Co-presented by Elliott Bay Book Company
Friday, November 13, 2009
7pm at Elliott Bay Book Company
101 S Main St, Seattle, WA 98104 (map)
Tickets: Free!
“These fourteen superbly written stories will weave around you a ring of dark, dark magic.” – The eminent novelist and critic Ursula K. Le Guin
Filter House, winner of the Tiptree Award, collects fourteen stories by Nisi Shawl, with an introduction by Eileen Gunn (author of Stable Strategies and Others). The collection offers a haunting montage that works its magic subtly on the reader’s subconscious. As Karen Joy Fowler, Author of The Jane Austen Book Club says, ”This lovely collection will take you, like a magic carpet, to some strange and wonderful places.” Nisi Shawl’s stories of speculative fiction, which have appeared in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Asimov’s SF Magazine, and the Dark Matter anthologies, have been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon, Gaylactic Spectrum, and World Fantasy Awards. She is the co-editor of Strange Matings: Octavia Butler, Science Fiction and Feminism (forthcoming) the co-author of Writing the Other, a guide to developing characters of varying racial, ethnic, and sexual backgrounds, a co-founder of the Carl Brandon Society, and a member of the Clarion West Writers Workshop Board of Directors.
