The cities fight back with flame and chemical warfare. The people who live within the forest itself are no longer human. Some humans survive at the jungle’s ever hungry and expanding frontier their existence is precarious. The only laws governing the changes appear to be chaos and rage. It and everything in it mutates wildly, incessantly. In an undefined future, the rain forest has taken on a grotesquely beautiful life.
Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest eBook categories: Soon we were trading stanzas to ‘Return to the Mutant Rain Forest,’ which proved to have considerable legs, and, more importantly, became the kick-start to a growing series.” I had previously explored their collision in two poems for Asimov’s SF and Amazing Stories, but Bruce insisted there were rich poetic possibilities still to be mined. He liked the milieu: mutation and the jungle. I sent him a cautionary tale of a mutated creature from the waters of the Amazon. Robert Frazier: “In the mid-eighties, Bruce asked me for a story for Berkeley Poets Cooperative. Q: How did you two come up with the idea for this science fiction epic? It was more than twenty-years in the making.” Q: What makes this collection so special?īruce Boston: “Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest was written by the first two Grandmasters of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing – Tales from the Darkest Depths Ěerial Reconnaissance of a Conflagration….Ě Trader on the Border of the Mutant Rain Forest.Holos at an Exhibition of the Mutant Rain Forest.Visions of the Mutant Rain Forest collects the best stories and poems from this world: two novelettes, four short stories, two flash fictions (nearly 40,000 words of fiction), and 38 poems, including two stories and five poems appearing here for the first time. Their collaborative poem “Return to the Mutant Rain Forest” received first place in the 2006 Locus Poll for All-Time Favorite Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror Poem. In the mutant rain forest it’s adapt or be redacted. Martin’s), Year’s Best Horror (DAW), The Rhysling Anthology, and many other publications. Since that time, stories and/or poems set in the Mutant Rain Forest have appeared in Omni, Asimov’s SF Magazine, Amazing Stories, Weird Tales, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Robert Frazier and Bruce Boston, SFPA’s first two Grandmaster Poets, created and began exploring the Mutant Rain Forest in the late 1980s with both collaborative and solo works. Since that time, stories and/or poems set in the Mutant Rain Forest have appeared in Omni, Asimov’s SF Magazine, Amazing Stories, W The Mutant Rain Forest is nature's revenge upon man's despoliation. The Mutant Rain Forest is nature's revenge upon man's despoliation.