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Jack Womack

(b.1956)

Jack Womack was born in Kentucky in 1956. Having survived a Kafka-esque childhood, he travelled to New York, saw it with an outsider's eye and has never been the same since. In Womack's novels, New York is strange and unsettling, a city of joy and pain, horror and transcendence. Dubbed 'the coolest writer of his generation', Womack is the favourite author of William Gibson.

Genres: Science Fiction

Series

Ambient
   1. Ambient (1987)
   2. Terraplane (1988)
   3. Heathern (1990)
   4. Elvissey (1993)
   5. Random Acts of Senseless Violence (1993)
   6. Going, Going, Gone (2000)

Novels

Let's Put the Future Behind Us (1996)

Non fiction

Flying Saucers Are Real! (2016)

Anthologies containing stories by Jack Womack

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fourth Annual Collection (1991)
A Whisper of Blood (1991)
Little Deaths (1994)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
The Horns of Elfland (1997)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eleventh Annual Collection (1998)

Short stories

	Out of Sight, Out of Mind (1990)
	Lifeblood (1991)
	That Old School Tie (1994)
	Audience (1997)		World Fantasy (nominee)

Awards

	Philip K Dick Award Best Book nominee (1993) : Elvissey
	World Fantasy Best Short Story nominee (1998) : Audience

Jack Womack recommends

Three Marys (2003)
Paul Park
"Paul Park has been, for far too many years, one of the most unjustly unknown contemporary American authors. Those who do know have long spread the word, but ultimately, to know his work you must read the word. Three Marys should, I believe, be the novel--rich in incident, warm in characterization, unforgettable in approach--that at last brings him the wider attention he justly deserves."

Infinite Detail (2019)
Tim Maughan
"Tim Maughan brings a deep knowledge of why the contemporary world works as it does, along with an informed awareness of how subcultures operate, to Infinite Detail--a powerful narrative featuring characters hardened but never crushed, told in crystal-sharp writing that leaves you wanting more."

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