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A beautifully inventive collection from multi award-winning author Nina Allan. These stories will enthral fans of China Mieville, Aliya Whiteley and Carmen Maria Machado.
A stunningly inventive collection from multi award-winning author, Nina Allan. Unsettling, dark and brilliantly astute, these weird and wonderful tales take us on journeys through time and space to explore enduring questions of memory and loss. Her worlds are recognisably our own but always closer to the edge, on the slant – and sharply unexpected. These stories are an unmissable insight into a writer at the top of her game.
A stunningly inventive collection from multi award-winning author, Nina Allan. Unsettling, dark and brilliantly astute, these weird and wonderful tales take us on journeys through time and space to explore enduring questions of memory and loss. Her worlds are recognisably our own but always closer to the edge, on the slant – and sharply unexpected. These stories are an unmissable insight into a writer at the top of her game.
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“Totally fell in love with this one. Keeps you hooked .every story is well written n holds its theme. Loved the work”
Nora
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“Something about this collection just stuck with me. The stories were all deeply profound and complicated and left me grappling with a vast range of emotions after each and every one. Some were more extraterrestrial than others, but all served as a brilliant homage to science fiction as a whole. The protagonists were all complex and the overall collection flowed seamlessly from one story to the next. Some left me wildly unsettled while others seemed to blossom with hope. I loved reading this short story collection and will definitely be reading more by Allan in the future.
Thank you to NetGalley and Titan Books for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review.”
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“A huge thank you to NetGalley and Titan Books for the eARC of this amazing collection!**
I absolutely adored this collection of short stories. They ranged from cute strange to effing weird, and explored themes such a space travel, shape-shifting, and climate change. I was very impressed with the cohesion of the stories despite the range of topics, and Nina Allan has a way with words.
I found myself stopping multiple times to reread a sentence then jot it down in my notes. Here are a few of these quotes:
“The problem is that no one gives much of a shit about the future until it actually happens. In the fable of the grasshopper and the ant, human beings are the most frivolous breed of grasshopper there ever was.”
“…thinking how much we resent the people who happen to encounter us when we are vulnerable.”
“How easily we convince ourselves that those that have nothing also have nothing to say.”
I found these stories to be powerful and always love when a short story collection can make me feel all of the things. My two favorites stories were Neptune’s Trident (gave me Southern Reach Trilogy vibes from Jeff Vandermeer,) and Microcosmos which viewed the wonders of science through the eyes of a youth.
This is not a book for you if you like your stories wrapped up in a neat little bow by the end. Fans of speculative fiction, scifi, and short stories that make you THINK will love this book!!”
About Nina Allan
Nina Allan's debut novel The Race was shortlisted for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the BSFA Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle. Her follow-up The Rift won the BSFA Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle. She has won the BSFA Award for Short Fiction, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, and the Aeon Award. She has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award four times and was a finalist for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award. She blogs at ninaallan.co.uk.
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