Philip K. Dick Award finalist
In the title novella, Cotman imagines a group of near-immortals living in Pittsburgh in an uneasy truce with Lord Decay. Their truce is threatened when one of them takes pity on a young woman who knows their secret. In “Among the Zoologists,” a game writer on their way to a convention falls in with a group of rogue Darwinists whose baggage contains a great mystery. A volleyball tournament devolves into nightmare and chaos in “Mine.” In Cotman’s hands, the conventions of genres from fairytales to Victorian literature to epic fantasy and horror give shape to marvelously new stories.
- ISBN10 1618731726
- ISBN13 9781618731722
- Publish Date 29 October 2020 (first published 15 July 2020)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Small Beer Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 304
- Language English