Books by Michael Cisco
Michael Cisco is a writer and academic living in New York. He is the author of many
novels and works of short fiction, including the award-winning The Divinity Student, and
Pest. His academic non-fiction includes Weird Fiction: A Genre Study.
“Pest centres around a character named Chalo, who leads a double life, or maybe multiple lives over different incarnations. On the one hand, he’s a very large civil engineer from Southern California, born in Bangladesh; but either before or after that life or concurrent with it, he’s also a wild Tibetan Yak. So we switch back and forth between his human life and his yak life. In his yak life, the main plot line involves the impending rut and how he’s going to deal with that. In his human life, he’s been asked by a very Californian guru-wizard-sage type to design and help construct a campus on Catalina Island, which is just off the coast of Southern California, where he prophesies that something is going to come and visit Earth.” Read more...
Interviews with Michael Cisco
The Best Weird Fiction Books, recommended by Michael Cisco
Weird fiction uses the supernatural to throw all our experience into doubt, says author and academic Michael Cisco. He introduces us to five favourites, featuring everything from ghosts to fairies to cults – all subtly constructed, infused with real human feeling, and calculated to perturb.
Interviews where books by Michael Cisco were recommended
The Best Weird Fiction Books, recommended by Michael Cisco
Weird fiction uses the supernatural to throw all our experience into doubt, says author and academic Michael Cisco. He introduces us to five favourites, featuring everything from ghosts to fairies to cults – all subtly constructed, infused with real human feeling, and calculated to perturb.
