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In the Mean Time

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HarperCollins, Apr 24, 2012 - Fiction - 216 pages

A history teacher begins his unorthodox senior course with clips from an ominous surveillance video, causing a student's home life to deteriorate along with the lessons.

A girl with a second head that changes into different historical and fictional identities tries to find her father while figuring out how to handle Mom and the book club.

A blog documents society's slow, unexplained, but inexorable end, or is it only a collection of pixel-sized paranoia?

A once-awkward teen holes up in a kiddie-themed amusement park after the end of the world, and schemes to take Cinderella's Castle by force.

This collection by Paul G. Tremblay (author of The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland) features fifteen stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and personal, and stories of longing and coping.

  

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And the smooth, expert writing. - Goodreads
I hate Paul Tremblay for being such a talented writer. - Goodreads
It takes a very good writer to do that. - Goodreads
... fuck you, awesome writing! - Goodreads
It changes pace, tone, and even genre. - Goodreads

Review: In the Mean Time

User Review  - Nicholas Kaufmann - Goodreads

A collection of mini-masterpieces about the end of the world, both actually and personally. I hate Paul Tremblay for being such a talented writer. Or I would if he had a uvula. But he doesn't, so I take pity on him. You should, too. Read full review

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User Review  - M Griffin - Goodreads

I first saw Paul Tremblay's name mentioned in the blogs of several other writers I enjoy, so it should be no surprise that I enjoy the fictional worlds he creates. I love the way Tremblay balances ... Read full review

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Contents

The Teacher
The TwoHeaded Girl
An Excerpt from A History of the Longesian Library
Feeding the Machine
Figure 5
Growing Things
Harold the Spider Man
Rhymes with Jew
The People Who Live Near Me
Theres No Light Between Floors
Headstones in Your Pocket
Its Against the Law to Feed the Ducks
We Will Never Live in the Castle
Acknowledgements
Copyrights
About the Author

The Marlboro Man Meets the End
The Blog at the End of the World

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About the author (2012)

Paul Tremblay is also the author of the novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. He is the author of the short speculative fiction collection Compositions for the Young and Old, and the novellas City Pier: Above and Below and The Harlequin and the Train. His short fiction has been nominated twice for the Bram Stoker award and won the Black Quill editor’s choice award. Stories have appeared at Weird Tales, Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three, and Best American Fantasy 3. He served as fiction editor of ChiZine and as co-editor of Fantasy Magazine, and is also the co-editor (with Sean Wallace) of the Fantasy, Bandersnatch, and Phantom anthologies. Paul is currently an advisor for the Shirley Jackson Awards. He still has no uvula, but plugs along, somehow.

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