A is for Alien
A is for Alien is award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan's first collection devoted entirely to her science-fiction work. It includes the critically acclaimed novelette "Riding the White Bull" (chosen for The Year's Best Science Fiction, 22nd Annual Collection), along with seven other tales of a less-than-utopian future. Ranging from the wastelands and mountains of Mars to the streets of a late 21st-Century Manhattan, from the moons of Europa and Saturn to an iceless Antarctica, these tales bring Kiernan's trademark brand of the eco-gothic to bear on what it means to be human and the paths and decisions that may face mankind only a little farther along.
Cait has decided on the material that will be in the bonus chapbook (nearly 19,000 words) included with the limited edition: "Between the Flatirons and the Deep Green Sea", "Persephone", "Hoar Isis", as well as dream sequences from her online journal that led to more recent SF tales. The cover will be by Richard Kirk.
Contents:
- Riding the White Bull
- Faces in Revolving Souls
- Zero Summer
- The Pearl Diver
- In View of Nothing
- Ode to Katan Amano
- A Season of Broken Dolls
- Bradbury Weather
- Afterword by Elizabeth Bear
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Caitlín R. Kiernan
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 1964) is the author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including ten novels; many comic books; and more than two hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. She is also the author of scientific papers in the field of paleontology.
Caitlín R. Kiernan also writes under the pseudonym of Kathleen Tierney.
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