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| Title: | Secret Life
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| Author: | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN: | 1930846274 : 9781930846272 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 305 |
| Weight: | .544 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Golden Gryphon Press) - June 2004 |
| List Price: | 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Short stories: Science fiction |
This collection of 23 stories reflects a diversity of approaches to key questions about the human condition, including questions about mortality, love, obsession, and creativity. 'Balzac's War' is a harrowing, powerful far-future novella that pits brother against brother in a landscape ravaged by war with Earth's newly sentient human-made species. In 13th-century Cambodia, a lone artist is torn between his love of his craft and his unspoken love for a woman in 'The Bone Carver's Tale'. In 'The Emperor's Reply' and 'The Compass of His Bones', set in 17th-century Peru, the last Incan Emperor, having brutally fallen at the hands of the Conquistadores, seeks his revenge.
