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Big Girl
May 2020

 

Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards

"El Huge" reveals how small-town, small-time teens can accomplish Big Ugly Things on their own. "Big Girl" chronicles the media's fascination with the towering anxieties of a sixty-foot tall teen. "The Pill," the collection's previously unpublished centerpiece, celebrates a miracle cure for obesity that sends society to a grimly delightful new utopia. "With Such People in It," also new to readers, welcomes us to a brave new world where cowardice is a virtue. "Gone with Gone with the Wind" is a nonfiction analysis of privilege, denial, literary classics, and personal honesty. "Afterimage" is a one-way trip into a VR world that's more real than our own. Also included is "Guts," which is about just what its title suggests, as well this volume's characteristically frank and thought-provoking Outspoken Interview.

"Meg Elison's stories will raise blisters on your conscience. Her politics are smart, her prose is like a razor, and her characters will break your heart. Read at your own risk." —Annalee Newitz, author of Autonomous

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“With Elison’s trademark wit and turn of phrase, we are plunged into the life of Layla Bailey, a middle schooler living her life under extreme parental neglect. Despite its adult themes, the story reads like an adventure pitched precisely for children too young to be going through it—and an unsweetened peek into the inner moral battles of a neglected preteen.”
Vanity Fair
“Both in fiction and non-fiction, Elison is clear-eyed, unsentimental, funny, furious.”
Gary K. Wolfe, Locus Magazine
"Meg Elison's stories will raise blisters on your conscience. Her politics are smart, her prose is like a razor, and her characters will break your heart. Read at your own risk."
Annalee Newitz, Lambda Literary Award Winner
"I could talk about female empowerment, body positivity, and gender flexibility. But those terms are wholly inadequate for Meg Elison’s clear-eyed satire in the guise of fantasy and science fiction. Powered by rage, incandescent with a deep understanding of injustice, angry for all the right reasons, and yet still essentially optimistic, these are the stories I need to keep me warm through the long dark night. Compelling and fierce and unstoppable."
Pat Murphy, World Fantasy Award Winner
"Meg Elison's work is visceral and compelling. A voice that doesn't so much demand attention, as it 100% deserves every ounce of it."
Elsa Sjunneson, Hugo award winning writer and editor

Words Elsewhere

Modern Promethea

All The King’s Women: The Sewer Clown Tragedy of Beverly Marsh

Dresses Like White Elephants

Repossession

Familiar Face

How Lwaxana Troi Became Our Space Aunt

The Portal

How to Write a Book in Ten Days

My Favorite Bit: The Book of Flora

The Hidden Layers of the Novel

Endor House in Lightspeed Magazine

How I Learned the Craft of Going on Dates with Girls

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