Tales from the Coming War is a sewn hardback of 253 pages, printed lithographically, with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and d/w.

 

ISBN 978-1-912586-61-5

 

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TALES FROM THE COMING WAR

by

Eric Stener Carlson

 

Cover painting and illustrations by Joseph Dawson

 

One day, we will read the last book we will ever read; listen to the last record. We will run down the street, laughing, drenched to the bone by the last rainstorm. Far from the crumpled clothes in the hall, we will feel under the sheets for the last time that familiar heart-beat next to us.

 

These things are inevitable, and yet we continue to hope, and plan, and love.

 

This is how the characters in this collection face the last war the world will ever know. From the wild countryside of West Virginia, to a sterile museum in London, from a frozen battlefield in Ukraine to the high plains of Peru, and from islands scattered across the North Sea, the Aegean, and the Pacific, and many places in between, they resist, they imagine, and they remember—and they find that memory is an act of resistance, too.

 

Contains: ‘Notes on the Coming War’, ‘I See Minza’, ‘Desertscape’, ‘Christ, Mammoth’, ‘Death is like a Slotted Spoon’, ‘In our Silences, They Speak’, ‘Roses’, ‘Chronicle’, ‘The Zig-zag Line’, ‘Letter to my Husband’, ‘Bookshelf’, ‘Moth’, ‘Cruel & Unusual’, ‘Dolls at Noon’.

 

Publication 17th January 2025

 

Eric Stener Carlson (Minnesota, 1969) has spent most of his life abroad, and his writing reflects his experiences in South-East Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America. His work spans strange tales, horror, mystery and science fiction.  He is particularly interested in the struggle for humanity within con¬texts of automation and violence. He has published two novels with Tartarus Press, The Saint Perpetuus Club of Buenos Aires (2009) and Muladona (2016), and the short story collection Dark Arts (2022). His other fiction includes the novel Anxiety of Ghosts (Amazon, 2017), the short story collection Gas (Mount Abraxas, 2017) and his first novel written in Spanish, Plaza Lavalle (Raphus Press, 2022). Eric’s short stories and articles have appeared in journals and collections throughout the Americas and Europe. He currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland.