Sally McBride’s haunting, mesmerizing short fiction has been captivating audiences for nearly forty years. It’s been published in Asimov’s, Amazing, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Northern Frights, Tesseracts, On Spec, and many more magazines, anthologies and best-of collections. It’s won Canada’s Aurora Award and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her stories have been reprinted time and again. In this volume, fifteen more of her short stories are collected for the first time.
Visions of death and life, alien memories, magic spells gone awry, floating girls, and more. Prepare to get transported to a fantastic future, a terrifying present, or look at history and myth in a whole new light.
Includes “Dance on a Forgotten Shore” co-written by Alan Dean Foster
Foreword by Julie E. Czerneda, Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Hall of Fame author and editor
Stories in this collection
The Doll Ladies
Her Eyes As Bright As Unsheath’d Swords
Pick My Bones With Whispers
After the First Death
The Price of Memory
Walk to Bryten
The Bones at the Bottom of the Sea
Little Feather
Dance on a Forgotten Shore
The Singing Box
My Mother’s Garden
Doing Drugs
Thank Yew Very Much
Szabra’s Souls
Intersection
ISBN: 978-1-998795-13-0
Genre: Short stories/Science fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Age: 16+
Pages: 304
Formats: Paperback, ebook
Released: October 2024
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This is science fiction at its most fascinating. Sally McBride is a master at concocting characters and writing styles best suited to the innovative and original premise of each story her imagination comes up with. She is a thoroughly professional writer who knows her craft.
Amazing Stories
I felt a love of science fiction in the stories and a love of the art of short storytelling. A great collection.
SFBook Reviews
If you think you can guess what might bring a vampire to tears, or reconcile a mother to raising the infant Grim Reaper, or cause artificial bees to make hand-pollinators obsolete, think again. Sally McBride’s inventive plots and affecting characters will surprise and delight you.
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Nancy Kress