Anthems Outside Time: and Other Strange Voices is a collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories by American writer Kenneth Schneyer.
[1] The book collects twenty-six short works of fiction by the author, most originally published in various genre magazines, anthologies and podcasts, together with an introduction by Mike Allen.
The reviewer singles out "Keeping Tabs" ("emotional"), "Dispersion" ("intimate ... unsettling"), "The Plausibility of Dragons," "The Last Bombardment" ("chilling"), and "Life of the Author Plus Seventy" ("satirical") for particular comment.
Ken Schneyer's Anthems Outside Time and Other Strange Voices includes such first-rate reprints as the Nebula- and Sturgeon-nominated "Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer," and my personal favorite among his works, "Keepsakes."
Rich Horton in Locus praises the publisher, Fairwood Press, for "[o]nce again ... doing us an excellent service by collecting short fiction from one of our quietly accomplished writers."
A "striking reified metaphor for the process of memory loss" highlights "Dispersions," while the "clever and quite effective" device of exploring the horrifying story of an oppressed people through that of its deceased hero characterizes "Who Embodied What We Are.