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In Chicks Dig Gaming, editors Jennifer Brozek (Apocalypse Ink
Productions), Robert Smith? (Who is the Doctor?) and Lars Pearson
(editor-in-chief, the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig series) bring
together essays by nearly three dozen female writers to celebrate
the gaming medium and its creators, and to examine the characters
and series that they love. Catherynne M. Valente (The Girl Who
Circumnavigated Fairyland, Indistinguishable from Magic) examines
Super Mario Bros. through the lens of Samsara, the Wheel of Birth
and Rebirth; Seanan McGuire (the October Daye series) details how
gaming taught her math; G. Willow Wilson (Alif the Unseen) comes to
terms with World of Warcraft; and Rosemary Jones (Forgotten Realms)
celebrates world traveler Nellie Bly and the board game she
inspired. Other contributors include Emily Care Boss (Gaming as
Women), Jen J. Dixon (The Walking Eye), Racheline Maltese (The Book
of Harry Potter Triffles), Mary Anne Mohanraj (Bodies in Motion),
L.M. Myles (Chicks Unravel Time), Jody Lynn Nye (the MythAdventures
series), and E. Lily Yu (The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist
Bees)."
In Indistinguishable from Magic, more than 60 essays by New York
Times-bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente (The Girl Who
Circumnavigated Fairyland, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland) are
brought together in print for the first time, sharing Cat's
observations and insights about fairy tales and myths, pop culture,
gender and race issues, an amateur's life on planet Earth and much
more. Join Cat as she studies the fantasy genre's inner clockwork
to better comprehend its infatuation with medievalism (AKA dragon
bad, sword pretty), considers the undervalued importance of the
laundry machine to women's rights in locales as wide-ranging as
Japan and the steampunk genre, and comes to understand that so much
of shaping fantasy works is about making puppets seem real and
sympathetic (otherwise, you're just playing with dolls). Also
featured: Cat takes a hard look at why she can't stop writing about
Persephone, dwells upon the legacy of poets in Cleveland, and
examines how stories teach us how to survive - if Gretel can kill
the witch, Snow White can return from the dead, and Rapunzel can
live in the desert, trust that you can too."
In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced
readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M.
Valente. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where
the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most
secret fantasies begins with a stranger's kiss....
Between life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop
beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. To get there
is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse--a voyage permitted
only to those who've always believed there's another world than the
one that meets the eye. Those fated to make the passage are marked
forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh
after a single orgasmic night. To this kingdom of ghost trains,
lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four
travelers: Oleg, a New York locksmith; the beekeeper November;
Ludovico, a binder of rare books; and a young Japanese woman named
Sei. They've each lost something important--a wife, a lover, a
sister, a direction in life--and what they will find in Palimpsest
is more than they could ever imagine.
A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up Readers
Every once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of
the magic spell that stories can
cast over us-to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the
Arabian Nights for our time-a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed
to spirit you away from the very first page....
Secreted away in a garden, a lonely girl spins stories to warm a
curious prince: peculiar feats and unspeakable fates that loop
through each other and back again to meet in the tapestry of her
voice. Inked on her eyelids, each twisting, tattooed tale is a
piece in the puzzle of the girl's own hidden history. And what
tales she tells! Tales of shape-shifting witches and wild
horsewomen, heron kings and beast princesses, snake gods, dog
monks, and living stars-each story more strange and fantastic than
the one that came before. From ill-tempered "mermaid" to fastidious
Beast, nothing is ever quite what it seems in these ever-shifting
tales-even, and especially, their teller. Adorned with
illustrations by the legendary Michael Kaluta, Valente's enchanting
lyrical fantasy offers a breathtaking reinvention of the untold
myths and dark fairy tales that shape our dreams. And just when you
think you've come to the end, you realize the adventure has only
begun....
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