Animated Objects – hardback

Animated Objects

Linda D. Addison

This collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror poetry and short stories includes an introduction from Barry N. Malzberg and the short story, "Little Red in the Hood," which appeared on Ellen Datlow's Honorable Mention list in Tenth Annual Year s Best Fantasy & Horror. Animated Objects takes you from the Outside to deep Inside Linda Addison s imagination. Each chapter invites the reader to journey into a universe of the fantastic. The path is paved with light and darkness, like life, but the true center lies in The Prelude. The last section, journal entries, is a peek into the workings of a writer s mind. In entries from 63 hand-written journals lie the beginnings of poems, starts and endings to stories, observations and life lists. Become part of the journey. In the end, love is all that matters.

"Addison has enough invention for two writers. And enough heart for three." Terry Bisson, award-winning science fiction author

A surprising and startling debut...Its works, sometimes tickle and at other times cut, taking the reader from joy to despair, reality to fantasy, and in the end affirming that the journey is indeed, worthwhile." --Pirate Writings Magazine

Linda D. Addison born in Philadelphia, PA is an American poet and writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Addison is the first African-American winner of the HWA Bram Stoker Award®, which she won five times for her collections Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (2001) and Being Full of Light, Insubstantial (2007) and How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend (2011) and Four Elements (2014) and The Place of Broken Things (2019). In 2016 Addison received the HWA Mentor of the Year Award and in 2018 she received the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award. She has published over 350 poems, stories and articles and edited several anthologies. Addison is a founding member of the writer’s group Circles in the Hair (CITH), and a member of HWA, SFWA and SFPA.