Venn, a fickle and restless young musician, is drawn to the “lost planet” of Habille where, it is said, human nature has changed, and love once experienced can never die.

In an afterword written especially for this edition, Lisa Tuttle explains her controversial decision to refuse the Nebula Award for this story.

“Tuttle creates out of a genuinely strange imagination... ‘The Bone Flute,’ literally haunting, is possibly the best of its kind that I have read.” -- Josephine Saxton in The New Statesman.

“‘The Bone Flute’, literally haunting, is possibly the best of its kind that I have read.” Josephine Saxton, The New Statesman