The Ant King

"Featuring outlandish and striking imagery throughout-a woman in love with an elephant, an orange that ruled the world-this collection is a surrealistic wonderland." - Publishers Weekly"Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic."-Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing "Lively, bizarre, and funny as well as dark, sinister, and sensual."- Boston PhoenixA dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patronrs"s zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated childrenrs"s collective goes house hunting.Benjamin Rosenbaum rs"s stories have appeared in Asimovrs"s Science Fiction and McSweeneyrs"s , been translated into fourteen languages, and listed in The Best American Short Stories 2006 . Shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards, Rosenbaumrs"s work has been reprinted in Harperrs"s and The Yearrs"s Best Science Fiction . He lives in Switzerland with his family.