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The Night Orchid - Conan Doyle in Toulouse (Paperback)
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The Night Orchid - Conan Doyle in Toulouse (Paperback)
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Loot Price R559
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Arthur Conan Doyle takes Professor Challenger to the South of
France to meet Professor Picard, Irene Adler and a horror from the
ancient past. ("A treat... read it and grin," Tangent Online.) What
extraordinary secrets lie in the weave of an ancient carpet? (Voted
Best Story of 1998, Interzone; "particularly strong," scifi.com.) A
young boy accidentally swallows a fairy. ("An intriguing glimpse
into a different world," BestSF.net; "A disturbing fairy tale,"
Strange Horizons.) Mysterious cocoons fall to Earth bringing alien
revelations. ("Vivid and engaging," Tangent Online.) What do
corpses do to other corpses at night? ("Gripping... disquieting,"
Tangent Online.) In cyberspace all intelligences are edible.
("Worthy of Philip K. Dick," Mauvais Genres.) Fourteen stories by
multiple award-winning French science fiction author Jean-Claude
Dunyach, including six never before translated. This volume
features Unravelling the Thread selected in Year's Best Science
Fiction of 1999 and Watch Me When I Sleep included in Year's Best
Fantasy and Horror of 2002. In his foreword, David Brin (The
Postman, Earth) describes the author as "one of the most talented
imaginations living today" and urges: "Feast upon the imagination
of Jean-Claude Dunyach."
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