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Adam Marek

Author of Instruction Manual for Swallowing

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When It Changed: Science into Fiction (2009) — Contributor — 61 copies, 3 reviews
The New Uncanny: Tales of Unease (2009) — Contributor — 59 copies, 1 review
Beacons: Stories for Our Not So Distant Future (2013) — Contributor — 37 copies
Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem (2011) — Contributor — 35 copies, 4 reviews
We, Robots (2020) — Contributor — 29 copies
The Best British Short Stories 2011 (2011) — Contributor — 28 copies
Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science (2011) — Contributor — 25 copies, 3 reviews
The Best British Short Stories 2013 (2013) — Contributor — 19 copies
Collision: Stories From the Science of CERN (2023) — Contributor — 17 copies
Beta-Life: Short Stories from an A-Life Future (Science-Into-Fiction) (2014) — Contributor — 15 copies
The New Hero: Every Age Needs Its Heroes (2013) — Contributor — 14 copies
The Lion and the Aardvark: Aesop's Modern Fables (2013) — Contributor — 13 copies, 1 review
Murmurations: An Anthology of Uncanny Stories About Birds (2011) — Contributor — 12 copies
Bio-Punk: Stories from the Far Side of Research (2012) — Contributor — 11 copies
Spindles: Short Stories from the Science of Sleep (2016) — Contributor — 8 copies
Parenthesis: A New Generation in Short Fiction (2013) — Contributor — 5 copies
Thought X: Fictions and Hypotheticals (Science-Into-Fiction) (2017) — Contributor — 3 copies
Nature's home, Autumn/Winter 2020 (2020) — Contributor — 1 copy

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1974-02-08
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UK
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rolhirst194 reviews
Instruction Manual for Swallowing by Adam Marek
Adam Marek breaks Rol's First Rule of being a Published Author - namely 'Thou Shalt Not Be Born After 1972' (otherwise known as the 'Thou Shalt Not Be Younger Than I Am' commandment). That aside, his first collection - Instruction Manual For Swallowing - gives you everything you could want from a modern short story collection. As the blurb has it, Marek "writes tales of the fantastic, the grotesque, and the impossible - all set in familiar, even mundane worlds". Well, I'm sold.

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AlanPoulter2,081 reviews
Terracotta robot [short fiction] by Adam Marek
An aging rock star looking after his problem child joins a tour party visiting a factory making terracotta 'gladiators'. Romance ensues...
Apr 29, 2012
cait815196 reviews
Instruction Manual for Swallowing (BackLit Series) by Adam Marek
http://saltyink.com/2012/04/11/new-on-the-shelf-ten-great-canadian-fiction-title...
Apr 1, 20131 other review

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Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Edge Hill Short Story Prize

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