Most Excellent and Lamentable

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<p>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.<br/><br/>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)”.</p>

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

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