Witpunk

Welcome to Witpunk, a fiendish tour through the art of satire. Inside, pasthe mundane corridors of contemporary fiction, readers will find twenty-fourind-tickling stories - half original to this volume and the other halflassic and recent gems, specifically chosen for the timelessness of theirardonic bite. Contributors include such celebrated award-winners as Robertilverberg, Allen Steele, Cory Doctorow, Jeffrey Ford, Pat Murphy, Patadigan, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, William Sanders, Hiromi Goto, Paul Di Filippond James Morrow, plus such acclaimed state-of-the-art satirists such asradley Denton, Don Webb, Ernest Hogan, Eugene Byrne, Leslie What, LaurentcAllister, David Langford, William Browning Spencer and Ray Vukcevich. Thetories in Witpunk - whether dabbling in science fiction, fantasy, crimeiction, horror or just plain realism - range in style from dark comedy toaugh-out-loud farce, from surrealistic fancy to cautionary satire, fromebellious transgression to exuberant hilarity, from gonzo weirdness toacabre humour. But whatever their style, their wit is right on.

Editor Claude Lalumiere is a critic and short story writer living in Montreal. He formerly ran Nebula, an English-language bookshop devoted to "the fantastic, the imaginative, and the weird." Editor Marty Halpern, a 2001 World Fantasy Award Finalist for editing, is the editor of Golden Gryphon Press, legendary in science fiction circles. He lives in San Jose.