The Amount to Carry
In this collection of twelve stories, Carter Scholz reveals his truly remarkable range and prodigious narrative gifts. Traveling from the surface of the moon to the New Jersey suburbs, they explore the places in the human mind where science and fiction merge. Here are stories that disturb the universe, probe the worlds we call home, and measure the degrees of our alienation. Mind-expanding, entertaining, and often richly disquieting, the stories in The Amount to Carry are bravura performances of the imagination.
Contents:
- The Eve of the Last Apollo
- A Catastrophe Machine
- Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor
- The Menagerie of Babel
- A Draft of Canto CI
- Altamira
- Travels
- At the Shore
- The Nine Billion Names of God
- Invisible Ink
- Mengele's Jew
- The Amount to Carry
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Carter Scholz
Carter Scholz (né Robert Carter Scholz, born 1953) is a speculative fiction author and composer of music. He has published several works of short fiction (collected in The Amount to Carry 2004) and two novels (Palimpsests 1984, with Glenn Harcourt; Radiance: A Novel 2002). He has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Novelette. He also co-wrote The New Twilight Zone episode A Small Talent for War and contributed stories to Kafka Americana.
Scholz grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey and graduated from Tenafly High School in 1971. He also attended Rhode Island School of Design.
He is married and lives in California.
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