Sally Mc Bride’s haunting, mesmerizing short fiction has been captivating audiences for nearly forty years. It’s been published in Asimov’s, Amazing, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Northern Frights, Tesseracts, On Spec, and many more magazines, anthologies and best-of collections. It’s won Canada’s Aurora Award and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her stories have been reprinted time and again. Now, for the first time, fourteen of her best-loved stories are collected together in this volume.
Therapy for an alien stranded on Earth from infancy, land and sea remaking humanity in its own image, smart buildings, memory manipulation, and more. Prepare to get transported to a fantastic future, a terrifying present, or look at history and myth in a whole new light.
Table of Content
Speaking Sea
Softlinks
The Queen of Yesterday
The Emperor of the Half-Garden
The Fragrance of Orchids
A Breath After Dying
Hello, Jane, Goodbye
At the Biological Cafe
It’s the Elemental Spirits!
As Far As Is Feasible
Totem
There Is a Violence
The Paisley Snow
The Faraway Club
About the author
Sally Mc Bride’s short stories and novellas have appeared in Asimov’s, Amazing, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Northern Frights, Tesseracts, On Spec, and many more magazines, anthologies and best-of collections. ‘The Fragrance of Orchids’ (Asimov’s) won Canada’s Aurora Award and received Hugo and Nebula nominations. She has taught fiction writing and edited speculative fiction, co-publishing the magazine Trans Versions. Her previous novels include Indigo Time (Five Rivers Publishing) and Water, Circle, Moon (Masque Books). Born and raised in Canada, Sally divides her time between Toronto and the mountains of Idaho where she enjoys skiing and hiking with her husband. She has several works in progress.
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