About the Author:
Carol Emshwiller is a key figure in science fiction’s new-wave movement and the author of Carmen Dog, The Mount, Mr. Boots, and The Secret City. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Pushcart Prize as well as the Philip K. Dick and Gallun awards. In 2005, she received the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement and the Nebula Award for I Live With You,” the title story of her short-story collection.
Review:
"Deceptively simple, yet so powerful, so subtle, so disruptive as to blow our imaginations wide open."
—Strange Horizons
...Carol’s stories turn the corner into another dimension.”
Harlan Ellison
The woman is a genius, period.... You must, must, must not miss this collection.”
Gwenda Bond
Emshwiller consistently pokes holes through the fabrications of our lives and reminds me of the power literature has to change the way we think.”
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A collection that manages to remind us of great writers like George Saunders, Grace Paley, and Harlan Ellison all at once, although Emshwiller is a unique and wonderful writer in her own right.”
Time Out Chicago
Compassion and a sly sense of humor shape the insight-filled fiction.... Lyrical and resonant....”
Publishers Weekly
Her eye for detail and ear for poetry allow her to create compact fables that resonate beyond their immediate settings.”
San Francisco Chronicle
Emshwiller’s strange, often sad, and beautiful stories linger, unfolding long after reading them.”
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