Ordinary People: Volume 7 - Brossura

Arnason, Eleanor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0974655902 ISBN 13: 9780974655901

Casa editrice: Aqueduct Press, 2005

Riassunto

Spanning thirty years, this volume collects six stories, one poem, and a WisCon Guest of Honor speech. In the richly ironic “Warlords of Saturn's Moons,” first published in 1974, a cigar-puffing woman writes space-opera while the drama of real-life inner-city Detroit goes on around her; “The Grammarian's Five Daughters” offers a playful explication of the uses of the parts of speech; “A Ceremony of Discontent” takes a humorous approach to a modern-day feminist problem; and Arnason's wise, earthy tales of Hwarhath serve up new myths explaining the origins of the world and morality (among other things). The work in this collection entertains with its wit, delights with its precision and imagination, and challenges and provokes with its bluntness. Ordinary People offers a small, potent taste of the oeuvre of an important feminist sf author.

Reviews

”When I read Arnason, I am charmed, not only by the tales-as-tales but by a voice as unmistakable as that of Heinlein or Vance or Farmer: measured and precise and stealthily funny and full of homely wisdom.”

Russell Letson, Locus

”An Eleanor Arnason story collection is way overdue, and this is a very welcome book. I recommend it highly.”

Rich Horton, Locus

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Eleanor Arnason was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Washington DC, Honolulu, St. Paul and Minneapolis. She received a BA in art history from Swarthmore College and did graduate work at the University of Minnesota, before quitting to learn about life outside art museums and institutions of higher learning. She made her first professional sale in 1972 while living in the Detroit inner city. Since then she has published five novels and over thirty works of short fiction. Her fourth novel, A Woman of the Iron People (2001), won the James Tiptree Jr. award for gender-bending science fiction and the Mythopoeic Society Award for adult fantasy. Her fifth novel, Ring of Swords (1995), won a Minnesota Book Award. Since 1994 she has devoted herself to short fiction. Her story “Dapple” won the Spectrum Award for GLBT science fiction and was a finalist for the Sturgeon Award. Other stories have been finalists for the World Fantasy, Hugo and Nebula Awards. She lives in Minnesota, where she makes her living as the financial manager for a small arts nonprofit. Aside from accounting and science fiction, her interests include politics, economics, bird-watching, driving down two-lane country highways and exploring the remains of the Great Lakes industrial belt. In spite of all setbacks and adversity, she remains a lifelong fan of ordinary human decency and the international working class.

Product Description:

Book by Eleanor Arnason

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Aqueduct Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0974655902
• ISBN 13: 9780974655901
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 130