The Fate of Mice
by:
Susan Palwick (author)
The fantastic and magical realities humans create and their often terrifying consequences are examined in this unflinching collection of work from a noted science fiction writer. A determined mother attempts to break the fairy tale spell that confines her daughters, a female wolf learns that...
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The fantastic and magical realities humans create and their often terrifying consequences are examined in this unflinching collection of work from a noted science fiction writer. A determined mother attempts to break the fairy tale spell that confines her daughters, a female wolf learns that loving a man can be quite dangerous, and a manipulative politician harvests zombies in these stories that are beautiful and brutal, but maintain a modicum of hope for the future.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781892391421 (1892391422)
Publish date: February 15th 2007
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Pages no: 218
Edition language: English
If you like George Saunders, Gregory Maguire, Stephen King, or Angela Carter, you'll enjoy this collection. Palwick's stories are often set on a premise instead of being slice-of-lifers. (I don't say that to judge, just to describe.) Some of them are retold folk and fairy tales. Some are speculati...
"But mostly I was sad, listening to her, because I felt like everyone I knew had died somehow, changed into other people when I wasn't looking." Susan Palwick's collection of stories is chock full of changings, people who transform into other things, for better or for worse. An intelligence enhanc...
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