Bruce Boston

The Nightmare Collection

Bruce Boston

• 2008 Stoker–Poetry winner
• Score: 10.58

The Nightmare Collection is a brand new poetry collection from the Bram Stoker Award winning poet of Pitchblende, and Shades Fantastic. The prolific SFPA Grandmaster brings us sixty poems collected from places like Asimov’s SF Magazine, Dark Wisdom, Strange Horizons, Talebones, Weird Tales, and includes new works as well.

Shades Fantastic

Bruce Boston

• 2006 Stoker–Poetry winner
• Score: 10.56

Bruce Boston’s poetry collection contains 37 works, including the winner of the 2005 Asimov’s Readers’Award, “Heavy Weather”, and five poems that are appearing for the first time anywhere. Boston’s powerful, sweeping creations are enhanced by black and white illustrations by the award-winning Marge Simon.

Pitchblende

Bruce Boston

• 2003 Stoker–Poetry winner
• Score: 10.53

Pitchblend by Bruce Boston collects thirty-two new and previously published poems. Selected and with an Introduction by Michael Arnzen. Illustrated by Marge Simon.

Poems included are “Flesh Bone Blood,” “The Lesions of Genetic Sin,” “Like an Addict Glowing,” “Alien Quarry,” “Pavane for a Cyber-Princess,” “The Canticles of Rage,” “In Far Pale Clarity,” “Ghost Blood,” “The Prince Comes in Velvet,” “She Was There for Him the Last Time,” and twenty-two other poems.

“…Pitchblende is radioactive. It’s a mineralized form of uranium oxide-black and hard and dangerous. It looks something like crystallized coal cracked right out of the gates of hell; it’s darker than tar and stronger than time and its lethal nature is sneaky and invisible and inescapable once you’ve touched it. Killer rock.

A fitting metaphor for the rock solid poetry of Bruce Boston. It’s scary, powerful stuff. And it’s got a half-life that will outlive you. This poetry stands the test of time…” From the introduction by Michael Arnzen

Double Visions

Bruce Boston

• 2009 Stoker–Poetry nominee
• Score: 6.59

In Double Visions, SFPA Grandmaster Poet Bruce Boston collaborates with ten other poets, including fellow Grandmaster Robert Frazier, Bram Stoker Award winner Marge Simon and Asimov’s Readers’ Award winner G.O. Clark. Includes seven Rhysling nominees, the winner of the Odyssey Poetry Award, and the winner of the Locus Online Poetry Poll for best All-Time SF, Fantasy, or Horror poem.

“Double Visions explores and articulates the alien countryside that lies just behind the facade of ordinary existence and examines the elusive, fleeting shadows where fundamental truths reside. I came away from this collection with an enhanced appreciation for the richness, strangeness, horror, delight, and utter beauty of our kind’s brief sojourn in the cosmos.”—from the introduction by J.L. Comeau

North Left of Earth

Bruce Boston

• 2009 Stoker–Poetry nominee
• Score: 6.59

From mutations of our own world, to life on other planets, to journeys through the depths of space, travel with SFPA Grandmaster Poet Bruce Boston as he explores realms North Left of Earth.

“These are the poems of an older, wiser poet who has visited the future and come back to tell all. With insight and dark humor he shares his fantastical encounters with aliens and humans alike, providing in the end a scrapbook full of truly amazing memories. Boston is at the top of his game in North Left Of Earth.” —G. O. Clark, author of Strange Vegetables

“North Left of Earth proves once again that Bruce Boston is our great living master of speculative poetry. Poems like his ‘…People’ series and ‘Future Texts’ show with what perfect pitch he manages to blend the sometimes very different melodies of science fiction and poetry. Phenomenal work—and very enjoyable reads, too.” —Howard V. Hendrix, author of Spears of God

The Guardener's Tale

Bruce Boston

• 2007 Stoker–Novel nominee
• Score: 6.57

“A gripping dystopia wickedly extrapolated from our present. Boston brings to bear his narrative genius on this noir tale of a love triange in a society gone mad, probing the way technology and science alter our reality. Transcending genre, ”The Guardener’s Tale" combines suspense and breathtaking plot twists with macabre humor. Involving, compelling, a masterwork.“—Mary Turzillo, author of ”An Old-Fashioned Martian Girl"

Night Smoke

Bruce Boston

• 2002 Stoker–Poetry nominee
• Score: 6.52

 

White Space

Bruce Boston

• 2001 Stoker–Poetry nominee
• Score: 6.51

White Space brings together 38 previously uncollected poems, including ten originals, four Rhysling Award nominees, and the 2001 Rhysling Winner (Science Fiction Poetry Association) for the best short poem of the year, “My Wife Returns As She Would Have It,” reprinted from Asimov’s Science Fiction.

The Complete Accursed Wives

Bruce Boston

• 2000 Stoker–Poetry nominee
• Score: 6.5

Five short stories and 35 poems reprinted from the pages of Asimov's SF, Amazing, Weird Tales, SF Age and other leading genre publications. Includes winners of the Asimov Readers Choice Award and the Best of Soft SF Award. Five original illustrations by Allen Koszowski.