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A collection of eleven stories from the New York Times-bestselling author, including Nebula Award winner "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand." This brilliant collection of short fiction showcases renowned author Vonda N. McIntyre's sparkling lyricism, captivating vision, and advocacy of the different. The titular story is one of alienation and discrimination, as a woman transformed into an "ugly" lifeform--a clumsy "digger"--seeks to escape her servitude to humans, but is denied sanctuary by the beautiful and graceful "flyers." Also included is the acclaimed story "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand," which became the first section of McIntyre's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, Dreamsnake. In it, a woman who harnesses the power of snakes' venom to heal saves the life of a nomad boy in the desert--but the price she pays may be too much to bear. In "Aztecs," later expanded into the novel Superluminal, a woman undergoes biological modifications in order to pilot ships during faster-than-light travel. "A quality selection . . . Zoning in on McIntyre's penchant for intense, dark stories with human pain and transcendence at their core . . . Fireflood, as with all of McIntyre's fiction, is written in a brooding, pulsing prose that drops the reader into a setting with little to orient themselves save the words on the page." --Speculiction "Eleven stories by one of the most widely admired of the younger science-fiction writers . . . From awkward to wonderful--an interesting record of an up-and-coming talent's present whereabouts." --Kirkus Reviews… (meer)
A collection of the author's shorter fiction, including the story which became chapter one of her novel, Dreamsnake, which I have previously reviewed. Quite a few of the stories involve the misuse of genetically altered humans or in one case, dolphins, by humans for often negative ends. A couple are about a winged species and the relationship of a younger and older individual. Most involve relationships sometimes across what amounts to a species barrier.
The best, apart from 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand', the Dreamsnake story, is the final story 'Aztecs' about the sacrifice which people who want to become pilots of interstellar craft - the ones who are able to stay awake during transit when even the ordinary crew have to go into stasis or die - sometimes have to make.
I found the tone of the collection on the whole rather downbeat. On the whole a balancing out into a 3-star read. ( )
Torrente de fuego; De Niebla, Hierba y Arena; Espectros; Alas; Las montañas del ocaso, las montañas del alba; El principio del fin; Tapón roscado; Sólo de noche; Recourse, Inc.; Los monstruos del genio; Aztecas
• Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand. 1973 [expanded as Dreamsnake] • Fireflood • Wings • The Mountains of Sunset, The Mountains of Dawn • The End's Beginning • Screwtop • Only at Night • Recourse, Inc. • The Genius Freaks • Aztecs ( )
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(Fireflood) Dark moved slowly along the bottom of a wide, swift river, pushing against its current.
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(Aztecs) When the shuttle came she boarded it, to return to her own city and her own people, the pilots, to live apart with them and never tell their secrets.
A collection of eleven stories from the New York Times-bestselling author, including Nebula Award winner "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand." This brilliant collection of short fiction showcases renowned author Vonda N. McIntyre's sparkling lyricism, captivating vision, and advocacy of the different. The titular story is one of alienation and discrimination, as a woman transformed into an "ugly" lifeform--a clumsy "digger"--seeks to escape her servitude to humans, but is denied sanctuary by the beautiful and graceful "flyers." Also included is the acclaimed story "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand," which became the first section of McIntyre's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, Dreamsnake. In it, a woman who harnesses the power of snakes' venom to heal saves the life of a nomad boy in the desert--but the price she pays may be too much to bear. In "Aztecs," later expanded into the novel Superluminal, a woman undergoes biological modifications in order to pilot ships during faster-than-light travel. "A quality selection . . . Zoning in on McIntyre's penchant for intense, dark stories with human pain and transcendence at their core . . . Fireflood, as with all of McIntyre's fiction, is written in a brooding, pulsing prose that drops the reader into a setting with little to orient themselves save the words on the page." --Speculiction "Eleven stories by one of the most widely admired of the younger science-fiction writers . . . From awkward to wonderful--an interesting record of an up-and-coming talent's present whereabouts." --Kirkus Reviews
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The best, apart from 'Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand', the Dreamsnake story, is the final story 'Aztecs' about the sacrifice which people who want to become pilots of interstellar craft - the ones who are able to stay awake during transit when even the ordinary crew have to go into stasis or die - sometimes have to make.
I found the tone of the collection on the whole rather downbeat. On the whole a balancing out into a 3-star read. (