Ruins excavation
By: edited by Eric T. Reynolds, with Rose Reynolds & Emmeline Wolfe ; foreword by Nisi Shawl
Publisher: Hadley Rille Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Overland Park, KS
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780989263160
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Women archaeologists; Fiction; Women; Archaeologists; Minority women
Description: Speculative Fiction stories that are set in or about Arachaeological Ruins. The protagonist in each story is an archaeologist who is a Woman of Color. Ruins range from those in the American Southwest & Southeast to Central America, the Maya, to ruins in the Andes Mountains, Egypt, and to other places across the world. Some incorporate mythology of the ancient cultures who built and inhabited the places now in ruins. Some of the protagonists are descendents of the ancient peoples of the ruins.
Table of contents: title: Cover her corpse with a feathered cape  -- Jennifer Crow; title: The ball game  -- Kaolin Imago Fire; title: The alux's cave  -- Jamie Lackey; title: The red queen  -- Gerri Leen; title: One village  -- Neil O'Donnell; title: Would Olympus fall  -- Lou Antonelli; title: Searching for peace  -- Rob Darnell; title: The first time  -- Tammy A. Branom; title: This love remains  -- Rebecca L. Brown; title: The seam of life and death  -- Vanessa MacLellan; title: To touch the past  -- Memory Scarlett; title: The spaceman's tomb  -- Sarah Frost; title: The delver  -- Ransom Noble; title: Uno por por cada  -- M.C. Chambert; title: Moundville revisited  -- Louise Herring-Jones; title: Encantado  -- Micah Hyatt; title: Gate of sun, gate of moon -- Alvaro Zinos-Amaro.