“Remembrance of the future, dystopian road trips, a touch
of Dali, and so much more. Our premier sci-fi-poet-sorcerer
conjures up the miraculous once again.”
--- G. O. Clark
Asimov’s Readers’ Award Winner, author of Bone Sprockets
Shades Fantastic is a 52-page chapbook of SF, horror,
fantasy, surreal, and mainstream poems, including five originals, and 32 reprints from Asimov's SF, Strange Horizons, The Pedestal Magazine, Dark Wisdom, Dreams
and Nightmares, Raven Electrick, Flashquake, Talebones,
and other genre and literary publications.
“This remarkable assembly of poems crowds all the boundaries, spilling past science fiction and fantasy into what some
people think is the real world. Boston fuels his poetry with
insights into science, art, and music that flow on a
bright stream of imagination and sense of wonder.”
--- Joe Haldeman
Nebula Award Winner, author of Camouflage
Half of the total sales revenues from Shades Fantastic are being donated to the Rhysling Endowment Fund of the
“A damned fine gathering. Weighty. As you peer into its facets,
where the torched ruins of memory flicker with a dark fire,
nearly every poem seems to be the central work.
Boston exhibits a stoned blind love of the fantastic.”
--- Robert Frazier
SFPA Grand Master Poet, author of The Daily Chernobyl
and the 2005 Asimov's Readers' Award winner
"Heavy Weather"
“Shades Fantastic is a page turner of a poetry collection,
where elegy is allowed to consort with absurdity.
Boston’s words depart as the very birds of startlement.”
--- Andrew Joron
Gertrude Stein Award Winner, author of Fathom