Fireflood: And Other Stories

Fireflood: And Other Stories

by Vonda N. McIntyre
Fireflood: And Other Stories

Fireflood: And Other Stories

by Vonda N. McIntyre

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Overview

A collection of eleven stories from the New York Times–bestselling author, including Nebula Award winner “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand.”
 
This brilliant collection of short fiction showcases renowned author Vonda N. McIntyre’s sparkling lyricism, captivating vision, and advocacy of the different.
 
The titular story is one of alienation and discrimination, as a woman transformed into an “ugly” lifeform—a clumsy “digger”—seeks to escape her servitude to humans, but is denied sanctuary by the beautiful and graceful “flyers.” Also included is the acclaimed story “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand,” which became the first section of McIntyre’s Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel, Dreamsnake. In it, a woman who harnesses the power of snakes’ venom to heal saves the life of a nomad boy in the desert—but the price she pays may be too much to bear. In “Aztecs,” later expanded into the novel Superluminal, a woman undergoes biological modifications in order to pilot ships during faster-than-light travel.
 
“A quality selection . . . Zoning in on McIntyre’s penchant for intense, dark stories with human pain and transcendence at their core . . . Fireflood, as with all of McIntyre’s fiction, is written in a brooding, pulsing prose that drops the reader into a setting with little to orient themselves save the words on the page.” —Speculiction
 
“Eleven stories by one of the most widely admired of the younger science-fiction writers . . . From awkward to wonderful—an interesting record of an up-and-coming talent’s present whereabouts.” —Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781504067416
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publication date: 10/12/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 281
Sales rank: 496,759
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Vonda N. McIntyre (1948–2019) was the award-winning science fiction and fantasy author of DreamsnakeThe King’s Daughter (The Moon and the Sun), and many other highly praised novels and short stories. McIntyre’s books and short fiction won Hugo and Nebula Awards, and her Star Trek and Star Wars tie-ins are beloved by generations of fans. McIntyre founded Clarion West, a writing workshop for speculative fiction writers, and was a founding member of the Book View Café, an author-owned publishing cooperative. A quiet, tireless feminist, she nurtured hundreds of writers. Through her writing, teaching, and works, McIntyre both shaped and nurtured the science fiction/fantasy community.

Table of Contents

  • “Our Hero” by Nisi Shawl
  • Fireflood
  • Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand
  • Spectra
  • Wings
  • The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn
  • The End’s Beginning
  • Screwtop
  • Only at Night
  • Recourse, Inc.
  • The Genius Freaks
  • Aztecs
  • About the Author
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