Mildred Clingerman (1918-1997)
Mildred McElroy Clingerman was born in Allen, Oklahoma on March 14, 1918, and moved with her mother and sister to Tucson in 1929. She was a graduate of Tucson High School and attended the University of Arizona. She married Stuart Clingerman in 1937. Mrs. Clingerman was well-known as a fantasy and science fiction writer, and was widely published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, as well as Good Housekeeping and Colliers. In 1960 she published a paperback edition of her short stories entitled A Cupful of Space. Her stories have also been in several anthologies, including literature textbooks for middle and high school students. Mrs. Clingerman was a charter member and a founder of the Tucson Writer's Club. She was also active in the Tucson Press Club, serving several terms on its Board of Directors. Mrs. Clingerman passed away in 1997.
Widely acclaimed as one of the first successful female science fiction authors, Mildred Clingerman returns with the exciting follow up to her 1961 science fiction collection, A Cupful of Space. Her stories tend to wed a literate tone to subject matters whose ominousness is perhaps more submerged than the horrors under the skin made explicit in the work of Shirley Jackson, but equally as deadly.
Clingerman's new anthology, The Clingerman Files, includes all of her originally published stories; The Day of the Green Velvet Cloak, Mr. Sakrison's Halt, Wild Wood, The Little Witch of Elm Street and many other favourites. Also included are previously unpublished works; Top Hand, Tribal Customs, The Birthday Party, Fathers of Daughters and many more soon to be favourites. The key to her stories is that they appear simple and straightforward, but each takes a twist or turn that, even when you're tempted to guess where they're heading, they take you there in a way you would never have bargained on.
Other writers of the period tried to make big splashes. Clingerman, it seems, prided herself in concealing her effects within her masterfully constructed sentences. They barely make a ripple on the surface; all their power and drive lurk deep down below. So many of her stories are alive with the underpinning notion that the cosmological vistas we spy at the end ends of telescopes and various other means of measurement belong to the very same universe under our feet. We're not apart from the universe, we're a part of it. Nearly every story here is alive with that sensibility, in the truest sense of that word. In every sentence there is a note (a gentle one, but insistent) of silent rebellion, a surreptitious snarl, entreating you to see that not the everyday, but an undiscovered marvel.
May these eloquent rebellions be undiscovered no longer.
Título : The Clingerman Files
EAN : 9781473226371
Editorial : Orion
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