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vid · 08-25-2014

If we're still submitting stuff:

Andrew Kaufman, a somewhat underground Canadian author, known for "All My Friends Are Superheroes", wrote "The Tiny Wife," about the people whose souls were partially stolen by a thief, causing weird stuff to happen based on problems in their lives. Off of a husband turning into a snowman and a wife turning into candy (she's eaten), the main focus is on the narrator's wife who, because she's neglected, begins to physically shrink in size. It weaves in and out of the other stories so there's no direct process, but it's slow and details her at different sizes, from a few inches shorter, then smaller than her infant son, to only a few inches tall where she rides in her husband's shirt pocket, among other things. The major problem is that it's not overly detailed and only spends 2-3 pages on her at a time throughout the entire 88 page run.

Kaufman only seems to have a cult following and doesn't seem widely known, but when I checked this out after randomly hearing about it every single reviewer was absolutely in love with it. He said once that, as a screenwriter, he was hoping to get a movie made but no news of it. A few of us over at Minimizer's discussed it and agree it would make a damn good live-action SW, almost like a perfect "ISW" we never got.

08-25-2014	#16
vid Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 284	Re: "Serious" writers writing TF fiction. If we're still submitting stuff: Andrew Kaufman, a somewhat underground Canadian author, known for "All My Friends Are Superheroes", wrote "The Tiny Wife," about the people whose souls were partially stolen by a thief, causing weird stuff to happen based on problems in their lives. Off of a husband turning into a snowman and a wife turning into candy (she's eaten), the main focus is on the narrator's wife who, because she's neglected, begins to physically shrink in size. It weaves in and out of the other stories so there's no direct process, but it's slow and details her at different sizes, from a few inches shorter, then smaller than her infant son, to only a few inches tall where she rides in her husband's shirt pocket, among other things. The major problem is that it's not overly detailed and only spends 2-3 pages on her at a time throughout the entire 88 page run. Kaufman only seems to have a cult following and doesn't seem widely known, but when I checked this out after randomly hearing about it every single reviewer was absolutely in love with it. He said once that, as a screenwriter, he was hoping to get a movie made but no news of it. A few of us over at Minimizer's discussed it and agree it would make a damn good live-action SW, almost like a perfect "ISW" we never got.