Ken Poyner: 5 books

Forty-two exotic, unique, and brazen short fictions. Amusing, thought provoking, eerie. Collected from touchstone webzines and magazines across the literary spectrum. A different perspective. Life, as explained by your holographic half uncle; life, seen through misproportioned and curmudgeonly eyes. How one's day might go in a different dimension.

Carnivorous butterflies; a guild of deconstruction workers who feel unappreciated; the un-feathered desire lurking within a poultry farmer; nurturing the love of possession after death; what your faithful closet monster might be doing while you are away; the finer points of living to two hundred;...

Speculative poetry describing surreal interactions between the individual and his or her society. A man who is a novelty because he is always on fire. A boy who can summon snakes. A man who feels a connection to the wolf at his door. A daughter who is turning into a mule. An alcoholic town that refuses...

Fifty-five short, provocative fictions, previously published separately in more than two dozen literary magazines and sites, A young woman dating an insect. Houses that migrate, forcing their owners to introduce themselves to neighbors. A man confronting mammoth rustlers. A village that builds its...

Speculative poetry exploring the development of emotion and the sense of self in robots. Description of the intersection between human and machine in modern free verse. Self-image, political will, the sense of community, the sense of loneliness. Individually, poems have appeared in “Analog”, “Asimov’s”,...