Clockwork Phoenix 2: More Tales of Beauty and Strangeness

✍ Scribed by Allen, Mike (Editor)

• Publisher: Mythic Delirium Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 206 KB
• Series: Clockwork Phoenix 2
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Allen finds his groove for this second annual anthology of weird stories, selecting 16 wonderfully evocative, well-written tales. Marie Brennan's thought-provoking "Once a Goddess" considers the fate of a goddess abruptly returned to mortality. Tanith Lee puts a stunning twist in the story of a morose prince in "The Pain of Glass." Mary Robinette Kowal's "At the Edge of Dying" describes a world where magic comes only to those at death's door. In "Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela," Saladin Ahmed tells of a small village on the edge of a desert, a hermit and a woman who may be a witch. Each story fits neatly alongside the next, and the diversity of topics, perspectives and authors makes this cosmopolitan anthology a winner. (July)
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