Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness

The third volume in the ground-breaking, genre-bending, boundary-pushing CLOCKWORK PHOENIX anthology series, available at last in digital format."Allen's third volume of extraordinary short stories reaches new heights of rarity and wonder ... Without a wrong note, all the stories in this anthology admirably fulfill Allen's promise of 'beauty and strangeness.'"-- Publishers WeeklyIncludes critically-acclaimed and award-nominated stories by Marie Brennan, Tori Truslow, Georgina Bruce, Michael M. Jones, Gemma Files, C.S.E. Cooney, Cat Rambo, Gregory Frost, Shweta Narayan, S.J. Hirons, John Grant, Kenneth Schneyer, John C. Wright, Nicole Kornher-Stace and Tanith Lee."With a balance of new names and established authors, the third CLOCKWORK PHOENIX installment collects some magnificent interpretations of fantastic ideas. ... CLOCKWORK PHOENIX delivers on its promise of both beauty and strangeness, and adds in some fright and a few new ways of looking at old tropes. All in all, it's a very successful collection of thematically similar, but wildly varied in subject, works. "-- BooklistWith a whimsical introduction and new afterword by Nebula Award-nominated editor Mike Allen." Allen continues to assemble some of the most adventurous, beauteous, and just plain weird stuff our current crop of speculative authors are capable of producing. Adventurous minds are invited to attend."-- Strange HorizonsCONTENTSThe Gospel of Nachash Marie BrennanTomorrow Is Saint Valentine's Day Tori TruslowCrow Voodoo Georgina BruceYour Name Is Eve Michael M. JonesHell Friend Gemma FilesBraiding the Ghosts C.S.E. CooneySurrogates Cat RamboLucyna's Gaze Gregory FrostEyes of Carven Emerald Shweta NarayanDragons of America S.J. HironsWhere Shadows Go at Low Midnight John GrantLineage Kenneth SchneyerMurder in Metachronopolis John C. WrightTo Seek Her Fortune Nicole Kornher-StaceFold Tanith Lee