Some fifteen years after John Dower’s near-mandatory
Embracing Defeat, David Pilling
brings us Bending Adversity, the next
installment of the Manipulating Negativity series on The State of Japan. I’m happy
to announce that I’m slated to write the final volume of the trilogy some time
in 2029, to be titled Pity-Fucking Decrepitude.
I’m a winner baby! Well, runner-up at
least. If you’re at all interested in speculative fiction then you should be
aware of the fine pair who run pornokitsch, and occasionally edit short story
collections such as this under the Pandemonium umbrella. I made a mildly
amusing comment on a competition blogpost a while back and this ebook was my reward.