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Abbey Mei Otis is a writer and teaching artist who lives in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. Her work has been published in Tin House, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Barrelhouse, Gargoyle, and Story Quarterly, among other places.
Praise For Alien Virus Love Disaster
"Otis actually belongs with writers like Kelly Link, who freely
borrow genre materials to construct elegant literary fictions far
more about character than spectacle. . . . As odd as these worlds
are, they are populated by sharply drawn characters we come to care
about through Otis’ luminescent prose." — Gary K. Wolfe, Chicago
Tribune
”Dreamy but with an intense physicality that belies the violence
behind the longing."— Everdeen Mason, Washington Post Book
World
"It’s a collection that will keep your heart half in your throat
and half in your toes, and I recommend it." — Tor.com
"In these stories, yes, there are aliens, robots, sex dungeons,
chicken puppets, ghosts, and blobs of unknown origin and nature.
But there is also tenderness and the absence of it. There is prose
that delights. There are plastic people, and people not sure if
they can bleed. What these stories do best is sci-fi. What these
stories do best is love. And if you need to distinguish between the
two, then Abbey Mei Otis is here to deny you. For if barriers
between what is 'science fiction' and what is 'literature' haven’t
already broken down, then this collection is Abbey Mei Otis burying
a glowing-neon hammer into that tired beige wall."— Columbia
Journal
“Many of the stories share an emphasis on physicality and
embodiment, whether it be bodies distorted by alien environments or
artifacts or people thrown into their own bodies through suffering
at other, human hands. . . . highly recommended for anyone
interested in weird fiction, sf, or just a breathtaking reading
experience.” — Booklist (starred review)
"Abbey Mei Otis’s stories are incandescently dark, if you can
imagine such a thing (but maybe only she can). Full of danger and
strangeness, but written in carbonated and astounding prose that is
all her own, these stories create worlds and will make you
contemplate (and worry about) our own.” — Elizabeth McCracken,
author of Thunderstruck & Other Stories
"These are amazing, electric stories—you can feel the live wire
sizzling in them from the first sentence, and you know you're about
to take a wild, unforgettable trip. Abbey Mei Otis is my favorite
kind of writer: her worlds are uniquely strange yet eerily
relatable, and she knows how to make you laugh and weep at the same
time.” — Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will
"Abbey Mei Otis deposits the reader in bargain bin worlds
remaindered from the near futures of the more fortunate, worlds
filled with space junk and toxic glitter, gel candy and gutted elk.
These are stories for the many, for lovers and mourners, for those
who want to split their minds from their bodies and those who know
how to merge their organs in a single skin. In Alien Virus Love
Disaster, language itself is in phase change. This book is a
volatile, dangerous gift.” — Joanna Ruocco, author of Dan
"After I read this book, I woke up with bumpy, reddish growths
along my spine. They burst, releasing marvels: aliens, robots,
prefab houses, vinyl, chainlink, styrofoam, star stuff, tales from
the edge of eviction, so many new worlds. Alien Virus Love Disaster
is a super-intelligent infection. Let Abbey Mei Otis give you some
lumps.” — Sofia Samatar, author of Tender
"Abbey Mei Otis speaks for a generation of people with fractured
futures and complicated hopes. It is a collection about right now.”
— Maureen F. McHugh, author of After the Apocalypse
“The aliens have already arrived in ‘Blood Blood.’ Abbey Mei Otis
has them visiting in a way we’ve seldom seen before in genre
science-fiction: Not as hunters, conquerors or even ambassadors,
but as wildlife observers. . . . As brilliant as this cosmos and
narrative is, Otis also manages to supply rich characterizations.
It’s a concept sci-fi piece that tries something new and succeeds
on every level.” —Matt Funk, Full Stop
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