by Molly Gloss
First published 2019
This career-spanning collection brings together nineteen stories from acclaimed author Molly Gloss. The volume includes celebrated pieces like "Lambing Season," where rural isolation meets mysterious encounters, and "Personal Silence," exploring communication across impossible distances. Stories such as "Seaborne" and "Downstream" examine characters navigating environmental and personal transformations. "The Visited Man" delves into contact between worlds, while "Dead Men Rise Up Never" confronts mortality and memory. Three previously unpublished stories appear alongside sixteen that have never been collected together before. Gloss writes with precision about people facing the unknown, whether through alien contact, environmental change, or the mysteries within human relationships. Her characters inhabit landscapes both familiar and strange, from rural communities to futures shaped by ecological crisis. The collection reveals recurring themes of connection and isolation, the relationship between humans and nature, and the ways people adapt when their worlds shift beneath them.
Genres: short-stories, science-fiction, literary-fiction, fantasy
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: characters-facing-unknown, navigating-transformations
Setting: Rural Communities, Futures Shaped By Ecological Crisis
Period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century
352 pages · Hardcover · Gallery / Saga Press