The Lion and the Aardvark

Aesop’s Modern Fables

The Lion and the Aardvark CoverThese confusing times of Internet trolls, one-percenters, toxic fame, and impending singularity cry out for clarity—the clarity found in Aesop’s 2,500 year old fables.

70 writers from across the creative spectrum bring their modern sensibilities to this classic format. Zombies, dog-men and robot wasps mingle with cats, coyotes and cockroaches. Parables ranging from the punchy to the evocative, the wry to the disturbing, explore eternal human foibles, as displaced onto lemmings, trout, and racing cars. But beware — in these terse explorations of desire, envy, and power, certitude isn’t always as clear as it looks.

The Lion and the Aardvark is edited by Robin D. Laws and published by Stone Skin Press.

Very fine authors include:

Robert Jackson Bennett
Jason L. Blair
Jesse Bullington
Jim Demonakos
Ray Fawkes
Matt Forbeck
Ed Greenwood
Dave Gross
Taniah Hershman
Jonathan L. Howard
Stephen Graham Jones
John Kovalic
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Adam Marek
Sandy Petersen
JT Petty
Wena Poon
Richard Scarsbrook
Ekaterina Sedia
Greg Stafford
Monica Valentinelli
Chuck Wendig
Jim Zubkavich
…and more!

March 20, 2013

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Monica Valentinelli is an author, artist, and narrative designer who writes about magic, mystery, and mayhem. Her portfolio includes stories, games, comics, essays, and pop culture books.

In addition to her own worlds, she has worked on a number of different properties including Vampire: the Masquerade, Shadowrun, Hunter: the Vigil, Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn, and Robert E. Howard’s Conan.

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