num_pages: 272
description: These inter-connected stories are set in an opulent quasi-historical world of magick and high manners called the Republic of Califa. The Republic is a strangely familiar placea baroque approximation of Gold Rush era-California with an overlay of Aztec ceremonyyet the characters who populate it are true originals: rockstar magicians murderous gloves bouncing boy terrors blue tinted butlers sentient squids and a three-year-old Little Tiny Doom and her vengeful pink plush pig. By turn whimsical and horrific (sometime in the same paragraph) Wilce's stories have been characterized as screwball comedies for goths but they could also be described as historical fantasies or fanciful histories for there are nuggets of historical fact hidden in them there lies.Ysabeau S. Wilce is the author of Flora Segunda Andre Norton Awardwinner Flora's Dare and Flora's Fury and she has published work in Asimov's Steampunk! and Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction. She lives in San Francisco California.
language: English
title: Prophecies, Libels & Dreams
publisher: Small Beer Press