![]() ![]() You’ll want to stop and savor each and every one. ![]() Yet every fine-cut gem of a story presented here is firmly grounded in the human experience, in tenderness and yearning, in humor and heartache. “Very rarely will you meet an imagination as potent and far-reaching as Emily Cataneo’s. They unfold in settings rendered both beautiful and sinister: a wintry post-Revolution Russia, a gossipy New England town, a lonely bathhouse where robots go to die.Īs the characters in these tales live out their lives, from childhood to death and beyond, they search for meaning, connection, and safety, struggling to transcend their circumstances and ultimately grappling with the question: how far will they go to escape? These stories, many of which have appeared on year’s best longlists, span the gamut from soft science fiction to noir, to high fantasy and everything in between. Cataneo’s debut fiction collection is rife with the decayed grandeur of old Europe, girls who love and loathe ghosts, and magic that comes with a price. A magician struggles to find a cure for the plague descending on her city before it’s too late.Įmily B. Two children venture into the treacherous forest to find their missing bird-guardian. Three sisters live by a strict etiquette book in an abandoned house, until one of them starts to question why. This is unique fantasy, fresh, gripping and brilliantly realized.” - Jack KetchumĪ ballet dancer can’t escape an unwanted suitor-even after death. ![]() “You’ll want to stop and savor each and every one. SPEAKING TO SKULL KINGS AND OTHER STORIES ![]()
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