You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories
World Fantasy Award nominee 2016.
Scalding and dark, these stories remind us of the price of politics, the costs we all pay, knowing and not.
The body of this book is built on hard, political stories that encompass the gentle wisdom of the ages. There is cruelty and love. War and regeneration. Rickert has long been an undiscovered master of the short story and this survey collection, including new work, will bring her to a wide, astonished audience. Rickert’s first collection, Map of Dreams, received the Crawford and World Fantasy awards and stories in this collection have received the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards.
Contents:
- Memoir of a Deer Woman
- Journey into the Kingdom
- The Shipbuilder
- Cold Fires
- The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece
- The Christmas Witch
- Holiday
- The Chambered Fruit
- The Mothers of Voorhisville
- You Have Never Been Here
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M. Rickert
Mary Rickert, known as M. Rickert (born 1959), is an American writer of fantasy fiction. Many of her stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Her first collection, Map of Dreams, was published by Golden Gryphon Press in 2006; her second collection, Holiday, appeared in 2010 from the same publisher. She lives in Wisconsin.
Rickert's fiction has won or been nominated for several major awards. "Journey into the Kingdom" was nominated for the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and an International Horror Guild Award, and won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. Map of Dreams won the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection and the 2007 Crawford Award, and the collection's title story was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
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