I"m same way. I've gone completely to eBooks with very few exceptions. Hoping it shows up either at my library or at KOBO.Thanks for the heads-up! I enjoy a good short-story collection, and will be getting this as soon as that "coming soon" epub version is available.
(Sorry, I mean no disrespect, but even if I hadn't already switched to almost 100% ebooks for my non-Star Trek reading, there's no way on this planet I'm spending C$70 in shipping fees to ship a book here...And that's just the cheaper option, I also have the choice of paying C$106 for "express" shipping.
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Those NESFA Press editions are always very nice pieces of work. I have both of their Cordwainer Smith volumes, almost all of their Lois McMaster Bujold ones, their David Gerrold one, and at least one or two others, I think. You're in august company, Greg!
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Thanks! Enjoy!
I'm intrigued to hear what people think of this eclectic collection of old and new stories.
A Curiosity of Cats is the latest in a series of steampunk anthologies done in conjunction with the Tell-Tale Steampunk Festival. The stories are all inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll and, in honor of the Chesire Cat, all the stories have at least one cat in it.
My story, "Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say," introduces a new character of mine, Signora Spada, a turn-of-the-20th-century Italian swordswoman-for-hire. She's tasked with rescuing a boy who's been kidnapped, and her mission brings her to a most bizarre tea party......
Tell-Tale is a lovely little steampunk convention that every year has an author as its focus -- previous cons have featured Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and (jointly) Mary Shelley & Bram Stoker. This year, it's Carroll. Also at each convention, eSpec has done a companion anthology with steampunk stories inspired by that year's author(s). The previous ones are A Cast of Crows, A Cry of Hounds (which has my Professor Challenger story "Progenitor"), and An Assembly of Monsters (which has my story "The Immoral Immortal," and the limited-edition hardcover has a bonus story by me, also, "When Winzy Met Verney: The Mortal Immortal Encounters the Last Man").
My story, "Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say," introduces a new character of mine, Signora Spada, a turn-of-the-20th-century Italian swordswoman-for-hire. She's tasked with rescuing a boy who's been kidnapped, and her mission brings her to a most bizarre tea party......
Tell-Tale is a lovely little steampunk convention that every year has an author as its focus -- previous cons have featured Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and (jointly) Mary Shelley & Bram Stoker. This year, it's Carroll. Also at each convention, eSpec has done a companion anthology with steampunk stories inspired by that year's author(s). The previous ones are A Cast of Crows, A Cry of Hounds (which has my Professor Challenger story "Progenitor"), and An Assembly of Monsters (which has my story "The Immoral Immortal," and the limited-edition hardcover has a bonus story by me, also, "When Winzy Met Verney: The Mortal Immortal Encounters the Last Man").
I found your eBook. I'll be purchasing it later this week. It sound like a fun book.
Thanks! I flatter myself that it's a real grab-bag of genres and tones, including a weird western involving Bigfoot, another story about a little boy whose math homework is about to get him, and a grisly mash-up of Night of the Living Dead and The Brain That Would Not Die titled, of course, "Night of the Living Brain."
And a cyberpunk spoof that was basically my attempt to do "Woody Allen meets William Gibson." Really.
Thanks for the tip-off! I was waiting for the ebook to become available, and now it looks like it has. Just purchased it just now!
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