Monterra Deliciosa Other Tales edition by Anna Tambour Keith Brooke Literature Fiction eBooks
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"Exuberant Decadence brought into the twenty-first century ... verve, style, and an endless appetite for succulent detail. Rapacious, intelligent and witty."
-- double World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer
More than 30 stories and poems from an author described by SF Site as "one of the most delightful, original, and varied new writers on hand".
A landmark collection of short fiction from a dazzling new talent. The stories range from sharp satire, through fairytale and tall tale, science fiction and fantasy, to passionate mainstream studies of life in modern Australia. Reading these stories, you quickly come to realise that you will be surprised, and surprised again.
Follow the seven scientists in search of a great theory, naturally enough (and it does seem natural in this author's hands) in a forest teeming with great theories; follow Werner, who creates intricate living machines while Gretina knits for the needy, a quite extraordinary love story where the everyday is always juxtaposed with the fantastic and real magic is never far from the surface. Flip from the whimsy of Robert Louis Stevenson's travels through the Cévennes as told by his donkey, to fears and a distorted sense of scale seen as only a child can see. Journey from a tough Australian farming community to a seaside retirement colony, to a 1970s alternative community, to rural Iowa and beyond.
Prepared to be unprepared. Be careful in here there is an author at play within these pages. Anna Tambour is having fun with you and she has a wicked sense of humour.
Includes 17,000 words of bonus material.
Chosen in two categories (Collection and Novelette) in the Locus 2003 Recommended Reading List.
"I have particularly enjoyed Monterra's fable, and have read it to my pigs Alice, Ferdinand and Isabella, who also appreciated its humour and scope."
--Tom Jaine
"Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & could never be mistaken for ordinary genre fiction ... don't imagine this as high falutin' 'lit'rature' accessible only to people with advanced degrees. Anyone with a taste for beauty, audacity, sensuality, and wit can find much to enjoy here."
--Faren Miller, Locus
"... odd and surreal ... sometimes whimsical, and often wonderfully strange."
--Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
"Anna Tambour is an Australian writer of decidedly offbeat stories... she has a supremely quirky viewpoint and a tendency toward genre-bending and strange humour. But I had no idea to what extent! Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & is a revelation and a delight. Tambour's writing ranges from mainstream to slipstream, to animal and plant fantasies, metafiction, horror, science fiction, and stories odd enough that they can hardly be described as anything but 'Tambour fiction'."
--Rich Horton, "A Different Drum Anna Tambour's First Collection Reviewed", Lost Pages
"Anna Tambour for me is one of those underrated speculative fiction authors."
--Charles Tan, Bibliophile Stalker
Monterra Deliciosa Other Tales edition by Anna Tambour Keith Brooke Literature Fiction eBooks
Anna Tambour, <strong>Monterra's Deliciosa and Other Tales</strong> (Prime Books, 2003)For reasons that would take far too long to go into here, it took me forever and a day to finish <em>Monterra's Deliciosa and Other Tales</em>, which is odd considering it's a book I quite enjoyed most of the time. It's taken me almost as long to get round to reviewing it, and I don't quite understand that, either. It's not like I have anything outrageous to say or what have you. It's a collection of good, solid-if-not-remarkable-most-of-the-time stories that vacillate between fantasy and sci-fi, usually with a dash (or more) of comedy to leaven things. I could have done without the poetry as a whole, and I could have done with a good deal more of the book reviewing ("Literary Titan, Asher E. (huh?) Treat" is my favorite piece in the collection). When Tambour is on her game, as in, for example, "Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cévennes" (a fantastical story of Stevenson's trip narrated by his pack donkey!), the prose skips off the page and sparkles in your eyes. "Crumpled Sheets and Death-Fluffies," on the other hand, is a one-trick pony, a shaggy dog joke that goes on a bit too long. And I could sit here giving you balance all day with these stories ("Klokwerk's Heart" vs. "The Refloat of D'Urbe Isle", "Monterra's Deliciosa" vs. "The Afterlife at Seahorse Drive", and to be honest after all these months I still can't tell you which side "The Magic Lino" falls on...). In short, it's a story collection, and as with the majority of story collections, the quality is variable. But Tambour is a fine writer (fine enough that I augmented my print edition of this with an ebook edition--and I should caution you there are some formatting quirks to be found here--and then went off and grabbed an ebook edition of <em>Spotted Lily</em> when I was done with this), and she brings her A game to the table enough that this is a solid recommend. ***
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Monterra Deliciosa Other Tales edition by Anna Tambour Keith Brooke Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is an excellent collection of surreal and darkly fantastic short stories from Anna Tambour. The stories contained therein range from funny to disturbing - but they all are thought-provoking and each contains a unique beauty. Well worth a read. By the way, you will find yourself wanting to try medlars by the end.
I'd like to compose a nice long essay here, because this book is worthy of at least that, but am tossing this off while my daughter watches tv, and I don't want her to watch too much, so here we go, just quickly
I don't read much fiction these days, and if I do, even less than not much of it is Australian. But Anna Tambour; what a voice, what a mind. It's a thrill to get down inside it, where it's pleasantly rank, a bit caramelly; the mind of someone who's done the hard work of investigating interesting things really deeply; especially natural things; her hands healthily dirty with all her fearless digging down where the slaters and worms are.
There's a fable about seven scientists that everyone in the sciences should read; there's a story about medlars that gave me a vertiginous feeling, a feeling like, wait, is this my world, or have I been completely blind all along...
Another about cannibals, another about higher dimensional murder -- and so on - none of them science fiction, as such -- they are what they are. Tambour fiction...
Ok, switching off the tv now.
Great stories and so well written.
Anna Tambour, <strong>Monterra's Deliciosa and Other Tales</strong> (Prime Books, 2003)
For reasons that would take far too long to go into here, it took me forever and a day to finish <em>Monterra's Deliciosa and Other Tales</em>, which is odd considering it's a book I quite enjoyed most of the time. It's taken me almost as long to get round to reviewing it, and I don't quite understand that, either. It's not like I have anything outrageous to say or what have you. It's a collection of good, solid-if-not-remarkable-most-of-the-time stories that vacillate between fantasy and sci-fi, usually with a dash (or more) of comedy to leaven things. I could have done without the poetry as a whole, and I could have done with a good deal more of the book reviewing ("Literary Titan, Asher E. (huh?) Treat" is my favorite piece in the collection). When Tambour is on her game, as in, for example, "Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson in the Cévennes" (a fantastical story of Stevenson's trip narrated by his pack donkey!), the prose skips off the page and sparkles in your eyes. "Crumpled Sheets and Death-Fluffies," on the other hand, is a one-trick pony, a shaggy dog joke that goes on a bit too long. And I could sit here giving you balance all day with these stories ("Klokwerk's Heart" vs. "The Refloat of D'Urbe Isle", "Monterra's Deliciosa" vs. "The Afterlife at Seahorse Drive", and to be honest after all these months I still can't tell you which side "The Magic Lino" falls on...). In short, it's a story collection, and as with the majority of story collections, the quality is variable. But Tambour is a fine writer (fine enough that I augmented my print edition of this with an ebook edition--and I should caution you there are some formatting quirks to be found here--and then went off and grabbed an ebook edition of <em>Spotted Lily</em> when I was done with this), and she brings her A game to the table enough that this is a solid recommend. ***
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