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Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the
Philip K. Dick Award, and named one of io9.com's "Top 10
Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm." With a
new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker and Rag.
"Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you
look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but
alive." When a strange hole materializes in a storage room,
would-be poet Nicholas and his feral lover Nakota allow their
curiosity to lead them into the depths of terror. "Wouldn't it be
wild to go down there?" says Nakota. Nicholas says, "We're not."
But no one is in control, and their experiments lead to obsession,
violence, and a very final transformation for everyone who gets too
close to the Funhole.
From the award-winning author of The Cipher and Buddha Boy, comes
Velocities, Kathe Koja's second electrifying collection of short
fiction. Thirteen stories, two never before published, all flying
at the speed of strange.
Kit Webster is hiding a secret. Carma, his best friend, has already
figured it out, and pushes him to audition for the high school
play, "Talk." When he's cast as the male lead, he expects to escape
his own life for a while and become a different person. What he
gets instead is the role of a lifetime: Kit Webster. In the play,
Kit's thrown together with Lindsay Walsh, the female lead and the
school's teen queen. Lindsay, tired of the shallow and selfish boys
from her usual circle of friends, sees something real in Kit - and
wants it. But Kit's attention is focused on Pablo, another boy in
school. The play is controversial; the parents put pressure on the
school to shut it down. And when Kit and Lindsay rally to save
Talk, they find themselves deep into a battle for the truth:
onstage, and inside themselves.
"Because all my life had been a chrysalis, with you, Ada and
Marshall and our house; even though we did other things and saw
other people, the summers at the lake, and all those homeschoolers'
parties, it was still always just - us."
Hilly and her brother, Ivan, have been homeschooled by their
parents. All their lives it has been just the two of them - Ivan
and Hilly, brother and sister, pilot and copilot. Until Hilly
breaks out of their cozy cocoon to work on the local high school
literary magazine as an extracurricular activity. Ivan feels
betrayed: it's no longer just the two of them. And when Hilly goes
into a depression after the suicide of a friend she has made at the
magazine, she drifts even further away from Ivan. Hilly's parents
insist that she see a psychotherapist. Ivan steps in to help manage
Hilly's recovery by taking her to and from her appointments but
compounds the betrayal by establishing his own relationship with
the manipulative therapist.
Through the alternating voices of Hilly and Ivan, and drawing on
the myths of Persephone and Narcissus, Kathe Koja explores the
souls of two teenagers caught in a world where love takes you
deeper than you ever dreamed you'd go.
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