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Kij Johnson
Kij Johnson is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Sturgeon Award, and the Crawford Award, and the only person ever to have won Nebula Awards for three years running. Her novels, The Fox Woman and Fudoki, have been called "haunting," "lush," and "brilliant." She has lived in nine states,... show more

Kij Johnson is a winner of the World Fantasy Award, the Sturgeon Award, and the Crawford Award, and the only person ever to have won Nebula Awards for three years running. Her novels, The Fox Woman and Fudoki, have been called "haunting," "lush," and "brilliant." She has lived in nine states, most recently Kansas where she is a professor of writing at the University of Kansas.
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Birth date: January 01, 1960
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Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it 5 years ago
This is free. Go get yourself a copy! Link hereIf these stories are any indication of what we can expect from Tor’s new horror line NightFire, we have some excellent horror fiction to look forward to in the brand new year! The production and narration is excellent and the writing is strong and polis...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 7 years ago
I'm not a huge Lovecraft fan, but I love Johnson's quick and wonderful short stories. This is beautiful, though I would have gotten more from it if I liked Lovecraft.
Merle
Merle rated it 7 years ago
I really enjoyed this novella. It is in dialogue with a short story by Lovecraft, which I have not read, but you don’t need to read that to enjoy this. And fortunately for me, this is fantasy, not horror. It is set in a portal world clearly conceived as the stuff of nightmares, with monsters, shifti...
Gen's Shelves
Gen's Shelves rated it 8 years ago
Gorgeous and deeply thoughtful, and highly recommended.
The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it 8 years ago
I came to this issue by clicking on other Valente's stories besides "Silently and Very Fast". Mantis Wives by Kij Johnson was... a gory allegory? I'm unclear and I didn't quite care for it. Pity, because Ponies, of the same writer, was too a gory allegory that is awesome in it's absolute cruelty. ...
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