Rambunctious

Rambunctious

A powerful and poignant collection of memorable stories from an award-winning storyteller, Rambunctious: Nine Tales of Determination is charming, action-packed, frightening, and thoughtful by turn.

A collection of nine previously published short stories by Rick Wilber, selected by the author to reflect his interest in characters who struggle to overcome adversity and move forward in their lives.

Features the Sidewise Award-winning “Something Real” and the recent “Today is Today,” a selection for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 2019 (Prime Books)

Rambunctious was published on March 25, 2020
Hardcover ISBN 978-1-68057-068-7
Trade paperback ISBN 978-1-68057-066-3
Ebook ISBN 978-1-68057-067-0
266 Pages

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Genres: Alternate History, Historical Fantasy, Science Fiction
Tag: Available in Jacketed Hardcover
ASIN: 1680570668
ISBN: 9781680570663
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Rick Wilber imparts reality, grit, clarity, and heart to every category of fiction that he chooses to write in: historical alternative-world science fiction, aliens-amongst-us narratives, stone-cold horror tales, metaphorically based ghost stories, allusive personal speculations, or barbed off-to-the-stars slices of future life. Every story in Rambunctious rattled my cage in an eye-opening, thought-provoking, or heart-stopping way. Each is a gift.
– Michael Bishop
Brilliantly crafted, fiercely real… Relentless and original, this is science fiction that matters now. Highly recommended.
– Julie E. Czerneda
Rick Wilber…tells you the truth, a quality that can be unsettling sometimes, but is never less than absolutely refreshing. Wilber knows how to do justice to the nuances of a complex story, and he deserves a huge readership.
– Peter Straub
Wilber…will exhilarate, startle, and dazzle you
– Michael Bishop
A major collection from what it's high past time to admit is one of our major writers. Wilber writes with literate flair, compassion, and a deep understanding of human psychology. Highly recommended!
– Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of The Oppenheimer Alternative
Rick Wilber writes with heart and soul. His stories transport us to other worlds and alternate realities and yet somehow bring us closer to home. He is a master weaver of wonder. You'll love this book!
– Nick DiChario, Hugo and World Fantasy nominated author of A Small and Remarkable Life
There is a timeless feel to these stories of insiders, outsiders, family loved and family lost... Rick Wilber writes with verve and heart.
– Richard Larson
Rick Wilber draws you in through his compassion for his characters and his keen eye for the familiar, and then he slips you sideways into places startlingly new, beautiful, and true. You finish these stories entertained, to be sure, but moved as well, and with your perspective forever widened.
– Gregory Norman Bossert, World Fantasy Award winning author
 Wilber’s voice (has) a kind of authority and compassion that have helped him carve out a niche identifiably his own.
– Locus Magazine
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About the Author
Rick Wilber

Rick Wilber has published a half-dozen novels and short-story collections, several college textbooks on writing and the mass media, a memoir about his father’s life in baseball, and more than fifty short stories in major markets, including the Sidewise Award winning “Something Real,” and the poignant “Today is Today,” reprinted in the Best Science Fiction of 2019 (Prime Books, 2019) edited by Rich Horton. Both stories and seven more tales of determination are in this collection.

Wilber is the editor of several reprint anthologies, including Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural, Future Media, and Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories, among others.
Wilber’s novel, Alien Morning, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2016, and the sequel, Alien Day: Notes from Holmanville, will be out in 2020.

The son of a major-league baseball player and coach, and a three-sport college scholarship athlete himself, Wilber often incorporates sports into his fiction. He is the father of a Down syndrome son and often incorporates the disabled in his fiction, as well. He is a Visiting Professor in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, and he is he co-founder and co-judge with Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Editor Sheila Williams of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing, awarded annually at the International Conference on the Fantastic in Orlando, Florida.

He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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