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Roam through the captivating stories of World Fantasy and Mythopoeic Award winner Theodora Goss (the Athena Club trilogy). This themed collection of imaginary places, with three new stories, recalls Susanna Clarke's alternate Europe and the surreal metafictions of Jorge Luis Borges.
"The elegance of Goss's work has never ceased to amaze me."
-Catherynne M. Valente, author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The infamous girl monsters of nineteenth-century fiction gather in London and form their own club. In the imaginary country of Thüle, characters from folklore band together to fight a dictator. An intrepid girl reporter finds the hidden land of Oz-and joins its invasion of our world. The author writes the autobiography of her alternative life and a science fiction love letter to Budapest. The White Witch conquers England with snow and silence.
Deeply influenced by the author's Hungarian childhood during the regime of the Soviet Union, each of these intricate stories engages with storytelling and identity, including Goss's own. World Fantasy, Locus, and Mythopoeic Award-winning author and poet Theodora Goss was born in Hungary, and spent her childhood in various European countries before her family moved to the United States. Goss is the author of the novel trilogy The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, and The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl. Her short story and poetry collections include In the Forest of Forgetting, Songs for Ophelia, and Snow White Learns Witchcraft. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and Shirley Jackson Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Goss's work has also been translated into fifteen languages. Currently, she teaches at several creative writing workshops, and in written, oral, and visual rhetoric at Boston University. Visit her at theodoragoss.com. 1). The Mad Scientist's Daughter
2). Dora/Dóra: An Autobiography
3). Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology
4). England Under the White Witch
5). Frankenstein's Daughter
6). Come See the Living Dryad
7). Beautiful Boys
8). Pug
9). A Letter to Merlin
10). Estella Saves the Village
11). Pellargonia: A Letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology
12). Lost Girls of Oz
13). To Budapest, with Love
14). Child-Empress of Mars
15). Letters to an Imaginary Country
16). The Secret Diary of Mina Harker "World Fantasy Award winner Goss (the Athena Club trilogy) delivers a wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories set in 16 distinct fantastical worlds. In 'England Under the White Witch,' a permanent winter settles over Britain after the eponymous sorceress raises an army of women who find empowerment in her icy dominion. 'Beautiful Boys' takes the form of a scientific treatise on an alien race whose sole purpose is reproduction. The pageantry and politics of 'Child-Empress of Mars' makes it a standout, as an immortal child ruler engineers a grand heroic quest for a mysterious newcomer, unaware that her 'chosen one' is actually a bewildered ranch hand from Earth. Across the collection, Goss blends fantastical premises with meditations on history, identity, and the art of storytelling, often drawing from her own Hungarian childhood. There is a distinctive undercurrent of wonder and menace to the tales, each one told with lush prose and sly wit. Readers willing to linger in Goss's intricately wrought landscapes will find themselves amply rewarded."
-Publishers Weekly
"In the tradition of great modern fantasists like Angela Carter and Marina Warner, Theodora Goss's sublime tales are modern classics-beautiful, sly, sensual and deeply moving."
-Elizabeth Hand, winner of the Mythopoeic, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards
"Wildly imaginative, gloriously sneaky, delicious tales of monsters and the terrible and beautiful sublimity
"The elegance of Goss's work has never ceased to amaze me."
-Catherynne M. Valente, author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The infamous girl monsters of nineteenth-century fiction gather in London and form their own club. In the imaginary country of Thüle, characters from folklore band together to fight a dictator. An intrepid girl reporter finds the hidden land of Oz-and joins its invasion of our world. The author writes the autobiography of her alternative life and a science fiction love letter to Budapest. The White Witch conquers England with snow and silence.
Deeply influenced by the author's Hungarian childhood during the regime of the Soviet Union, each of these intricate stories engages with storytelling and identity, including Goss's own. World Fantasy, Locus, and Mythopoeic Award-winning author and poet Theodora Goss was born in Hungary, and spent her childhood in various European countries before her family moved to the United States. Goss is the author of the novel trilogy The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman, and The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl. Her short story and poetry collections include In the Forest of Forgetting, Songs for Ophelia, and Snow White Learns Witchcraft. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, and Shirley Jackson Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Goss's work has also been translated into fifteen languages. Currently, she teaches at several creative writing workshops, and in written, oral, and visual rhetoric at Boston University. Visit her at theodoragoss.com. 1). The Mad Scientist's Daughter
2). Dora/Dóra: An Autobiography
3). Cimmeria: From the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology
4). England Under the White Witch
5). Frankenstein's Daughter
6). Come See the Living Dryad
7). Beautiful Boys
8). Pug
9). A Letter to Merlin
10). Estella Saves the Village
11). Pellargonia: A Letter to the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology
12). Lost Girls of Oz
13). To Budapest, with Love
14). Child-Empress of Mars
15). Letters to an Imaginary Country
16). The Secret Diary of Mina Harker "World Fantasy Award winner Goss (the Athena Club trilogy) delivers a wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories set in 16 distinct fantastical worlds. In 'England Under the White Witch,' a permanent winter settles over Britain after the eponymous sorceress raises an army of women who find empowerment in her icy dominion. 'Beautiful Boys' takes the form of a scientific treatise on an alien race whose sole purpose is reproduction. The pageantry and politics of 'Child-Empress of Mars' makes it a standout, as an immortal child ruler engineers a grand heroic quest for a mysterious newcomer, unaware that her 'chosen one' is actually a bewildered ranch hand from Earth. Across the collection, Goss blends fantastical premises with meditations on history, identity, and the art of storytelling, often drawing from her own Hungarian childhood. There is a distinctive undercurrent of wonder and menace to the tales, each one told with lush prose and sly wit. Readers willing to linger in Goss's intricately wrought landscapes will find themselves amply rewarded."
-Publishers Weekly
"In the tradition of great modern fantasists like Angela Carter and Marina Warner, Theodora Goss's sublime tales are modern classics-beautiful, sly, sensual and deeply moving."
-Elizabeth Hand, winner of the Mythopoeic, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards
"Wildly imaginative, gloriously sneaky, delicious tales of monsters and the terrible and beautiful sublimity