Logorrhea
  • Published: 15 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780553384338
  • Imprint: Random House Worlds
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $24.99
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Logorrhea

Good Words Make Good Stories

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“Delightful . . . A treat for dictionary hounds and vocabulary-challenged word lovers everywhere.”—Booklist

For most of us, these prizewinning spelling bee words would be difficult to pronounce, let alone spell. We asked twenty-one of today’s most talented and inventive writers to go even further and pen an original tale inspired by one of dozens of obscure and fascinating championship words. The result is Logorrhea—a veritable dictionary of the weird, the fantastic, the haunting, and the indefinable that will have you spellbound from the very first page.

Including twenty-one stories and the inscrutable words that inspired them:

Chiaroscuro: “The Chiaroscurist” by Hal Duncan
Lyceum: “Lyceum” by Liz Williams
Vivisepulture: “Vivisepulture” by David Prill
Eczema: “Eczema” by Clare Dudman
Sacrilege, Semaphore: “Semaphore” by Alex Irvine
Smaragdine: “The Smaragdine Knot” by Marly Youmans
Insouciant: “A Portrait in Ivory” by Michael Moorcock
Cambist: “The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics” by Daniel Abraham
Logorrhea: “Logorrhea” by Michelle Richmond
Pococurante: “Pococurante” by Anna Tambour
Autochthonous: “From Around Here” by Tim Pratt
Vignette: “Vignette” by Elizabeth Hand
Sycophant: “Plight of the Sycophant” by Alan DeNiro
Elegiacal: “The Last Elegy” by Matthew Cheney
Eudaemonic: “Eudaemonic” by Jay Caselberg
Macerate: “Softer” by Paolo Bacigalupi
Transept: “Crossing the Seven” by Jay Lake
Psoriasis: “Tsuris” by Leslie What
Euonym: “The Euonymist” by Neil Williamson
Dulcimer: “Singing of Mount Abora” by Theodora Goss
Appoggiatura: “Appoggiatura” by Jeff VanderMeer

“This book is a logophile’s dream—a left-field collection of stories inspired by winning words from the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Anyone who has ever spent an hour or two happily browsing the pages of a dictionary will find something to love here.”—Kevin Brockmeier, author of A Brief History of the Dead
  • Published: 15 July 2007
  • ISBN: 9780553384338
  • Imprint: Random House Worlds
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

John Klima

Anthology editor John Klima spent the first quarter century of life in the state of Wisconsin. He moved to New Jersey in the late 90s to get a job in publishing. Since then John has worked in publishing, computer programming, and—since completing his Master's degree in Library and Information Science in December 2005—librarianship. He currently works as the young adult librarian and systems administrator at his local library. Outside of work, he edits the science fiction zine, Electric Velocipede.

Praise for Logorrhea

  • "This book is a logophile's dream---a left-field collection of stories inspired by winning words from the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Anyone who has ever spent an hour or two happily browsing the pages of a dictionary will find something to love here." --Kevin Brockmeier, author of A Brief History of the Dead
  • "A treat for dictionary hounds and vocabulary-challenged word lovers everywhere." --Booklist
  • "The authors...have taken this interesting idea to many different places, creating a fantastic and fascinating set of stories. The paths that stories take to their genesis word can be short or long, but they are always interesting. This is a complex and very interesting anthology, one that has allowed the writers great freedom within the restraints of one word. John Klima should take a bow for not only choosing such an interesting theme, but also for gathering such an stimulating group of authors. I urge you to seek out LOGORRHEA which has not only some winning spelling bee words but some very winning stories." --SFRevu.com
  • "What a concept! After reading these excellent stories, you'll enjoy dropping words at cocktail parties and feigning shock when forced to explain them to your uneducated friends." --Rocky Mountain News, Grade: A
  • "All of the stories in this collection are soundly written, some containing passages of lyric beauty and some playful and alluring. Some like Paulo Bacigalupi's tale of murder, "Softer," are chilling in tone. But each is worthy reading. Not all the stories will suit every reader's taste, but it's a good bet that at least one of them will." --2theadvocate.com

    • "Delightful.... A treat for dictionary hounds and vocabulary-challenged word lovers everywhere."—Booklist

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