<div>Winner of the World Fantasy Award: New twists on classic fairy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, Robin McKinley, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, and more. Long ago, when we were children, our dreams were inspired by the fairy tales we heard at our mothers&rsquo; and grandmothers&rsquo; knees&mdash;stories of princesses and princes and witches and wondrous enchantments, by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, and from the pages of 1001 Arabian Nights. But, as World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling remind us, these stories were often tamed and sanitized versions. The originals were frequently darker&mdash;and in Silver Birch, Blood Moon, they turn darker still. Twenty-one modern Grimms and Andersens&mdash;masterful storytellers including Neil Gaiman, Nancy Kress, and Tanith Lee&mdash;now reinvent beloved bedtime stories for our time. The Sea Witch gets her say, relating the story of &ldquo;The Little Mermaid&rdquo; from her own point of view. &ldquo;Thumbelina&rdquo; becomes a tale of creeping horror, while a delightfully naughty spin is put on &ldquo;The Emperor&rsquo;s New Clothes.&rdquo; Author Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan transports Snow White to a dark, gritty, industrial urban setting, and Patricia Briggs details &ldquo;The Price&rdquo; of dealing with a royal and unrepentantly evil Rumpelstiltskin. Rich, provocative, and unabashedly adult, each of these tales is a modern treasure, reminding us that wishes have consequences and not all genies have our best interests at heart.</div>

Silver Birch, Blood Moon

<div>Dark and decidedly grown-up stories inspired by fairy tales&mdash;from New York Times bestsellers Karen Joy Fowler, Joyce Carol Oates, Susanna Clarke, and more. This collection from World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling proves that fairy tales don&rsquo;t have to be for little children and that happily ever after doesn&rsquo;t necessarily mean forever. Here, the plights of Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel, and others are reimagined by some of today&rsquo;s finest literary talents. Hansel and Gretel make several appearances, not the least being at their trial for the murder of a supposedly helpless old woman. The real, shocking reason for Snow White&rsquo;s desperate flight from her home is revealed. And the steadfast tin soldier, made flesh and blood, pays a terrible price for his love and devotion. The twenty-one stories and poems in this collection run the gamut from triumphant to troubling to utterly outrageous, like Don Webb&rsquo;s brilliant merging of numerous tales into one wild, hallucinogenic trip in his &ldquo;Three Dwarves and 2000 Maniacs.&rdquo; All in all, they mine the fantastical yarns we loved as children for new and darker gold. Includes stories by Michael Cadnum, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Blumlein, Nalo Hopkinson, Esther M. Friesner, Joyce Carol Oates, Steve Rasnic Tem, Garry Kilworth, Anne Bishop, Gregory Frost, Sten Westgard, Midori Snyder, Harvey Jacobs, Don Webb, Bruce Glassco, Pat Murphy, John Crowley, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Susanna Clarke, Nancy Kress, and Jane Yolen. </div>

Black Swan, White Raven

<div>From the SFWA Grand Master, a&ldquo;sexy, disturbing, touching, wildly comic . . . tour de force&rdquo; that blends fantasy, women&rsquo;s history, and slavery (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather to bury a stillborn baby. Led by a lesbian healer and midwife named Mer, the women&rsquo;s lamentations inadvertently release the dead infant&rsquo;s &ldquo;unused vitality&rdquo; to draw Ezili&mdash;the Afro-Caribbean goddess of sexual desire and love&mdash;into the physical world. As Ezili explores her newfound powers, she travels across time and space to inhabit the midwife&rsquo;s body, as well as those of Jeanne&mdash;a mixed-race dancer and the mistress of Charles Baudelaire living in 1880s Paris&mdash;and Meritet, an enslaved Greek-Nubian prostitute in ancient Alexandria. Bound together by Ezili and &ldquo;the salt road&rdquo; of their sweat, blood, and tears, the three women struggle against a hostile world, unaware of the goddess&rsquo;s presence in their lives. Despite her magic, Mer suffers as a slave on a sugar plantation until Ezili plants the seeds of uprising in her mind. Jeanne slowly succumbs to the ravages of age and syphilis when her lover is unable to escape his mother&rsquo;s control. And Meritet, inspired by Ezili, flees her enslavement and makes a pilgrimage to Egypt, where she becomes known as Saint Mary. With unapologetically sensual prose, Nalo Hopkinson, the Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of Midnight Robber, explores slavery through the lives of three historical women touched by a goddess in this &ldquo;electrifying bravura performance by one of our most important writers&rdquo; (Junot D&iacute;az).</div>

The Salt Roads

<div>The SFWA Grand Master&rsquo;s award-winning collection &ldquo;combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling&rdquo; (Library Journal). In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best, spinning tales like &ldquo;Precious,&rdquo; in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In &ldquo;A Habit of Waste,&rdquo; a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she&rsquo;s shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In &ldquo;The Glass Bottle Trick,&rdquo; the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband&rsquo;s superstitions&mdash;to horrifying consequences. Hopkinson&rsquo;s unique pacing and vibrant dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed. Praise for Nalo Hopkinson and the World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning Skin Folk &ldquo;Hopkinson&rsquo;s prose is vivid and immediate.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Book World &ldquo;An important new writer.&rdquo; &mdash;The Dallas Morning News &ldquo;Her descriptions of ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances ring true, the result of her strong evocation of place and her ear for dialect.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A marvelous display of Nalo Hopkinson&rsquo;s talents, skills and insights into the human conditions of life, especially of the fantastic realities of the Caribbean . . . Everything is possible in her imagination.&rdquo; &mdash;Science Fiction Chronicle</div>

Skin Folk

<div>Two monumental works from the SFWA Grand Master who is &ldquo;preparing to take her place among the world&rsquo;s most celebrated black women writers&rdquo; (Toronto Star). Experience the rich imagination and genre-defying writing of multiple-award-winning author Nalo Hopkinson with this special volume, which includes both her epic novel spanning time and place, and her first collection of short fiction. The Salt Roads When an Afro-Caribbean goddess of sexual desire and love is manifested on a nineteenth-century Caribbean island, she explores her newfound powers by traveling through time and space, inhabiting a midwife, a mixed-race Parisian dancer, and an enslaved prostitute in ancient Alexandria. &ldquo;Should be required reading for the next century. An electrifying, bravura performance by one of our most important writers.&rdquo; &mdash;Junot D&iacute;az Skin Folk With works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, this story collection illustrates why Hopkinson received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed. &ldquo;A marvelous display of Nalo Hopkinson&rsquo;s talents, skills and insights into the human conditions of life, especially of the fantastic realities of the Caribbean . . . Everything is possible in her imagination.&rdquo; &mdash;Science Fiction Chronicle</div>

Nalo Hopkinson

Books By Nalo Hopkinson (5 Books)

Silver Birch, Blood Moon

Black Swan, White Raven

The Salt Roads

Skin Folk

Skin Folk and The Salt Roads

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Books By Nalo Hopkinson (5 Books)

Silver Birch, Blood Moon

Black Swan, White Raven

The Salt Roads

Skin Folk

Skin Folk and The Salt Roads

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