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Metamorph
Jack Land and Clara Nolan are asked to look into the appearance of people's “duplicates”—“duplicates” who take things into their own hands—
—Like the President's double beating a kid to death in a parking lot, or
—What looked like the upstanding citizen being a public pervert, or
—Blake Blaine, Hollywood sociopath de jour, apparently in a dozen different places when he murdered his dog.
FAKE NEWS is filling the internet.
Wherever Jack and Clara turn, the landscape of reality is starting to shift. Ordinary people across the country are seeing their loved ones commit horrible crimes—and some are taking revenge.
Then it goes international.
72,000 words
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID —
John Brunner, the legend himself : “Wayne Wightman is agreeable company, both in person and via the printed page. As to the former, I’m afraid you will have to wait the chance to make his acquaintance…. As to the latter, however, now’s your chance.”
Orson Scott Card, Hugo and Nebula “[Wayne Wightman is] …one of the names I[‘ve] learned to look for…. He…is a romantic whose stories confess his belief that individuals can be larger than life, that their decisions can change the world around them.”
Best Story of the Year 2011 awarded to Wayne Wightman's “Brutal Interlude” by Orson Scott Card's online magazine The Intergalactic Medicine Show.
Richard Paul Russo, Philip K. Dick Award “One of Wightman’s great strengths is his willingness to go to the edge. He pulls no punches, whether the story is serious or violent or manic. You can count on him to take you places other writers shy away from.”
—Like the President's double beating a kid to death in a parking lot, or
—What looked like the upstanding citizen being a public pervert, or
—Blake Blaine, Hollywood sociopath de jour, apparently in a dozen different places when he murdered his dog.
FAKE NEWS is filling the internet.
Wherever Jack and Clara turn, the landscape of reality is starting to shift. Ordinary people across the country are seeing their loved ones commit horrible crimes—and some are taking revenge.
Then it goes international.
72,000 words
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID —
John Brunner, the legend himself : “Wayne Wightman is agreeable company, both in person and via the printed page. As to the former, I’m afraid you will have to wait the chance to make his acquaintance…. As to the latter, however, now’s your chance.”
Orson Scott Card, Hugo and Nebula “[Wayne Wightman is] …one of the names I[‘ve] learned to look for…. He…is a romantic whose stories confess his belief that individuals can be larger than life, that their decisions can change the world around them.”
Best Story of the Year 2011 awarded to Wayne Wightman's “Brutal Interlude” by Orson Scott Card's online magazine The Intergalactic Medicine Show.
Richard Paul Russo, Philip K. Dick Award “One of Wightman’s great strengths is his willingness to go to the edge. He pulls no punches, whether the story is serious or violent or manic. You can count on him to take you places other writers shy away from.”
297 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 21, 2012
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