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The Lion and the Aardvark: Aesop's Modern Fables

These confusing times of Internet trolls, one-percenters, toxic fame, and impending singularity cry out for clarity — the clarity found in Aesop’s 2,500 year old fables.

70 writers from across the creative spectrum bring their modern sensibilities to this classic format. Zombies, dog-men and robot wasps mingle with cats, coyotes and cockroaches. Parables ranging from the punchy to the evocative, the wry to the disturbing, explore eternal human foibles, as displaced onto lemmings, trout, and racing cars. But beware — in these terse explorations of desire, envy, and power, certitude isn’t always as clear as it looks.

Authors include:

Robert Jackson Bennett, Jason L. Blair, Jesse Bullington, Jim Demonakos, Ray Fawkes, Matt Forbeck, Ed Greenwood, Dave Gross, Taniah Hershman, Jonathan L. Howard, Stephen Graham Jones, John Kovalic, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Adam Marek, Sandy Petersen, JT Petty, Wena Poon, Richard Scarsbrook, Ekaterina Sedia, Greg Stafford, Chuck Wendig, Jim Zubkavich & more.

Contents:

The Story of the Moral — An Introduction by Robin D. Laws

Can't Learn New Tricks from an Old Dog — Greg Stafford

The Amok — Sandy Petersen

The Lion & the Aardvark — Ekaterina Sedia

Cow & Dog — Matt Forbeck

Shrew & Sloth — Halli Villegas

The Beaver & the Trout — Richard Scarsbrook

The Lemmings & the Sea — Graeme Davis

The Little Meme That Could — Emily Care Boss

Wasp & Snake — Livia Llewellyn

The Cat & the Cell Phone — Ann Ewan

The Wolf & Death — Julia Bond Ellingboe

Mother Knows Best — Steve Dempsey

The Very Rude Salmon — Chris Lackey

The Toymaker — Will Hindmarch

The Phone & the Fifteen-Year-Old — Heather Wood

The Microbe Who Had Perspective — Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan

The Songbird's Famous Tune — Ray Fawkes

The Man Who Tried to Hide in a Crowd — Jonathan L. Howard

The Ass & the Rain — Robert Jackson Bennett

Two Cats on a Ledge — Chad Fifer

Keeping Up With Jonesy — Aaron Rosenberg

The Axolotl — Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Loquacious Cadaver — Kyla Ward

The Terrible Lizard — Colin Beaver

The Unicorn at the Soiree — Richard Dansky

The Dowager Rabbit & the Dead Account — JT Petty

The Fox & the Quantum Physicist — Jesse Bullington

A Real Princess — Daniel Perry

The Cockroach & the Fly — Dennis Detwiller

The Raccoon & the Cat — Katarina Gligorijevic

The Dragon & the Mouse — Ed Greenwood

The Brood, the Murder & The Tale of the Weasel Boyfriend — Epidiah Ravachol

The Tiger the Dove — Nadia Bulkin

The Backwards-Bent Badger & The Forward-Facing Frog — Jim Zub

One For The Girls — Sue Train

Shotaro & Haruka — Wena Poon

The Scientist & the Zen Master — Benj Tentt

The Stray Dogs Learn Their Lesson — Nick Mamatas

The Three Zombies & the Crypt Keeper — Peter Freeman

The Mouse & the Supermall — Dave Gross

The Goat Who Wished to Go to Market — Genevieve Valentine

The Minotaurs & the Signal Ghosts — Peter M. Ball

The Rats & the Cockroaches — Julie McArthur

Bored To Fu — Monica Valentinelli

The Poison-Well — Molly Tanzer

The Squirrel & the Pigeons — Susannah Dainow

The Coyote & the High Density Feed Lot — Greg Stolze

The Singer's New Story — Rob Heinsoo

The Game of Death & Dragon — Sarah Newton

The Man & the Fish — Jim Demonakos

The Snake & its Skin — Stephen Graham Jones

The Boy & his Imaginary Enemy — Chuck Wendig

The Scientist & the Tiger — Tania Hershman

The Clan of the Crazy Babies — Ursula Pflug

Jackdaw & Doves — Laura Lush

Great Grandmother & the Blessing of the Sea God — Janqui Mehta

The Muskrat & the Deadline — John Kovalic

Grandma's Dragon — Adam Marek

Barking John — Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 280
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781908983022
  • Genres
  • fantasy, anthologies
  • Release date
  • 2013