PositiveLos Angeles Times\'Out There\' originally ran in the New Yorker and was something of a viral sensation. Fans of the story won’t be disappointed by the collection, which also explores a gendered territory somewhere in the borderlands of magical realism, weird horror, sci-fi and literary fiction about jaded relationships. In these dreamscapes, men are less an open threat than a vaguely cloying aura, like the lavender-scented perfume into which blots dissolve once they have secured your credit cards ... Folk’s [stories] don’t exactly propose a way to rewrite men or women or their relationships. The stories in Out There are more interested in probing for glitches in the commands, places where the narratives about gender dissolve for a moment into static—fascinating, painful, blank—before picking up the signal again.
