The Bride Price
Published on 31. May 2013
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-921857-42-3 (ISBN)
Description
The debut collection by multi-award-winning writer Cat Sparks. Inside are 13 stories, including the Ditmar-winning A Lady of Adestan, Seventeen and All the Love in the World and the Aurealis Award-winning Hollywood Roadkill and Sammarynda Deep.
"A vigorous and versatile writer with a keen eye and a wide and varied palette"
Gardner Dozois
"These stories will hook you with one weird world after another, and propel you to the end with typical Sparks-y energy."
Margo Lanagan
"Cat Sparks is a talented writer with an artist's sensibility. From fantasy lands of her own creation to far out in worlds in space and all places in between, there is never a dull moment in her stories."
Ann Vandermeer
"Read this book because you have surprises and treats and satisfaction in store if you do. Then recommend it to your friends."
David G. Hartwell
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Murrumbateman, NSW
Australia
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
636 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-921857-42-3 (9781921857423)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Cat Sparks was fiction editor of Cosmos Magazine from 2010-2016. She managed Agog! Press, an Australian independent press that produced ten anthologies of new speculative fiction from 2002-2008. She's known for her award-winning editing, writing, graphic design and photography. Her short story collection The Bride Price was published by Ticonderoga Publications in May, 2013. The book was nominated for an Aurealis Award and won the Ditmar for Best Collected Work in 2014. Her debut novel, Lotus Blue, was published by Skyhorse Press this year.