Transported
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781869792251
  • Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

Transported

Short Stories

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Funny, moving, insightful, these stories are, above all, delightfully different.

Funny, moving, insightful, these stories are, above all, delightfully different.

A well-known poet pursues his elusive muse; a Kiwi makes himself indispensable in OZ; a revolutionary fast-food franchise revs up Russia's economy; a racing-car driver is airborne; a Frenchman called Foucault puts in the hard yards at an antipodean dairy farm - all while water laps at our feet, our homes, our lives . . .
With Tim Jones' stories you should expect the unexpected. This remarkably refreshing collection uses a lively mix of genres, taking readers on flights of fancy, transports of delight and even occasional trips of nostalgia. Some of the stories are unique ways of looking at the everyday and ordinary, others take us out of this world.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781869792251
  • Imprint: RHNZ Adult ebooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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About the author

Tim Jones

Tim Jones has published several volumes of short stories, a novel and several volumes of poetry. He is a writer, editor, web content manager, anthologist, husband, father, political activist, and lover of cricket, music and many other fine things. In 2010 he won Best Collected Work in the 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Awards (with Mark Pirie), and the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature. Transported was longlisted for the 2008 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award.

His short story collection Transported was noted for its ‘originality, gentle humour and sheer variety’ (Southland Times), and his style was described as ‘dazzling and highly entertaining’ (New Zealand Books). With the collection covering a variety of genres — science fiction, comedy and satire —the Nelson Mail concluded ‘Jones’s bag of literary tricks is witty and refreshingly humorous’.
Mike Crowl, of Bookstove.com, found Transported is ‘a pleasant surprise’: ‘None of the tales have that kind of super-seriousness about them that’s typical of NZ short stories. Instead, they’re an intriguing mix of tongue-in-cheek, subtle humour, history turned inside out, and sci-fi.’

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Praise for Transported

dazzling and highly entertaining

Isa Moynihan, New Zealand Books

I read Jones's first story, Rat Up a Drainpipe, and couldn't put it down. I laughed out loud, and felt unusually good. It was fast paced and full of quirky incidents. When it ended I wanted more. Typical of Jones, Transported crosses genres. There's science fiction, comedy and satire, and even a few tales involving global warming. The Wadestone [sic] Shore has Pete rowing around a drowned Wellington foreshore between high-rise buildings, trawling for treasures. The seat of government has moved to Taupo. You have to laugh, but should we? Jones's bag of literary tricks is witty and refreshingly humorous. He's not new to the literary scene, but with Transported, his second short story collection, he will not linger in the background again. Bring it on, Tim Jones!

Jessica Le Bas, Nelson Mail

originality, gentle humour and sheer variety

Rosemarie Smith, Southland Times

Tim Jones' Transported is a pleasant surprise. None of the tales have that kind of super-seriousness about them that's typical of NZ short stories. Instead, they're an intriguing mix of tongue-in-cheek, subtle humour, history turned inside out, and sci-fi

Mike Crowl, Bookstove.com