Prophecies, libels and dreams
Subtitle: stories of Califa
By: edited and annotated by Ysabeau S. Wilce
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Small Beer Pr
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781618730893
Subjects: Fantasy; Short stories; Science fiction
Other titles: Prophecies, libels & dreams; Stories of Califa
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Praise for Ysabeau S. Wilce's previous books:"This fresh and funky setting is rich with glorious costumes, innovative language, and tantalizing glimpses of history."--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewThese 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 place--a baroque approximation of Gold Rush era-California with an overlay of Aztec ceremony--yet 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 Award-winner Flora's Dare, and Flora's Fury, and she has published work in Asimov's, Steampunk!, and Fantasy & Science Fiction. She lives in San Francisco, California. Her website is yswilce.com "--

"These interconnected stories are set in the Republic of Califa -- a baroque approximation of Gold Rush era-California with an overlay of Aztec ceremony. 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Biography of a bouncing boy terror! --; title: Quartermaster returns --; title: Metal more attractive --; title: Lineaments of gratified desire --; title: Lovelocks --; title: Hand in glove --; title: Searing the shavetail.