Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White

by Eugie Foster

Overview

Eight critically acclaimed short stories by Nebula-Award winning author Eugie Foster.

Winner of the 2012 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Award in the Best Short Story Collection category.

Contents:
* The Life and Times of Penguin
* Running on Two Legs
* Black Swan, White Swan
* The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death
* A Nose for Magic
* The Center of the Universe
* The Wizard of Eternal Watch
* Mortal Clay, Stone Heart

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013461741
Publisher:	Eugie Foster
Publication date:	11/30/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	983 KB

About the Author

Eugie Foster received the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and was named the Author of the Year by Bards and Sages. THE DRAGON AND THE STARS anthology, edited by Derwin Mak and Eric Choi, with her story, “Mortal Clay, Stone Heart,” won the 2011 Prix Aurora Award for Best English Related Work. Her fiction has also received the 2002 Phobos Award; been translated into eight languages; and been a finalist for the Hugo and British Science Fiction Association awards. Her publication credits number over 100 and include stories in REALMS OF FANTASY, INTERZONE, APEX MAGAZINE, CRICKET, and FANTASY MAGAZINE; podcasts ESCAPE POD, PSEUDOPOD, PODCASTLE, and DRABBLECAST; and anthologies BEST NEW FANTASY, BEST NEW ROMANTIC FANTASY 2, and NEBULA AWARDS SHOWCASE 2011. Her short story collection, RETURNING MY SISTER'S FACE AND OTHER FAR EASTERN TALES OF WHIMSY AND MALICE, was published in 2009 and has been used as a textbook at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of California-Davis. Visit her online at EugieFoster.com.

Editorial Reviews

Eugie Foster’s "The Life and Times of Penguin" succeeds in being, by turns, funny, thought-provoking, and poignant

Tangent - Douglas Hoffman

["The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death" is] a profoundly strange supernatural look at the morality of revenge.

Locus - Nick Gevers

["The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death"] is emotionally effective and, impressively, given its subject matter, makes its point through character and story rather than cold rhetoric.

Tangent - Ben Payne

[About "Running on Two Legs"] the beauty of the language carries one along...It is difficult to write a thoughtful story that features a terminal disease without melodrama, and Eugie Foster achieves it with style.

Tangent - E. Sedia

Told from the point of view of a balloon animal penguin, the toy’s brief but eventful life manages to jam in enough existential angst to give Kierkegaard indigestion, an astonishing emotional depth, and yet fully embrace the essentially absurd nature of ["The Life and Times of Penguin"].

The Fix - Martin McGrath