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    Bone Swans

    By C. S. E. Cooney

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    BONUS MATERIAL! Now includes excerpts from C. S. E. Cooney's short novel The Twice-Drowned Saint!

     

     

     

    Winner of the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection

    Contains "The Bone Swans of Amandale," 2015 Nebula Award finalist for Best Novella

     

    "C. S. E. Cooney is one of the most moving, daring, and plainly beautiful voices to come out of recent fantasy. She's a powerhouse with a wink in her eye and a song in each pocket."
    —Catherynne M. Valente, New York Times-bestselling author of the Fairyland novels

     

    "Cooney's brilliantly executed collection of five stories is a delicious stew of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, marked by unforgettable characters who plumb the depths of pathos and triumph ... These well-crafted narratives defiantly refuse to fade from memory long after the last word has been read."
    —Publishers Weekly, starred review

     

    "In five beautifully crafted stories, Cooney builds imaginary worlds full of flying carpets, fairy-tale characters, and children confronted with a postapocalyptic Earth ... Each tale packs in enough plot for a novel, with adventurous characters who brim with wit."
    —Library Journal, starred review

     

    "Cooney produces memorable prose propelled by extraordinary ideas...Faced with such twisted genius, I'll say no more!"
    —Locus

     

    "These stories are a pure joy. C. S. E. Cooney's imagination is wild and varied, her stories bawdy, horrific, comic, and moving-frequently all at the same time. Her characters are wickedly appealing, and her language—O! her language. Lush, playful, poetic, but never obscure or stilted, it makes her magic more magic, her comedy more comic, and her tragic moments almost unbearable."
    —Delia Sherman, author of Young Woman in a Garden: Stories

     

    "C.S.E. Cooney's a major talent and these are major talent stories. Who can resist hero rats, pouting swans, feral children, flying carpets and the Flabberghast?"
    —Ysabeau S. Wilce, Andre Norton Award winning author of Flora's Dare

     

    A swan princess hunted for her bones, a broken musician and his silver pipe, and a rat named Maurice bring justice to a town under fell enchantment. A gang of courageous kids confronts both a plague-destroyed world and an afterlife infested with clowns but robbed of laughter. In an island city, the murder of a child unites two lovers, but vengeance will part them. Only human sacrifice will save a city trapped in ice and darkness. Gold spun out of straw has a price, but not the one you expect.

     

    World Fantasy Award winner Ellen Kushner has called Cooney's writing "stunningly delicious! Cruel, beautiful and irresistible." Bone Swans, the infernally whimsical debut collection from C. S. E. Cooney, gathers five novellas that in the words of Andre Norton Award winner Delia Sherman are "bawdy, horrific, comic, and moving-frequently all at the same time." Cooney's mentor, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Gene Wolfe, proclaims in his introduction that her style is so original it can only be described as "pure Cooney," and he offers readers a challenge: "Try to define that when you've finished the stories in this book."

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMythic Delirium Books
    Release dateJul 2, 2015
    ISBN9781513007892

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