![]() ![]() ![]() Thirsty ( 1997) is set in an Alternate World version of small-town America where Vampires are a constant problem and annual rituals are performed to keep their dangerously godlike Vampire Lord sealed in an empty Dimension the 15-year-old protagonist, initially prone to sarcastic teenage Humour, must come to terms with his growing realization that he is about to become a vampire and therefore must necessarily die the tale darkens steadily towards its close. Of sf interest are Anderson's first two novels. The deliberate evocation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1884) fixes the tale into a dark understanding of the myth of America. The Octavian Nothing series – comprising The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Pox Party ( 2006) and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: The Kingdom of the Waves ( 2008) – is not literally fantastic, though the cruel intricacies of its portrayal of a young Black man at the end of the eighteenth century in America justly tax the conventions of realism and the close of the second volume, as Octavian lights out for the territory, is a kind of Slingshot Ending whose trajectory leads into an unknown future. (1968- ) US author who has written almost exclusively for younger readers and the Young Adult audience for the former market – in series like the Norumbegan Quartet, which is set partly in an Alternate World, and the spoofish Pals in Peril/Thrilling Tales – he has restricted himself to Fantasy. ![]()
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