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100 1  McIntyre, Vonda N.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Fireflood :|bAnd Other Stories /|cedited by A. Susan 
       Williams and Richard Glyn Jones ; with an introduction by 
       Joanna Russ. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bOpen Road Media,
       |c[2021] 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    1 online resource (281 pages) 
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337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
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520    "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"-
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588 0  Publisher metadata. 
650  0 Fantasy fiction, English|xWomen authors. 
650  0 Fantasy fiction, American|xWomen authors. 
650  7 FICTION / Short Stories (single author)|2bisacsh 
655  0 Electronic books. 
655  7 Science fiction.|2gsafd 
655  7 Short stories.|2gsafd 
700 1  Williams, A. Susan,|eeditor. 
700 1  Jones, Richard Glyn,|eeditor. 
700 1  Russ, Joanna,|d1937-2011,|ewriter of added commentary. 
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