num_pages: 324
description: Seventeen stories from the award-winning author of the Godhead TrilogyJoin the Abominable Snowman as determined to transcend his cannibalistic past he studies Tibetan Buddhism under the Dalai Lama. Pace the walls of Ilium with fair Helen as she tries to convince both sides to abandon their absurd Trojan War. Visit the nursery of Zenobia Garber born to a Pennsylvania farm couple who accept her for the uncanny little biosphere she is. Scramble aboard the raft built by the passengers and crew of the sinking Titanicand don't be surprised when the vessel transmutes into a world even more astonishing than the original Ship of Dreams. Reality by Other Means offers readers the most celebrated results from James Morrow's thirty-five-year career designing fictive thought experiments. Anchored by seven previously uncollected stories this omnibus ranges from social satire to theological hijinks steampunk escapades to philosophical antics.
language: English
title: Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow
publisher: Wesleyan University Press