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Scott Bradfield

Author of The History of Luminous Motion

35+ Works 627 Members 12 Reviews 4 Favorited

About the Author

Scott Bradfield is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Works by Scott Bradfield

The History of Luminous Motion (1989) 298 copies
Dream of the Wolf: Stories (1990) 53 copies
Animal Planet (1995) 50 copies
What's Wrong With America (1994) 46 copies
Greetings from Earth: New and Collected Stories (1993) 45 copies
The People Who Watched Her Pass By (2010) 33 copies
Good Girl Wants It Bad: A Novel (2004) 23 copies
The Secret Life of Houses (1988) 18 copies
Hot Animal Love: Tales of Modern Romance (2005) 11 copies
Dazzle Resplendent: adventures of a misanthropic dog (2017) 4 copies
Confessions of an Unrepentant Short Story Writer 3 copies
Unmistakably the Finest (Short story) 3 copies
Animals Behind Bars! [short fiction] 3 copies
The Darling [short fiction] 3 copies
The dream of the wolf [short fiction] 3 copies
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Associated Works

Black Heart, Ivory Bones (2000) — Contributor — 692 copies
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) — Contributor — 483 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (1991) — Contributor — 310 copies
Sympathy for the Devil (2010) — Contributor — 285 copies
The New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic Fiction (1991) — Contributor — 259 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (1996) — Contributor — 240 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993) — Contributor — 209 copies
Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex (1996) — Contributor — 207 copies
Year's Best Fantasy (2001) — Contributor — 207 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (1987) — Contributor — 199 copies
The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men (1994) — Contributor — 164 copies
Interzone: The 1st Anthology (1985) — Author — 73 copies
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories: Terrifying Tales Set on the Scariest Night of the Year! (2018) — Contributor — 65 copies
Interzone: The 2nd Anthology (1987) — Contributor — 62 copies
Tarot Tales (1989) — Contributor — 61 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 11 (1985) — Contributor — 61 copies
In Dreams (1992) — Contributor — 52 copies
Protostars (1971) — Contributor — 45 copies
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare: 30 Terrifying Tales (1993) — Contributor — 45 copies
Other Edens 2 (1988) — Contributor — 39 copies
Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead (2017) — Contributor — 35 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 2003, Vol. 105, No. 2 (2003) — Author — 16 copies
Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute (2006) — Contributor — 13 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 2005, Vol. 109, No. 1 (2005) 11 copies
Black Clock 10 (2009) — Contributor — 2 copies
Already Among Us (2012) — Contributor — 2 copies

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The People Who Watched Her Pass By by Scott Bradfield
Filled with wonderful metaphors and general creepiness.
 
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viviennestrauss | 4 other reviews | May 25, 2021 |
 
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stravinsky | 1 other review | Dec 28, 2020 |
The History of Luminous Motion by Scott Bradfield
Poetic and haunting, but ultimately not a book I'd recommend to anyone - I only give it three stars because it is well written. However, I could not imagine an eight year old kid who was as intelligent as our narrator actually acting out his Oedipal urges in this way and his 12 year old friend who is a Marxist is just a bit over the top for me. If the kid had anything else besides a good vocabulary going for him, perhaps I would have had more empathy for him, but as a narrator he was totally unlikable.… (more)
 
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Works
35
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Rating
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Reviews
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