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Straying From the Path

by Carrie Vaughn · 2011

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Best known for her New York Timesbestselling urban fantasy novels, Carrie Vaughn has also written dozens of short stories for Talebones, , and many other magazines and anthologies.

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Collected here for the first time are ten of her favorite hard-to-classify stories covering the full range of speculative fiction — science fiction, fantasy, horror — sometimes all in the same story. Read about Emily Dickinson's dog, women pilots in WWII, future Hollywood, a haunted Europa, and more!

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adult
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short · 196 pages
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