Somewhere Beneath Those Waves

The first non-themed collection of the critically acclaimed author’s best short fiction. To paraphrase Hugo-award winner Elizabeth Bear’s introduction: Monette’s prose is lapidary, her ideas are fantastical and chilling. She has studied the craft of fantastic fiction from the pens of masters and mistresses of the genre. She is a poet of the awkward and the uncertain, exalter of the outcast, the outré, and the downright weird. There is nothing else quite like Sarah Monette’s fiction.

"Sarah Monette can write like a dream." — Charlaine Harris

"Monette is a highly original writer with her own unique voice." — Publishers Weekly

"Monette's authorial voice is abundantly blessed with originality, sophistication, and artistry." — Booklist

Contents:

• Draco campestris
• Queen of Swords
• Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day
• Under the Beansidhe's Pillow
• The Watcher in the Corners
• The Half-Sister
• Ashes, Ashes
• Sidhe Tigers
• A Light in Troy (selected for Best New Romantic Fantasy 2006)
• Amante Dorée
• Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home
• Darkness, as a Bride
• Katabasis: Seraphic Trains
• Fiddleback Ferns
• Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland (Spectrum Award Winner)
• Night Train: Heading West (selected for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX)
• The Séance at Chisholm End
• No Man's Land
• National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West
• A Night in Electric Squidland
• Impostors
• Straw
• Absent from Felicity
• The World Without Sleep
• After the Dragon