At the mouth of the river of bees
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Easthampton, MA; [Minneapolis, Minn.]
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781931520805
Copyright date: 2012
Description: A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and The Secret History of Fantasy. Kij Johnson's stories have won the Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards. She has taught writing; worked at Tor, Dark Horse, and Microsoft; worked as a radio announcer; run bookstores; and waitressed in a strip bar.
Notes: A collection of short stories.
Table of contents: title: The Man Who Bridged the Mist (2011); title: Wolf Trapping (1989); title: The Empress Jingu Fishes (2004); title: The Bitey Cat (2012); title: Chenting, in the Land of the Dead (1999); title: My Wife Reincarnated as a Solitaire—Exposition on the Flaws in my Spouse's Character—The Nature of the Bird—The Possible Causes—Her Final Disposition (2007); title: Schrödinger's Cathouse (1993); title: Names for Water (2010); title: Fox Magic (1993); title: Spar (2009); title: The Horse Raiders (2000); title: 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss (2008); title: At the Mouth of the River of Bees (2003); title: The Evolution of Trickster Stories among the Dogs of North Park after the Change (2007); title: The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles (2009); title: Ponies (2010)