Starlings
Author: | Jo Walton |
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Tachyon Publications, 2018 |
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Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
An intimate first flight of short fiction from award-winning novelist Jo Walton (Among Others, The King's Peace, Necessity).
An ancient coin cyber-spies on lovers and thieves. The magic mirror sees all but can do nothing. A cloned savior solves a fanatically-inspired murder. Three Irish siblings thieve treasures with bad poetry and the aid of the Queen of Cats.
With these captivating initial glimpses into her storytelling psyche, Jo Walton shines through subtle myths and reinvented realities. Through eclectic stories, subtle vignettes, inspired poetry, and more, Walton soars with humans, machines, and magic--rising from the every day into the universe itself.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Jo Walton
Fiction
- Three Twilight Tales
- Jane Austen to Cassandra
- Unreliable Witness
- On the Wall
- The Panda Coin
- Remember the Allosaur
- Sleeper
- Relentlessly Mundane
- Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction
- Joyful and Triumphant: St. Zenobius and the Aliens
- Turnover
- At the Bottom of the Garden
- Out of It
- What a Piece of Work
- Parable Lost
- What Would Sam Spade Do?
- Tradition
- What Joseph Felt
- The Need to Stay the Same
- A Burden Shared
Script
- Three Shouts on a Hill (A Play)
Poetry
- Dragon's Song
- Not in this Town
- Hades and Persephone
- The Death of Petrach
- Advice to Loki
- Ask to Embla
- Three Bears Norse
- Machiavelli and Prospero
- Cardenio
- Ten Years Ahead: Oracle Poem
- Pax in Forma Columba
- Translated from the Original
- Sleepless in New Orleans
- The Godzilla Sonnets
- Not a Bio for Wiscon: Jo Walton
Biography
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