Our Colony Beyond the City of Ruins - Janalyn Guo

Praise for Our Colony Beyond the City of Ruins

Our Colony Beyond the City of Ruins is an absolute delight, a wild collection that unsettles as much as it entertains. Guo shows an impressive range and deep emotional intelligence—this is a rare book of both strangeness and heart.

~ KELLY LUCE

Reading Janalyn Guo’s stories is like looking at a Leonora Carrington painting; the neat, precise strokes of her language draw us into the surreal logic of her tender-hearted, fiercely imaginative, deliriously inventive tales. This collection, vivid and strange, transports us to a magical world beyond our wildest dreams.

~ AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI

These stories take the gestures of new wave fabulism and make it newer and even more wavy, by being genuinely international. Here’s a book that shivers with possibility and wonder and surprise, where plants grow from people’s bodies, where ghosts exist even before someone is dead. Guo isn’t afraid to take on even the thoroughly weird in the most delightful way. This is what it’s like to see a genre revivified.

~ BRIAN EVENSON