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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first collection of short fiction from a rising star whose stories have been anthologized in the first two volumes of the \u003cI\u003eBest American Science Fiction and Fantasy\u003c/I\u003e series and nominated for many awards. Some of Samatar\u0026#8217;s weird and tender fabulations spring from her life and her literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Sofia Samatar\u0026#8217;s Books:\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#147;The excerpt from Sofia Samatar\u0026#8217;s compelling novel \u003cI\u003eA Stranger in Olondria\u003c/I\u003e should be enough to make you run out and buy the book. Just don\u0026#8217;t overlook her short \u0026#145;Selkie Stories Are for Losers,\u0026#8217; the best story about loss and love and selkies I\u0026#8217;ve read in years.\u0026#8221; \u0026#151;K. Tempest Bradford, NPR\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#147;An imaginative, poetic, and dark meditation on how history gets made.\u0026#8221; \u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eHello Beautiful\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#147;Pleasantly startling and unexpected. Her prose is by turns sharp and sumptuous, and always perfectly controlled. . . . There are strains here too of Jane Austen and something wilder.\u0026#8221;\u0026#151;\u003cI\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c/I\u003e (starred review)\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#147;Like an alchemist, Sofia Samatar spins golden landscapes and dazzling sentences.\u0026#8221; \u0026#151;\u003cI\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c/I\u003e (starred review)\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#147;Beauty, wonder, and a soaring paean to the power of story.\u0026#8221;\u0026#151;Jason Heller, NPR\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026#147;Highly recommended.\u0026#8221; \u0026#151;N. K. Jemisin, \u003cI\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cB\u003eSofia Samatar\u003c/B\u003e is the author of the novels \u003cI\u003eA Stranger in Olondria\u003c/I\u003e and \u003cI\u003eThe Winged Histories\u003c/I\u003e. She has written for the \u003cI\u003eGuardian, Strange Horizons\u003c/I\u003e, and \u003cI\u003eClarkesworld\u003c/I\u003e, among others, and has won the John W. Campbell Award, the Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. She lives in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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