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This collection of Catherine Asaro's show fiction contains five stories, including the Nebula Award-winning novella, Spacetime Pool, the Hugo and Nebula nominated novella Aurora in Four Voices, and an essay on Asaro's use of mathematics in her fiction.

The anthology also includes the critically acclaimed The City of Cries, which won the Prism Award for Best Novella and The Best of the Best in 2006, and the Book Buyers Best award for novella.

The City of Cries forms the beginning of Asaro's upcoming novel from Baen (Simon & Schuster).
©2011 Catherine Asaro (P)2014 Catherine Asaro

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Good stories too painful to listen to.

This book emphasizes the importance of good narration. While the narrator was ok in the narrative voice, the character voices were absolutely painful. If I had not previously read Undercity, for example, (a very good book) I would never have purchased it after having read the first half of it here. On the other hand this book was a good look into the mind of Catherine Asaro.

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This is an anthology!

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