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A new collection from the author of Nebula Award winning A Song for a New Day and Philip K Dick Award winning Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea.
A half-remembered children's TV show. A hotel that shouldn't exist. A mysterious ballad. A living flag. Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker's second collection brings together a seemingly eclectic group of stories that unite behind certain themes: her touchstones of music and memory are joined by stories about secret subversions and hidden messages in art. Her stories span and transcend genre labels, looking for the truth in strange situations from possible futures to impossible pasts.
"This remarkable collection of 12 speculative shorts from Pinsker places celebrated favorites and hidden gems side by side. The volume is nearly bookended by two of the author's best known and most lauded works: the deliciously unsettling opener 'Two Truths and a Lie' and the formally playful penultimate tale 'Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather,' both of which won both Hugo and Nebula awards." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Science fiction and fantasy fans will love these strange, sometimes haunting, and ultimately empowering stories." —Kirkus Reviews
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Sarah Pinsker's first novel, A Song For A New Day, won the Nebula Award, and her first short fiction collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea won the Philip K Dick Award. She is also a singer/songwriter who toured nationally behind four albums on various independent labels. She has wrangled horses, managed grants, taught writing to college students, and tended bar badly. She lives with her wife and two rescued terriers in Baltimore, Maryland.
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