Sword and Sonnet

Sword and Sonnet

by Tony PiHayley Stone S.L. Huang and others
Publication Date: 05/09/2018

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Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the Aurealis Award and the Ditmar Award.


Sword and Sonnet contains twenty-three fantasy and science fiction stories featuring battle poets. A poet in search of the dragon her mother banished. A labyrinth that is the last sanctuary against the hunger consuming the world. A gunslinger who kills with a single word. A machete-wielding poet defending her street against the children of revenge. A spaceship-devouring poet who sings to the stars.


With stories from:

Alex Acks, C.S.E. Cooney, Matt Dovey, Malon Edwards, Spencer Ellsworth, Ingrid Garcia, Samantha Henderson, S.L. Huang, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, Cassandra Khaw, Margo Lanagan, Kira Lees, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Anya Ow, Tony Pi, A.E. Prevost, A. Merc Rustad, Carlie St. George, Victoria Sandbrook, Hayley Stone, Setsu Uzume, Suzanne J. Willis and A.C. Wise

ISBN:
9781386803508
9781386803508
Category:
Short stories
Publication Date:
05-09-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ate Bit Bear
Spencer Ellsworth

Spencer Ellsworth's short fiction has previously appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Tor.com.

He is the author of the Starfire trilogy, which begins with Starfire: A Red Peace. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and three children, works as a teacher/administrator at a small tribal college on a Native American reservation.

Cassandra Khaw

Cassandra Khaw is the USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth and the Bram Stoker Award-winner, Breakable Things. Other notable works of theirs are The Salt Grows Heavy and British Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist, Hammers on Bone.

Khaw’s work can be found in places like The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Tor.com. Khaw is also the co-author of The Dead Take the A Train, co-written with bestselling author Richard Kadrey.

Margo Lanagan

Margo Lanagan is an acclaimed writer of novels and short stories. Black Juice was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, and won two World Fantasy Awards and the Victorian Premier's Award for Young Adult Fiction.

Red Spikes won the CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a Horn Book Fanfare title, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

Her novel Tender Morsels won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and was an Honor Book in the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.

Her novel Sea Hearts was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and won a WA Premiers Book Award, the CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers, The Norma K Hemming Award and the Barbara Jefferis Award, an Indie Award and an Aurealis Award among many other honours.

Zeroes, and its sequel Swarm, co-authored with Scott Westerfeld and Deborah Biancotti, were New York Times bestsellers.

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