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Also by James Sallis:

Bright Segments, November 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Drive, September 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Bluebottle, December 2019
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Ghost of a Flea, December 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
Eye of the Cricket, November 2019
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Black Hornet, November 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Sarah Jane, October 2019
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Moth, October 2019
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The Long-Legged Fly, September 2019
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Willnot, July 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Death Will Have Your Eyes, August 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Driven, April 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Drive, September 2011
Paperback
The Killer Is Dying, August 2011
Hardcover
What You Have Left, January 2009
Paperback
Moth, January 2003
Paperback
Black Hornet, January 2003
Paperback
Ghost Of A Flea, November 2001
Hardcover
Eye Of The Cricket, April 2000
Paperback
Bluebottle, March 1999
Paperback

Bright Segments
James Sallis

The Complete Short Fiction

Soho Crime
November 2024
On Sale: November 12, 2024
848 pages
ISBN: 1641295546
EAN: 9781641295543
Kindle: B0CVKP6P9R
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller | Science Fiction

For the first time ever, the complete short fiction of literary legend James Sallis is collected in one gorgeous volume—a must-have holiday gift for the crime, mystery, or speculative fiction fan in your life.

Published over the six decades of Sallis's storied career, the complete collection contains 154 stories, 12 of which are exclusive to this volume.

James Sallis moves with ease among genres and modes: novels, stories, poetry, criticism, musicology, biography, translation. Best known perhaps as a crime writer—author of Drive and the six Lew Griffin novels along with others—his first acclaim came in the 1960s from groundbreaking short stories in science fiction publications like Michael Moorcock’s New Worlds, for which he served for a time as editor, and Damon Knight’s Orbit anthologies.

In years since, he’s published eighteen novels, numerous collections of essays, six volumes of poetry, a landmark biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau’s novel Saint Glinglin, while writing widely about books for The New York Times, LA Times, The Washington Post, and for The Boston Globe, where he served as books columnist. He’s received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.

Through it all, his interest in the short story has remained strong, with work appearing regularly in venues ranging from The Georgia Review to the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Herein you’ll find science fiction, comedy low and high, fantasy, crime stories, stories of everyday life: the realist, arealist, and surreal all together in a jumble, enjambed. Literature, Jim insists, is not a cabinet with labeled drawers, it’s a banquet table. Stroll around, pick what you want from it all. What you need. Enjoy.

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