Ice : and other stories / Candas Jane Dorsey

Author: Dorsey, Candas Jane
Uniform Title: Short stories. Selections
Additional Titles: Ice & other stories
Published: Hornsea, England : PS Publishing Ltd, September 2018.
Copyright Date: ©2018
Edition: First edition.
Physical Description: vi, 310 pages ; 22 cm

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Contents

(Learning about) machine sex -- Sleeping in a box -- Here be dragons -- Turtles all the way down -- Dvorzjak symphony -- Death of a dream -- Living in cities -- Going home to Baïblanca -- Mapping -- Ice -- How many angels can dance -- Locks -- Once upon a time... -- Blood from a stone -- Mom and Mother Teresa -- "...the darkest evenin of the year..." -- A trace in futures -- Sevin in a boat, no dog -- First contact -- Dolly the dog-soldier -- The food of my people -- End of the line, or, desperate Russian girls looking for love -- Notes and acknowledgements.

Summary

"Beginning with the iconic 1988 story "(Learning About) Machine Sex" and ending with a new tale written specially for this volume, Ice gathers thirty years of the dazzingly imaginative short fiction of Candas Jane Dorsey, who, as a writer, editor, publisher, writing teacher, reviewer, anthologist, and essayist, has had a dramatic and formative effect on Canadian literary, queer and feminist speculative fiction since her debut story was published in 1977. In Ice: an alienated would-be assassin makes a hobby of destroying drowned skyscrapers... A stolen child trained to kill discovers an alternative... A detective fails to save her digital daughter from a predator... A city becomes a museum under the curation of a bored former space-traveller... An abuse survivor discovers the shocking pain that underlies an ambitious personal art project... A tough, hard-boiled poet laureate tracks down a lost raison-d'être... A bridge of virtual birds leads a shape-shifting futurist into a turbulent landscape of love, email spam, and money... These are only a few of the scenarios brought to edgy, literate, evocative life in this landmark collection."--Dust jacket flap.

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ISBN

9781786363510 (hardback)
1786363518 (hardback)
9781786363527 (signed)

Collection

Arthur O. Lewis Utopia Collection.

Note

Story credits after main paging.
Cover art by Mitchell Stuart.

Source of Acquisition

Rare Books copy: Gift of Lyman Tower Sargent.

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