Most Excellent and Lamentable

Enter the strange mind of Jason Erik Lundberg, hailed by The Guardian for "achieving emotionally resonant effects within just a few pages". Let his imagination introduce you to an unearthly star girl, a foul-mouthed wombat, slithering immortals, a fish with premonitions, and much more. These short stories, painstakingly selected from Lundberg's first three collections, include a brand-new novelette-"Slowly Slowly Slowly" takes place in a future Singapore where an old folks' home takes the form of an actual zoo-and the author's preferred texts of "The Stargirl and the Potter" and "Ikan Berbudi (Wise Fish)".

Auteur
Jason Erik Lundberg is the author and anthologist of over twenty books, including Red Dot Irreal (2011), The Alchemy of Happiness (2012), Fish Eats Lion (2012), Strange Mammals (2013), Embracing the Strange (2013), the six-book Bo Bo and Cha Cha children's picture book series (20122015), Carol the Coral (2016), and the biennial Best New Singaporean Short Stories anthology series (est. 2013). He is also the founding editor of LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Fiction (20122018), and a recipient of the 2013 Creation Grant from Singapore's National Arts Council. His writing has been anthologised widely, shortlisted for multiple awards, and honourably mentioned twice in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.