Strange Attractor Journal Three - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0954805437 ISBN 13 : 9780954805432

Editeur : Strange Attractor Press, 2006

Synopsis

A third helping of high strangeness from the acclaimed Strange Attractor anthology series.

Contents
Contra Genesis – Catherine Eisner
Unusual cases of extra-genital conception, extra-uterine gestation, and other anomalous exits

Burmese Daze – Erik Davis
In which the author submits to the pleasures of a transgender spirit possession festival

Adventures in the Fourth Dimension – Mike Jay
A Victorian time machine and history's first theme park ride

Ego in Exotica Sum – Ken Hollings
In memoriam Martin Denny, crown prince of the exotica sound

A Psychoactive Bestiary – Richard Rudgley
The joy of zootoxins, from the ant to the giraffe

Liberté, Légalité, Éternité – David Luke
Some notes on psychonautic misadventures in time

Kandinsky's Thought Forms – Gary Lachman
The occult roots of modern art

Magic Words – Steve Moore
Virgil the Necromancer in mediæval legend

Abu'l-Qasim al-Iraqi – Robert Irwin
12th century Arab alchemists on the edge of knowledge

The Electrochemical Glass – Richard Brown
A slow-evolving artwork from a living alchemist

The Man Behind the Screen – David Rothenberg
Hans Christian Andersen's greatest and least-known work

The Mole of Edge Hill – John Reppion
Joseph Williamson, Liverpool's tunnelling philanthropist

La Maison de Poupées – Robert Ansell
A photographic study of a magnificent compulsion

The Dirty Thirties – Alexis Lykiard
From Arthur Koestler's Encyclopædia of Sexual Knowledge

Paint it Black – Stewart Home
Autohagiography of an artist

Redonda and Her Kings – Roger Dobson
The island life of early science fiction author MP Shiel

Magic in Paris – Phil Baker
Demons of the opium den in Thirties Paris

The Dark Man's Dreams – Doug Skinner
An introduction to Xavier Forneret, Surrealism's lost poet

Ghosts: A short Story
by Lady Vervaine

Plus original artworks by Alison Gill, Josephine Harvatt, Betsy Heistand, Katie Owens, Arik Roper.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Pilkington founded Strange Attractor in 2001 and the Press in 2004. He is the author of 'Mirage Men' (2010), which was made into a feature documentary film in 2013, and 'Far Out: 101 Strange Tales from Science's Outer Edge' (2007). His writing has appeared in publications including Fortean Times (where he was a contributing editor) The Guardian, Frieze, Boing Boing, Sight and Sound, the Wire and various anthologies and catalogues. Mark is also half of the experimental synthesiser musical duo Teleplasmiste.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Strange Attractor Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0954805437
• ISBN 13: 9780954805432
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Éditeur: Pilkington Mark
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible