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These Imperfect Reflections: Short Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy Stories
What's the price of revolution backed by artificial intelligence? Can you change the past to free ghosts trapped in endless loops? Do fairy tales always end the same way?
Follow a battle poet on aer quest to save a kingdom; witness the last documentary about alien whales; and travel with the Wolf who is prophesied to eat the sun as they look for alternatives to their fate.
From living trains to space stations populated with monsters, these eleven fantasy and science fiction stories from Merc Fenn Wolfmoor will take you on otherworldly adventures that are tethered to the heart.
Follow a battle poet on aer quest to save a kingdom; witness the last documentary about alien whales; and travel with the Wolf who is prophesied to eat the sun as they look for alternatives to their fate.
From living trains to space stations populated with monsters, these eleven fantasy and science fiction stories from Merc Fenn Wolfmoor will take you on otherworldly adventures that are tethered to the heart.
172 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 30, 2022
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About the author
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
31 books24 followersMerc Fenn Wolfmoor is an ace/aro ADHD/autistic non-binary author from Minnesota.
Merc is the author of several short story collections and the novella The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt. They have had short stories published in such fine venues as Lightspeed, Fireside, Nightmare, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, Uncanny, and more.
They have been a Nebula Awards Finalist and have had short stories reprinted in several Year's Best anthologies.
They are part of the Chipped Cup Collective, of which Robot Dinosaur Press is an imprint division.
Merc also enjoys creating book covers.
Pronouns: they/them/theirs.
Honorifics: preferably none, but Mx. or Mr. are acceptable if necessary.
Merc is the author of several short story collections and the novella The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt. They have had short stories published in such fine venues as Lightspeed, Fireside, Nightmare, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, Uncanny, and more.
They have been a Nebula Awards Finalist and have had short stories reprinted in several Year's Best anthologies.
They are part of the Chipped Cup Collective, of which Robot Dinosaur Press is an imprint division.
Merc also enjoys creating book covers.
Pronouns: they/them/theirs.
Honorifics: preferably none, but Mx. or Mr. are acceptable if necessary.
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March 8, 2023
An absolutely stunning collection of SFF stories - ranging from near-future sci-fi, to dystopias, to fairytales, to epic secondary-world fantasy - connected by themes of hopepunk resistance. An aroace girl with bells on her toes faces off against a monster; a nonbinary book-sorcerer and their velociraptor bestie team up to rescue a prince; victims of queerphobic dystopias take over the prisons they're forced into; AIs say no to fascism; Fenrir of Norse mythology (here named simply Wolf) rejects prophecy to find their own dreams - these are just a handful of the gorgeous stories Wolfmoor has gathered here!
If Wolfmoor weren't already one of my very favourite authors, this collection would cement their place on my auto-buy list. The beautiful prose and incredible imagination on display here is just breathtaking - and I'm very impressed that each story felt so satisfying; usually if I love a short story I wish it was a novel, but while I'd be delighted to see Wolfmoor revisit some of these settings, each story in this collection was the perfect length, exactly right. I don't say that very often!
TL;DR: Imperfect Reflections? More like perfect reflections; this is flawless, brilliant, an instant new favourite. Everyone who wants to see what queer SFF can do and be needs to pick this one up immediately!
If Wolfmoor weren't already one of my very favourite authors, this collection would cement their place on my auto-buy list. The beautiful prose and incredible imagination on display here is just breathtaking - and I'm very impressed that each story felt so satisfying; usually if I love a short story I wish it was a novel, but while I'd be delighted to see Wolfmoor revisit some of these settings, each story in this collection was the perfect length, exactly right. I don't say that very often!
TL;DR: Imperfect Reflections? More like perfect reflections; this is flawless, brilliant, an instant new favourite. Everyone who wants to see what queer SFF can do and be needs to pick this one up immediately!
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