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Roam through the captivating stories of World Fantasy and Mythopoeic Award winner Theodora Goss (the Athena Club trilogy). This themed collection of imaginary places, with three new stories, recalls Susanna Clarke's alternate Europe and the surreal metafictions of Jorge Luis Borges.
"The elegance of Goss's work has never ceased to amaze me."
--Catherynne M. Valente, author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The infamous girl monsters of nineteenth-century fiction gather in London and form their own club. In the imaginary country of Thüle. Characters from folklore band together to fight a dictator. An intrepid girl reporter finds the hidden land of Oz--and joins its invasion of our world. The author writes the autobiography of her alternative life and a science fiction love letter to Budapest. The White Witch conquers England with snow and silence.
Deeply influenced by the author's Hungarian childhood during the regime of the Soviet Union, each of these intricate stories engages with storytelling and identity, including Goss's own.
About this Author
World Fantasy, Locus, and Mythopoeic Award-winning author and poet Theodora Goss was born in Hungary, and spent her childhood in various European countries before her family moved to the United States. Goss is the author of the novel trilogy The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, and The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl. Her short story and poetry collections include In the Forest of Forgetting, Songs for Ophelia, and Snow White Learns Witchcraft. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and Shirley Jackson Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Goss's work has also been translated into fifteen languages. Currently, she teaches at several creative writing workshops, and in written, oral, and visual rhetoric at Boston University. Visit her at theodoragoss.com.
Reviews
"In the tradition of great modern fantasists like Angela Carter and Marina Warner, Theodora Goss's sublime tales are modern classics-beautiful, sly, sensual and deeply moving."
--Elizabeth Hand, winner of the Mythopoeic, Nebula, Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy Awards
"The elegance of Goss's work has never ceased to amaze me."
--Catherynne M. Valente, winner of the Mythopoeic, Locus, Hugo, Otherwise and Theodore Sturgeon Awards
"Through prose and poetry, Goss shines her unique light into the fairytale forest--and many bright eyes gleam back."
--Margo Lanagan, winner of the Aurealis, Ditmar and World Fantasy Awards
Praise for The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter
Winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel
Finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novel
Finalist for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
"Theodora Goss's splendid debut novel is a whipsmart look at the truths hiding in the stories - Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, and others--that you might think you know."
--Kat Howard, author of Roses and Rot
"As if Charlie's Angels, as written by Mary Shelley, took over the Bluestocking Society, with bonus well-mannered explosions. An utterly delightful, transformative read."
--Fran Wilde, award-winning author of Updraft
[STARRED REVIEW] "A tour de force of reclaiming the narrative, executed with impressive wit and insight."
--Publishers Weekly
"A pleasure, especially for fans of Victorian detective stories, classic sf and horror literature, and feminist remakes."
--Booklist
"A swiftly paced, immaculately plotted mystery full of winning characters you always thought you knew, as well as ones you would never have imagined."
--NPR
"The brainy, gleefully madcap literary mashup of your dreams."
--B&N SciFi & Fantasy Blog
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