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Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories

by Elizabeth Bear · 2008

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Short fiction from Elizabeth Bear, recipient of the "John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer." Includes her Hugo- and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winning "Tideline" and Hugo-winning novelette, "Shoggoths in Bloom," as well as an original, never-published story. A World Fantasy, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick nominee, Bear is one of speculative fiction's most acclaimed, respected, and prolific authors.

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Content

Tideline

Sonny Liston Takes the Fall

Sounding

The Something-Dreaming Game

The Cold Blacksmith

In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns

Orm the Beautiful

The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe

Love Among the Talus

Cryptic Coloration

The Ladies

Shoggoths in Bloom

The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder

Dolly

Gods of the Forge

Annie Webber

The Horrid Glory of Its Wings

Confessor

The Leavings of the Wolf

The Death of Terrestrial Radio

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adult
Length
medium · 336 pages
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