Starlings (a poem) -- Fiction. Three twilight tales -- Jane Austen to Cassandra -- Unrealiable witness -- On the wall -- The panda coin -- Remember the allosaur -- Sleeper -- Relentlessly mundane -- Escape to other worlds with science fiction -- Joyful and triumphant: St. Zenobius and the aliens -- Turnover -- At the bottom of the garden -- Out of it -- What a piece of work -- Parable lost -- What would Sam Spade do? -- Tradition -- What Joseph felt -- The need to stay the same -- A burden shared -- Three shouts on a hill (a play) -- Poems. Dragon's song -- Not in this town -- Hades and Persephone -- The death of Petrarch -- Advice to Loki -- Ask to Embla -- Three bears Norse -- Michiavelli and Prospero -- Cardenio -- Ten years ahead: oracle poem -- Pax in Forma Columba -- Translated from the original -- Sleepless in New Orleans -- The Godzilla sonnets -- Not a bio for Wiscon: Jo Walton.
Summary:
"In her first collection, award-winning novelist Jo Walton delivers both subtle legends and reinvented realities. An ancient coin cyber-spies on lovers and thieves. The magic mirror sees all but can do nothing. A cloned savior solves a fanatically-inspired murder. Three Irish siblings thieve treasures with bad poetry and the aid of the Queen of Cats"--Back cover.
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