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Tomorrow’s Language
Out 17 October 2023.
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Description
From the World Fantasy Award-winning author Helen Marshall comes a collection of critical works focused on the evolution of writing, horror, and the weird tale.
Within this volume you’ll find an interrogation of the radical poetics of M. John Harrison’s worldbuilding, deep dives into the works of Stephen King and Kelly Link, and a meditation on the need for new and evolving language to describe weird times. You’ll also find Marshall’s extraordinary story, Survival Strategies, accompanied by an extended commentary that unearths its hidden depths and utilization of the uncanny.
Insightful, dangerous, and incredibly precise, Tomorrow’s Language shows us Dr Helen Marshall’s critical work on horror and writing craft are just as unsettling, startling, and viscerally engaging as her best work as a fiction writer.
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| Release Date | 17 October 2023 |
| Pages | 108 |
PRAISE FOR TOMORROW’S LANGUAGE
“Tomorrow’s Language traverses the strange territory between the ‘real’ world and the world of story. You quickly realise that there’s a labyrinthine mind behind these essays as you weave your way through a meditation on haunting, horror, on unmaking and memory. Marshall, whether in fiction or otherwise, is always wry and sharp and profound, and makes her readers better witnesses to the world.”
Angela Slatter, award-winning author of The Path of Thorns
About The Author
Helen Marshall
Dr. Helen Marshall’s creative writing aims to bring the past into conversation with the present. After receiving a PhD from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford investigating literature written during the time of the Black Death. Her first collection of fiction, Hair Side, Flesh Side, which won the Sydney J Bounds Award in 2013, emerged from this work as a book historian. Rather than taking the long view of history, her second collection, Gifts for the One Who Comes After, negotiated very personal issues of legacy and tradition, creating myth-infused worlds where “love is as liable to cut as to cradle, childhood is a supernatural minefield, and death is ‘the slow undoing of beautiful things’” (Quill&Quire, starred review). It won the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award in 2015. Her debut novel The Migration was one of The Guardian’s top science fiction books of the year. It was shortlisted for two British Fantasy Awards as well as the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
She is a Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing at The University of Queensland.
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