Mythspring: From the Lyrics and Legends of Canada
by Julie Czerneda (Editor), Genevieve Kierans (Editor)
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Aurora Award - Best Work in English (Other), Nominee 2007 Aurora Award - Best Short-Form Work in English finalist for: All the Cool Monsters at Once, James Alan Gardner This Ink Feels Like Sorrow, Karin Lowachee What happens When myth Meets storyteller? Something new is born. Mythspring Song and story. Myth and tradition. They are a shared legacy that both satisfies and inspires. Join these talented authors as they celebrate the rich, diverse, and occasionally truly odd culture of our show more country. Mythspring is an anthology of original short speculative fiction, including fantasy, science fiction, and horror, where each story is derived from a Canadian song, folktale, myth, or other cultural source. Excerpts of the source text or image appears in the book with each story, along with a brief description of how the author was inspired by it. Includes stories from notable speculative fiction authors such as Charles de Lint James Alan Gardener Alison Baird Tanya Huff and Karin Lowachee. The stories will be suitable for an older young adult audience, and the book will be of great interest to educators. It will be included as a "special event" volume within the Realms of Wonder series of original fantasy anthologies. Be inspired. Celebrate our wealth of ideas and talent. Taste the delights of Mythspring. show lessTags
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Former biologist Julie Czerneda's science fiction has received international acclaim, awards, and best-selling status. She is author of the popular Web Shifters series as well as the Trade Pact Universe trilogy. She was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her stand-alone novel, In the Company of Others, won Canada's Prix show more Aurora Award and was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished SF. Julie lives with her husband and two children in the lake country of central Ontario, under skies so clear they could take seeing the Milky Way for granted, but never do show less
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- 813.087660806 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Fantasy Collections
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- PR9197.35 .F35 .M98 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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