The Chains That You Refuse
A new collection by one of the most popular and prolific authors of the last few years covers a wide range of material, from time travel to cyberpunk to contemporary fantasy. Twenty stories and two poems, originally published in high profile places like SciFi.com and Asimov's.
A new collection by one of the most popular and prolific authors of the last few years covers a wide range of material, from time travel to cyberpunk to contemporary fantasy. Twenty stories and two poems, originally published in high profile places like SciFi.com and Asimov's.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781597800488 (1597800481)
Publish date: May 1st 2006
Publisher: Night Shade Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Elizabeth Bear is not a gifted storyteller, but she is determined to convey the magic of her ideas. About half of these stories have a good idea and bad execution, or a lackluster idea and bad execution. Her stream-of-consciousness poems are more prose than poetry--she just added line breaks. A f...
This was the book that got me into Elizabeth Bear, wide variety of stories told with amazing skill.