| Title | : | Cracklescape |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Margo Lanagan |
| Release | : | 2021-01-18 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Horror, Books, Fiction & Literature |
| Size | : | 124923 |
| A presence haunts an old dresser in an inner-city share house. Shining sun-people lure children from their carefree beachside lives. Sheela-na-gigs colonise a middle-aged man’s outer and inner worlds. And a girl with a heavy conscience seeks relief in exile on the Treeless Plain. These stories from four-time World Fantasy Award winner Margo Lanagan are all set in Australia, a myth-soaked landscape both stubbornly inscrutable and crisscrossed by interlopers’ dreamings. Explore four littoral and liminal worlds, a-crackle with fears and possibilities. Table of Contents - Introduction by Jane Yolen - The Duchess Dresser - Isles of the Sun - Bajazzle - Significant Dust AWARDS "Bajazzle" - winner Fantasy Short Story, Aurealis Award "Significant Dust" - winner Science Fiction Short Story, Aurealis Award "The Isles of the Sun" - shortlisted Fantasy Short Story, Aurealis Award "Bajazzle" - reprinted in Award Winning Australian Writing. These stories from four-time World Fantasy Award winner Margo Lanagan are all set in Australia, a myth-soaked landscape both stubbornly inscrutable and crisscrossed by interlopers’ dreamings. Explore four littoral and liminal worlds, a-crackle with fears and possibilities. ABOUT THE TWELVE PLANETS SERIES Twelfth Planet Press is an independent publishing house challenging the status quo with books that interrogate, commentate, inspire. The Twelve Planets are twelve boutique collections by some of Australia’s finest short story writers. Varied across genre and style, each collection offers four short stories and a unique glimpse into worlds fashioned by some of our favourite storytellers. Each author has taken the brief of 4 stories and up to 40 000 words in their own direction. Some are quartet suites of linked stories. Others are tasters of the range and style of the writer. Each release is a standalone and brings something unexpected. The Twelve Planets Book 1: Nightsiders by Sue Isle Book 2: Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts Book 3: Thief of Lives by Lucy Sussex Book 4: Bad Power by Deborah Biancotti Book 5: Showtime by Narrelle M Harris Book 6: Through Splintered Walls by Kaaron Warren Book 7: Cracklescape by Margo Lanagan Book 8: Asymmetry by Thoraiya Dyer Book 9: Caution: Contains Small Parts by Kirstyn McDermott Book 10: Secret Lives of Books by Rosaleen Love Book 11: The Female Factory by Angela Slatter and Lisa Hannet Book 12: Cherry Crow Children by Deborah Kalin |
