The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies series returns for a fourth installment through the miracle of Kickstarter, bringing you eighteen brand new tales of beauty and strangeness.
"This book is in several distinct ways a look into the future: the future of fantasy and science fiction, diverse, strange, and wonderful; the future of these individual writers, many of whom are at or near the beginning of careers which promise to be interesting; and, additionally, the future of publishing, in which a crowd-sourced publication from a very small press can produce, and can present professionally and beautifully, work which is at the height of what is being written in genre. This particular phoenix has risen from its ashes triumphant." â Strange Horizons
"What kind of stories will you find in CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 4? Only those that are magical, imaginative, heart-wrenching, just plain bizarre, forward-looking, backward-looking, biological, romantic, hopeful, darkly funny and openly frightening. All the words that describe the best speculative fiction youâve ever read apply. In fact, if this isnât the epitome of speculative fiction, I donât know what is." â Little Red Reviewer
With stories by Yves Meynard, Ian McHugh, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Richard Parks, Gemma Files, Yukimi Ogawa, A.C. Wise, Marie Brennan, Alisa Alering, Tanith Lee, Cat Rambo, Shira Lipkin, Corinne Duyvis, Kenneth Schneyer, Camille Alexa, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Patricia Russo and Barbara Krasnoff.
Table of Contents âOur Lady of the Thylacinesâ by Yves Meynard âThe Canal Barge Magicianâs Number Nine Daughterâ by Ian McHugh âOn the Leitmotif of the Trickster Constellation in Northern Hemispheric Star Charts, Post-Apocalypseâ by Nicole Kornher-Stace âBeach Bum and the Drowned Girlâ by Richard Parks âTrap-Weedâ by Gemma Files âIcicleâ by Yukimi Ogawa âLesser Creek: A Love Story, A Ghost Storyâ by A.C. Wise âWhat Still Abidesâ by Marie Brennan âThe Wanderer Kingâ by Alisa Alering âA Little of the Nightâ by Tanith Lee âI Come from the Dark Universeâ by Cat Rambo âHappy Hour at the Tooth and Clawâ by Shira Lipkin âLilo Isâ by Corinne Duyvis âSelected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimerâ by Kenneth Schneyer âThree Timesâ by Camille Alexa âThe Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Bellyâ by Benjanun Sriduangkaew âThe Old Woman with No Teethâ by Patricia Russo âThe History of Soul 2065âł by Barbara Krasnoff
The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies series returns for a fourth installment through the miracle of Kickstarter, bringing you eighteen brand new tales of beauty and strangeness.
"This book is in several distinct ways a look into the future: the future of fantasy and science fiction, diverse, strange, and wonderful; the future of these individual writers, many of whom are at or near the beginning of careers which promise to be interesting; and, additionally, the future of publishing, in which a crowd-sourced publication from a very small press can produce, and can present professionally and beautifully, work which is at the height of what is being written in genre. This particular phoenix has risen from its ashes triumphant." â Strange Horizons
"What kind of stories will you find in CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 4? Only those that are magical, imaginative, heart-wrenching, just plain bizarre, forward-looking, backward-looking, biological, romantic, hopeful, darkly funny and openly frightening. All the words that describe the best speculative fiction youâve ever read apply. In fact, if this isnât the epitome of speculative fiction, I donât know what is." â Little Red Reviewer
With stories by Yves Meynard, Ian McHugh, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Richard Parks, Gemma Files, Yukimi Ogawa, A.C. Wise, Marie Brennan, Alisa Alering, Tanith Lee, Cat Rambo, Shira Lipkin, Corinne Duyvis, Kenneth Schneyer, Camille Alexa, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Patricia Russo and Barbara Krasnoff.
Table of Contents âOur Lady of the Thylacinesâ by Yves Meynard âThe Canal Barge Magicianâs Number Nine Daughterâ by Ian McHugh âOn the Leitmotif of the Trickster Constellation in Northern Hemispheric Star Charts, Post-Apocalypseâ by Nicole Kornher-Stace âBeach Bum and the Drowned Girlâ by Richard Parks âTrap-Weedâ by Gemma Files âIcicleâ by Yukimi Ogawa âLesser Creek: A Love Story, A Ghost Storyâ by A.C. Wise âWhat Still Abidesâ by Marie Brennan âThe Wanderer Kingâ by Alisa Alering âA Little of the Nightâ by Tanith Lee âI Come from the Dark Universeâ by Cat Rambo âHappy Hour at the Tooth and Clawâ by Shira Lipkin âLilo Isâ by Corinne Duyvis âSelected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimerâ by Kenneth Schneyer âThree Timesâ by Camille Alexa âThe Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Bellyâ by Benjanun Sriduangkaew âThe Old Woman with No Teethâ by Patricia Russo âThe History of Soul 2065âł by Barbara Krasnoff