous escapades and secret interludes are part of our literary tradition.”
― Julia Ann Charpentier, The Indigo Dream Catcher

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“exhaling blue alphabets
in a stainless steel cafe of the mind”
― G. Sutton Breiding

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“In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars

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“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
― Ambrose Bierce

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