Brian Francis Slattery is an American writer and an editor at '' The New Haven Review''. He has published three novels, ''Spaceman Blues: A Love Song'' (

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, 2007), '' Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America'' (Tor, 2008), and '' Lost Everything'' (Tor, 2012). ''Spaceman Blues'' was nominated for best novel by both the

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and the

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. The editors of Amazon.com named ''Liberation'' the best science fiction/fantasy book of 2008, saying it "combined the serious and the satirical in creating an unforgettable image of a future America beset by the collapse of the dollar and the specter of a new form of slavery." Slattery plays the fiddle and the banjo, and he lives outside

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with his family.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Spaceman Blues: A Love Song'' (2007) * ''Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America'' (2008) * '' Lost Everything'' (2012) * ''The Family Hightower'' (2014)

Serial fiction

* ''Bookburners'' (created by

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) ** ''Bookburners'' Season One (with Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, and

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) *** Episode 2: "Anywhere But Here" (2015) *** Episode 6: "Big Sky" (2015) *** Episode 12: "Puppets" (2015) *** Episode 14: "An Excellent Day for an Exorcism" (2015)

Short fiction

* "The Death and Life of Elodia Harwinton", ''The Revelator,'' (2014) * "The Syndrome", ''Subterranean,'' (2013) * "The Ashland Waltz", ''The Revelator,'' (2012) * "The Spleen Brothers", ''The Revelator,'' (2011) * "The Big Deal", ''The Dirty Pond,'' (2009) * "Interviews After the Revolution", ''Interfictions 2,'' (2009) * "The World Is a Voice in My Neighbor's Throat", ''Brain Harvest,'' (2009) * "A Push-Reel Mower's Rumination on Mowing the Lawn in the Gas-Powered Age", ''McSweeney's Internet Tendency,'' (2006) * "The Things that Get You", ''Glimmer Train,'' (2002)

Awards and honors

* 2012

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, ''Lost Everything''

References

External links

Brian Francis Slattery Website

Review of ''Spaceman Blues'' in the Village Voice

Review of ''Liberation'' in the Las Vegas Weekly

Review of ''Lost Everything'' in Upcoming4.me

Interview of Slattery by Leonard Lopate on WNYC radio

New Haven Review Website
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