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.
| ISBN | 1930846274 | | Pages | 305 | | ISBN13 | 9781930846272
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Golden Gryphon Press | | Weight (grammes) | 544 | | Imprint | Golden Gryphon Press | | Published in | Collinsville, IL | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 220 | | Publication date | 01 Jun 2004 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Library of Congress | PS3622 | | Spine width (mm) | 29 | | DEWEY | 813.54 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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