num_pages: 218
description: Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick's twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless killer who protects her; a wolf who is willingly ensnared by a devious academic; a businessman resurrected to play at politics; and an ingenious mouse dreaming beyond the laboratory. With the perceptiveness of Joyce Carol Oates, the inventiveness of Ray Bradbury, and the emotional resonance of Alice Sebold, The Fate of Mice is a meditation on the very art of storytelling: mythic, beautiful, and often brutal, filled with authentic compassion.  
language: English
title: The Fate of Mice
titlecomplete: The Fate of Mice
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Vampires, Collections, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Adult, Fantasy, Fairy Tales
ratings_count: 219
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award
category: "Elephant"
publisher: Tachyon Publications