The Postmodern Mariner is the title of a 2008 collection of short fiction by Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

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Writer

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 Rhys Hughes

Rhys Hughes

Rhys Henry Hughes , is a Welsh writer and essayist.Born in Cardiff, Hughes is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences, which include Italo Calvino, Milorad Pavić, Jorge Luis Borges, Stanisław Lem, Flann O'Brien, Felipe Alfau, Donald Barthelme and Jack Vance...

. The book features eight short stories and one novella that are thematically linked in such a way that the book has a novelistic structure. The first seven stories feature Castor Jenkins and are examples of the 'Club Tale' sub-genre of imaginative fiction.

The contents of the book are as follows:

Part One, Castor Jenkins, the Münchhausen of Porthcawl

• Castor on Troubled Waters
• Canis Raver
• The Plucked Plant
• When Wales Played Asgård
• Interstellar Domestic
• The Cream-Jest of Unset Custard
• The Day the Town of Porthcawl was Accidentally Twinned with the Capital of the Cheese and Biscuits Empire

Part Two, Piper at the Fates of Ooze

• The Lip Service

Part Three, The Postmodern Mariner in Person

• Rommel Cobra's Swimming Carnival

External links

• Postmodern mariner blog
• Profile at Fantastic Fiction
• Review of Postmodern Mariner (by Terry Grimwood
  Terry Grimwood
  Terry Grimwood is a British writer of horror and science fiction. He publishes The Exaggerated Press. He has written and directed three plays, and is married to the poet Jessica Lawrence.-Books:...
  
   in The Future Fire
  The Future Fire
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