* Days of Stone, (vi) Fantastic Jan 1979.* A Cold Day in the Mesozoic, (ss) Fears, ed.The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural, ed.Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (1979), ed.* Among the Mountains, (nv) A World Named Cleopatra, ed.
* Amnesia, (nv) The Berkley Showcase Vol.* One of Our Planets Is Missing, (sa) Star Trek Log #1, Ballantine 1974, as by Alan Dean Foster screenplay by Marc Daniels.ĭANN, JACK (Mayo) (1945- ) (about) (books) (chron.).* A Form That Fetters, (ss) Other Worlds #2, ed.Robert Scott Wilson, Signet 1972ĭANIELS, KEITH ALLEN (1956-2001) (about) (chron.) * Winter Housecleaning, (ss) Clarion II, ed.Previous Author Index Table-of-Contents necessary.Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
The Holocaust was so terrible, so far on the edges of comprehension, so surreal, so psychologically cyclonic and horrific in dimension and effect that perhaps it might best be glimpsed through the reflections of metaphor and fantasy.ĭann answers the historian Hayden White’s call to revise our notion of what constitutes realistic representation in order “to take account of experiences that are unique to our century and for which older modes of representation have proven inadequate.” And given the historical amnesia that seems to characterize our time, a work such as this is also. Concentration is nothing less than an attempt to describe the indescribable. In his new short-story collection Concentration, Dann enlists the techniques of fabulation to illuminate one of the defining events in human history: the Nazi Holocaust.Īuthor and critic Marleen Barr has written that “Dann is a Faulkner and a Márquez for Jews” and Concentration is a testament to that claim, for these confronting and thoughtprovoking stories are written from a perspective rarely seen in literature.
JACK DANN’S groundbreaking anthologies Wandering Stars and More Wandering Stars used the tropes of science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism to ask-and try to answer!-what it means to be a Jew.
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