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As promised, another subscription: Fiction

Here it goes with anther subscription: Fiction 2006 with a 2005 bonus in the form of Lydia Millet's Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, a 2004 bonus of Derek McCormick's The Haunted Hillbilly, and a 2003 bonus Matthew Sharpe's The Sleeping Father.

So here are the rides available with the purchase of a $100 Annual Pass to SoftSkullFictionLand...:

Branwell: A Novel of the Bronte Brother by Douglas Martin "[A] tender, tragic portrayal of a doomed artist..."—Publishers Weekly

Manstealing for Fat Girls
by Michelle Embree “[A]s real and relevant as anything Judy Blume has written.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers by Delia Falconer "A splendid and absobing novel"—Jim Harrison

Electric Flesh by Claro, translated by Brian Evenson. "It was for tour de force performances such as Electric Flesh that God created language and the Devil created style.” —Tom Robbins "This is an astonishing piece of delirious, supercharged prose."—Salman Rushdie

H20 by Mark Swartz. “A short, sharp shock—a jab to the eyeball and brain, H2O by Mark Swartz is a more telling commentary on our society now as Don DeLillo’s White Noise was in its time. Savagely precise, clever but not shallow, Swartz's writing lacerates even as it's deeply, disturbingly funny.”—Jeff VanderMeer

The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar. "I [do not] understand why Martin Millar isn't as celebrated as Kurt Vonnegut, as rich as Terry Pratchett, as famous as Douglas Adams...Read it now, and then make your friends buy their own copies. You'll thank me one day."—Neil Gaiman

American Genius by Lynne Tillman (her first novel since the 1998 NBCC finalist No Lease on Life!) “One of America's most challenging and adventurous writers.”—The Guardian

Under My Roof by Nick Mamatas. A wild fantasia wherein a 12-year-old telepath creates a nuclear device and overthrows the US government.

Tear Down the Mountain: An Appalachian Love Story by Roger Alan Skipper An epic love story set in modern day Appalachia that poignantly and pragmatically examines the economic, spiritual, and emotional costs of living with lack of opportunity.

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