Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller

by Carol Emshwiller, Matthew Cheney (Editor), Kelly Link (Foreword by)

Overview

Carol Emshwiller’s writing career spanned sixty years, and the roughly 150 stories she published appeared in pulp magazines and literary journals and everything in between — earning her the Pushcart Prize, multiple Nebula Awards, and a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Moon Songs selects a representative sample of stories from every era of Emshwiller's work, providing readers new and old with a guidebook to a unique vision. Wry and ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking, poignant and poetic, these tales stand as testament to the vivid imagination of an original and uncompromising writer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798989908936
Publisher:	Third Man Books
Publication date:	08/05/2025
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019) published her first short story in 1955, and became a regular contributor to science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as literary journals. Her books include the World Fantasy Award-winning collection The Start of the End of It All, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Mount, and two volumes of Collected Stories. Her short stories won a Pushcart Prize and two Nebula Awards, and in 2005 she received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

Editorial Reviews

Emshwiller’s readers know her to be a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

“Carol Emshwiller’s imagination is fierce and funny, never mean. She creates people, situations, and combinations of words that make me read her sentences and paragraphs again and again for the sheer pleasure of reading.” —Grace Paley

“Carol Emshwiller’s stories are wonder-filled, necessary, and beautifully crafted.” —Samuel R. Delany

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