Over the years, Stepan Chapman's peculiar short stories have turned up in an amazingly wide range of magazines and anthologies. In 1998, Chapman's first novel, The Troika, was chosen for the Philip K. Dick Award. Now Creative Arts Book Company is proud to present Dossier, Chapman's first full-length collection of short stories.
In these pages, the author flips recklessly from culture to culture in his attempt to compile a dossier on the human animal. The results are intricate, dreamlike, amusing, terrifying, and altogether unique. Strap yourself in and don't look down.
Review: "Happily, the stories in Dossier are more influenced by the Brothers Grimm than Joseph Campbell. The stories read as if they have been told and retold over generations, the idiosyncrasies of voice rubbed smooth over time. Did Chapman rewrite these stories over and over to get them just so? Whatever his method, the result is pure story, stripped of voice. A very rare thing to encounter."
-Hillary Johnson, LA Weekly
"Dossier's stories are a concoction of imaginative explorations of spirit and fancy, reflecting a mind with an unconventional outlook on the world."
-Jennifer A. Hall, Locus
Praise for Stepan Chapman's The Troika:
"The Troika is a cornucopia with a cutting edge... It has style, it has wit, it has guts and it has showmanship; what more could anyone want?"
-Brian Stableford
"Dali-esque in its crisp outlines, dreamtime logic and biomorphic weirdness... A forehead-smackingly original story-generating engine."
-Lance Olsen
"If you enjoy finely controlled absurdity, freewheeling invention pinned down with precisely detailed description, black humor, and language that is breathtakingly engaging, there is little more to be said except 'read this!'"
-Kathleen Ann Goonan
Bio: STEPAN CHAPMAN lives in Cottonwood, Arizona with his wife. He is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection Danger Music. His novel The Troika won the Phillip K. Dick award for best original science fiction paperback.
