This collection of short stories by Elisabeth Vonarburg presents works of vivid imagery and emotional intensity, set in the same future as the award winning novels The Silent City and The Maerlande Ch
This collection of short stories by Elisabeth Vonarburg presents works of vivid imagery and emotional intensity, set in the same future as the award winning novels The Silent City and The Maerlande Chronicles.
"Vonarburg's prose is sensual and measured, richly descriptive...present attractive worlds that are at once familiar and exotic..."
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Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine "Glorious, lush novel, very dreamlike indeed."
— Nalo Hopkinson
"... sinuous, highly sensuous prose, with a leisurely, attention to sensory wonders...a work of impressive subtlety and rigor ..."
— Washington Post
Elisabeth Vonarburg is considered one of Canada's most accomplished Science Fiction writers. Born in France in 1947, she immigrated to Canada in 1973 and taught French Literature and Writing at various universities in Quebec. More recently, she has been actively involved in the speculative fiction community as a translator, convention organizer, literary editor, and writer.
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