<div>This internationally acclaimed winner of the Finlandia Award is &ldquo;a brilliant and dark parable about the fluid boundaries between human and animal&rdquo; (The Boston Globe). Angel, a young photographer, comes home from a night of carousing to find a group of drunken teenagers in the courtyard of his apartment building, taunting a wounded, helpless young troll. He takes it in, not suspecting the dramatic consequences of this decision. What does one do with a troll in the city? As the troll&rsquo;s presence influences Angel&rsquo;s life in ways he could never have predicted, it becomes clear that the creature is the familiar of man&rsquo;s most forbidden feelings. A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a wry, beguiling story of nature and man&rsquo;s relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness in ourselves. &ldquo;[An] imaginative and engaging novel of urban fantasy . . . The stuff of ancient legend shadows with rather unnerving precision the course of unloosed postmodern desire.&rdquo; &mdash;Chris Lehmann, The Washington Post Book World</div>

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<div>The Finnish author of Troll: A Love Story delivers a work of &ldquo;scathing satire . . . that sits somewhere between Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut&rdquo; (NPR). The Core of the Sun further cements Finlandia Award&ndash;winning author Johanna Sinisalo&rsquo;s reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country&rsquo;s unique take on it, dubbed &ldquo;Finnish weird.&rdquo; In an alternative historical present, The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated to menial labor and sterilized so that they do not carry on their &ldquo;defective&rdquo; line. Vanna, raised as an eloi but secretly intelligent, needs money to find her sister, who has disappeared. Vanna forms a friendship with a man named Jare, and they become involved in buying and selling a stimulant known to the Health Authority to be extremely dangerous: chili peppers. Then Jare comes across a strange religious cult in possession of the Core of the Sun, a chili so hot that it is rumored to cause hallucinations&mdash;a temptation so enticing that it just might divert the addicted Vanna from her quest . . . &ldquo;A chilling tale reminiscent of Margaret Atwood&rsquo;s The Handmaid&rsquo;s Tale . . . A fascinating story centered on gender politics.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post</div>

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<div>Shapeshifting stories by Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Midori Snyder, Jane Yolen, and others: &ldquo;Rich reading that meets the editors&rsquo; high standards.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews In world mythology, transformation legends are attached to almost every type of animal: a variety of birds, fish, reptiles, and even insects. In this book, you&rsquo;ll find stories inspired by such myths from around the world, retold and reimagined by some of the very best writers in the realm of fantasy and science fiction. In &ldquo;The Puma&rsquo;s Daughter&rdquo; by World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning author Tanith Lee, a boy betrothed to a girl from a powerful family in the hills hears whispered rumors about his intended that describe her golden hair, her strength&mdash;and her ability to transform into a great cat. A man brings his boyfriend to his conservative hometown, teaching his little sister a lot about acceptance&mdash;and mermen&mdash;in &ldquo;Map of Seventeen&rdquo; by Stonewall Honor Award&ndash;author Christopher Barzak. And in &ldquo;The Hikikomori&rdquo; by Hiromi Goto, winner of the Commonwealth Writers&rsquo; Prize, a misfit fifteen-year-old girl, bullied at school, discovers her true form&mdash;and heroic purpose. &ldquo;Twenty-two short stories and poems speak to the fascination with therianthropy (animal-human metamorphosis). From riffs on Beauty and the Beast to original tales of sexuality and an adolescent yeti, well-known fantasy and sci-fi authors create morsels that address themes as varied as coming-of-age and the environment&mdash;all while changing people into animals and vice versa.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;This collection will appeal to fantasy lovers as it provides both stories by beloved authors and exciting new voices to discover.&rdquo; &mdash;School Library Journal &ldquo;A top-to-bottom very readable, engaging, book.&rdquo; &mdash;SF Site</div>

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