The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories

The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories
Nina Allan
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Paperback
h203 x 130mm - 480pg
7 Sep 2021 UK
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9781789091755
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A collection of short stories from the award-winning author of The Rift and The Dollmaker, Nina Allan. This compilation brings together rarely seen tales spanning the vast breadth of Allan' s writing career for the first time. It also includes a brand-new introduction and one never-before-published story. Locus has described Nina as ' a subversive writer. . . playing with both the familiar protocols of genre and with the nature of the reading experience itself. ' This is a stunning collection from one of the most astute and innovative voices writing today.
Praise for The Art of Space Travel and Other StoriesNina Allan is a writer of rare talent. The Art of Space Travel addresses life' s biggest questions with such delicacy and tenderness that you won' t fear staring into the abyss. - Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger and The DeepNina Allan is a great writer of the fantastic, here to remind us how weird it is to be alive. Her stories have a quiet urgency to them; they are moving and gripping and wholly themselves. Their strangeness helps us make sense of our own. This is a rare collection, to read, to ponder, to treasure. - Francesco Dimitri, author of The Book of Hidden ThingsPraise for Nina Allan: A captivating exploration of community, tragedy and memory. Nina Allan' s writing is enthralling. -Irenosen Okojie, on The Good NeighboursA fantastic book -Andrew O' Hagan, on The DollmakerHer literary sensibility fuses the fantastic and the mundane to great effect -The Guardian, on The DollmakerA subversive writer. . . playing with both the familiar protocols of genre and with the nature of the reading experience itself -Locus, on The RiftBrilliantly ambiguous -Tor. com, on The RiftOne of the best books published this year in any genre -Strange Horizons, on The Rift
Nina Allan' s debut novel The Race was shortlisted for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the BSFA Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle. Her follow-up The Rift won the BSFA Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle. She has won the BSFA Award for Short Fiction, the Grand Prix de l' Imaginaire, and the Aeon Award. She has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award four times and was a finalist for the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award. She blogs at ninaallan. co. uk.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789091755
Published: 7 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Titan Books
Publisher: Titan Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 130mm
Weight: 368g
Pages: 480

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