Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories

The ten stories collected here illustrate the range of Lisa Tuttle's talent. These stories break through the calm of everyday life to reveal the shifting uncertainties that lie below. In 'No Regrets' a poet reflects on the difficult choices she has made as her past returns to haunt her, in 'The Other Kind' a suspicion becomes a cruel reality, in 'A Spaceship Built of Stone' collective dreaming creates a new, and alien, version of the past.Stories include: No Regrets, Wives, The Family Monkey, Mrs T, The Bone Flute, A Spaceship Built of Stone, The Cure, The Hollow Man, The Other Kind, The Birds of the Moon.

'Tuttle is at her best as a short story writer. The power and sheer quality of her work are unmistakable on every page' Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review.

Containing 'Wives', a classic in feminist science fiction and the author's most frequently discussed and reprinted short story, and 'The Bone Flute', which was famously awarded and then removed from the Nebula Awards, Lisa Tuttle's second short-story collection is as breathtaking and genre bending as the first.

Originally published by The Woman's Press, a specialised feminist publishing company in 1987, A Spaceship Built of Stones contains 10 short stories that demonstrate Tuttle's effortless mastery of the short story form and her undeniable writing prowess.

The collection also includes the stories 'No Regrets', 'The Family Monkey', 'Mrs T', 'A Spaceship Built of Stone', 'The Cure', 'The Hollow Man', 'The Other Kind' and 'The Birds of the Moon'.

Auteur

Lisa Tuttle