Friday, January 1, 2016

The Imago Sequence & Other Stories


The Imago Sequence & Other Stories (Night Shade Books, 2007) is Laird Barron’s first collection of short stories. It collects his earliest published stories:


“Old Virginia” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2003)
“Shiva, Open Your Eye” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September 2001)
“Procession of the Black Sloth” (original to the collection, 2007)
“Bulldozer” (SCIFICTION, August 25, 2004)
“Proboscis” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 2005)
“Hallucigenia” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2006)
“Parallax” (SCIFICTION, September 07, 2005)
“The Royal Zoo is Closed” (Phantom #0, 2006)
“The Imago Sequence” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2005)


I will be going through these stories in book order, which is the order listed above, at a rate of one story per week, time permitting.


The editions that I have (paperback and e-book) both exclude one story which was included in the limited hardcover edition:


“The Hour of the Cyclops” (Three-Lobed Burning Eye #6, July 2000)


The story is short and available on-line here at no cost, so I propose that we use it as a warm up exercise before we crack open the collection. You can expect the entry on “The Hour of the Cyclops” later this week. In the meantime, you can prepare by (re)reading it and taking notes.


If you do not have The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, it is available from the usual on-line booksellers in paperback and in multiple digital formats. Used copies of both paperback and hardcover versions are also easily (if not cheaply) found on-line.


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