Full Description
The first collection of short fiction from a rising star whose stories have been anthologized in the first two volumes of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series and nominated for many awards. Some of Samatar's weird and tender fabulations spring from her life and her literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void. Praise for Sofia Samatar's Books: "The excerpt from Sofia Samatar's compelling novel A Stranger in Olondria should be enough to make you run out and buy the book. Just don't overlook her short 'Selkie Stories Are for Losers,' the best story about loss and love and selkies I've read in years." --K. Tempest Bradford, NPR "An imaginative, poetic, and dark meditation on how history gets made." --Hello Beautiful "Pleasantly startling and unexpected. Her prose is by turns sharp and sumptuous, and always perfectly controlled...There are strains here too of Jane Austen and something wilder."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Like an alchemist, Sofia Samatar spins golden landscapes and dazzling sentences." --Shelf Awareness (starred review) "Beauty, wonder, and a soaring paean to the power of story."--Jason Heller, NPR "Highly recommended."
--N. K. Jemisin, New York Times Book Review Sofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories. She has written for the Guardian, Strange Horizons, and Clarkesworld, among others, and has won the John W. Campbell Award, the Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. She lives in Virginia.
Contents
Tender Bodies
Selkie Stories Are for Losers
Ogres of East Africa
Walkdog
The Tale of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle
Olimpia's Ghost
Honey Bear
How I Met the Ghoul
Those
A Girl Who Comes Out of a Chamber at Regular Intervals
How to Get Back to the Forest
Tender Landscapes
Tender
A Brief History of Nonduality Studies
Dawn and the Maiden
Cities of Emerald, Deserts of Gold
An Account of the Land of Witches
Request for an Extension on the Clarity
Meet Me in Iram
The Closest Thing to Animals
Fallow
The Red Thread
