She Was Good--She Was Funny
2011
First Published
3.45
Average Rating
15
Number of Pages
This short story first appeared in Playboy magazine. Walt Baffen, an Oxford-trained archeologist, is spending his first winter alone in a remote Alaskan log cabin. All goes well until the temperature drops to minus 40 and he receives a visit by an odd neighbor with a "bone to pick." What happens next goes way beyond chilling. Not since Jack London's "To Build a Fire" has a short story made a roaring fire seem so inviting.
Avg Rating
3.45
Number of Ratings
51
5 STARS
18%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
35%
2 STARS
16%
1 STARS
2%
goodreads
Author
David Marusek
Author · 11 books
Author David Marusek writes science fiction in a cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska. His work has appeared in Playboy, Nature, MIT Technology Review, Asimov’s, and other periodicals and anthologies and has been translated into ten languages. According to Publisher's Weekly, “Marusek's writing is ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny, as he forces readers to stretch their imaginations and sympathies." His two novels and clutch of short stories have earned him numerous award nominations and have won the Theodore Sturgeon and Endeavour awards. “. . . Marusek could be the one sci-fi writer in a million with the potential to make an increasingly indifferent audience care about the genre again . . .”—New York Times Book Review. “Marusek is one of the relatively few contemporary sf writers who seems deeply responsive to the contemporary world”—Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. His current novel project, Camp Tribulation, is a tale of love, faith, and alien invasion set in the Alaskan bush.
