Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology

by Ellen Datlow (Other)

Overview

Telling Tales showcases 16 stories by award-winning and highly acclaimed alumni of the Clarion West Writers Program in Seattle, Washington. Edited by Ellen Datlow, this anthology contains a mixture of science fiction, fantasy, and horror from writers who have impacted the field of speculative fiction. Each story is accompanied by an afterword by an instructor from that writer's year at Clarion West.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984830169
Publisher:	Hydra House
Publication date:	03/20/2013
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Ellen Datlow, an acclaimed science fiction, fantasy, and horror editor, was born and raised in New York. She has been a short story and book editor for more than thirty years and has edited or co-edited several critically acclaimed anthologies of speculative fiction, including the Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror series and Black Thorn, White Rose (1994) with Terri Windling.

Editorial Reviews

This sparkling anthology of 16 stories, assembled by acclaimed editor Datlow (Hauntings), celebrates 30 years of Clarion West, one of the most respected writing workshops in the speculative fiction genre. Kathleen Ann Goonan’s “The Parrot Man” and Susan Palwick’s “The Fate of Mice” explore the fallout from—and potential redemption for—experiments gone wrong. Louise Marley’s “Absalom’s Mother,” Mary Rosenblum’s “My She,” Daniel Abraham’s “Leviathan Wept,” and David Marusek’s “A Boy in Cathyland” consider the onus of rules and laws, and the price of freedom. Many stories—like Andy’s Duncan’s “Beluthahatchie,” Rachel Swirsky’s “The Adventures of Captain Black Heart Wentworth: A Nautical Tail,” and “The Lineaments of Gratified Desire” by Ysabeau Wilce—twist familiar ground into something delightfully new, with strong and unusual voices. The work is all the more noteworthy because many of these stories were written during the workshop, not after. Though all have appeared elsewhere, readers will love having them gathered in one place. This is a time capsule of not only the best of Clarion, but also some of the best short speculative fiction of the last three decades. (June)

Publishers Weekly