Stuff As Dreams

<p>Science Fantasy is that middle ground between Science Fiction and Fantasy where the author provides credence for Elves and Werewolves and a moral compass for the Ventures of Technology.  Extrapolation can be used not only to see where the future might be going but where the past might have gone; and at right angles to whatever is left and right  both dark and light both serious and comic and in the middle of the road both at the same time.</p><p>The short story is a peculiarly American form and at its best a kind of novel told in a single gesture.  The short stories of Jon DeCles are wide-ranging in style and subject matter and in this selection there is sure to be something for everyone: and more an impetus to seek out in magazines and anthologies his many other deeply human and highly imaginative stories of what might be.</p>