Over the course of his career, Jack Cady won the Bram Stoker Award, the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, a special award from the International Horror Guild, the Atlantic Monthly "First" award, the Iowa Prize for Short Fiction, the National Library Anthology Award, and the Washington State Governor's Award. Cady's keen and profound insight into the collective psyche of the modern worldboth from a narrative standpoint and from a critical cultural analysisare captured in this collection.
Fathoms includes his Nebula Award and Bram Stoker Award winning novella, "The Night We Buried Road Dog," as well as his lengthy non-fiction piece, "Some Remarks on the Literature of War," a reflection on his childhood influences ("Halloween 1942"), and a story that visits the world of our imaginary childhood friends ("A Poet in the School"). To Jack Cady, the world is much like a deep ocean, filled with dreams and nightmares. His stories never lose sight of the marvelous mystery of the fantastic.
Industry Reviews
Won the Bram Stoker Award in 1993, the Nebula Award in 1994, and the Hugo Award in 1994 for his novella, The Night We Buried Road Dog. This story was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 1994 Won the World Fantasy Award in 1993 for his collection The Sons of Noah and Other Stories Received a special International Horror Guild Award in 2003 Received a special Philip K. Dick Award for Inagehi in 1995 Nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the Best Collection category in both 1994 and 2004 "It takes no special critical powers to recognize in Cady an exceptional writer, who is not just promising but has already achieved some remarkable feats." -- Joyce Carol Oates on The Burning, Cady's first short fiction collection "Jack Cady is above all, a writer of great, unmistakable integrity and profound feeling ... Jack Cady's voice is a voice we need to hear." -- Peter Straub "Engrossing ... the icy descriptions are vivid and chilling." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review on The Jonah Watch "For more than 30 years, Cady has been one of America's great chroniclers of characters and place." -- Publishers Weekly "Jack Cady is a born storyteller ... A lasting voice in modern American literature." -- The Atlanta Constitution "Jack Cady's knack for golden sentences is an alchemy any other writer has to admire." -- Ivan Doig "A pungent mix of Tom Robbins, Ray Bradbury, and Charles G. Finlay--but pure Cady, and it's glorious!" -- Greg Bear on The Off Season "A consummate yarn, told with many digressions and anecdotes that combine with folksy humor to create a tall tale suffused with pathos and melancholy." -- The Seattle Times on The Off Season