Description
This volume of stories and novellas collects some of Ores valuable fiction of the 1990s, work that continues to be of vital interest with a strong focus on persistent issues that remain urgent in our current world. In Hypocaust & Bathysphere, time-traveling academics more than meet their match in the medieval inhabitants they assume are na?e and ignorant and easily studied. The historians exploring Americas past in Scarey Rose in Deep History uncover secrets in Americas past that challenge them personally to the core. Stone Whorl Flint Knife and Horse Tracks, set in Ores Bracken County where magic works and logic doesnt, are tales of love and vengeance that play out amidst that countys high-stakes power struggles. In Collected Ogoense, the volumes title story, an underpaid biologist toiling over dangerous pathogens seeks refuge from the bleakness of her existence in her passion for African killifish until treachery takes her refuge from her and launches her into the obsession for revenge. Accelerated Grimace, on the 1998 Otherwise Award Honor List, explores the effects of a technology on the transactional relationship between an artist and his muse/trophy wife whose great ambition is to be a famous artists widow.
Ore, Rebecca
Author: Rebecca Ore
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aqueduct Press
Published: 12/01/2023
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.61h x 5.58w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781619762480
Language: English
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