Back in 2014, I considered pulling together a collection of all the homages I’d written under the influence of my betters, and four years later, thanks to Steve Berman of Lethe Press, who was equally as taken with the idea as I was, it finally happened.
Tell Me Like You Done Before (and Other Stories Written on the Shoulders of Giants) contains 16 stories which honor the master storytellers which made me me, including John Steinbeck, Alice Sheldon, Ray Bradbury, and many others, some of whom can be seen on the cover by Mathew Soffee.
Publishers Weekly wrote of my new collection: “At his best, Edelman is not just clever but genuinely thought-provoking about how fiction works—and what readers do. … Thoughtful readers of horror and SF will find Edelman’s ingenious work well worth digging into.”
Paul Di Filippo wrote of this new collection in Locus: “Edelman exhibits a keen eye for all the requisites of good fiction: deep characterization, sharp pacing, micromachined prose. And at the throbbing core of each story is not some mere impulse to show off one’s chops or prove just how widely one has read, but rather a taut, impactful human dilemma, often revolving around the frustrations of love or career.”