The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley

I can’t recommend “The Beauty” enough. Terrific read.

As of today The Beauty is available to buy in the US from Titan Books, and that is a very strange thought. I wrote it about five years ago, in the frame of mind that since nobody published my stories anyway I might as well write something entirely to please myself. I put all my […]

via Still Beautiful — Aliya Whiteley

All the Fabulous Beasts Hardback Edition

Mike Kelly at Undertow Publications has now released the cover for the hardback edition of my collection, “All the Fabulous Beasts”. It features the artwork by Jeffrey Alan Love which accompanied the story, “Fabulous Beasts” on Tor.com. The cover design is by Vince Haig.

Mad Hatters and March Hares

Read  mini-interviews with Ellen Datlow and some of the included authors : Go Down The Rabbit Hole With A Brand New Alice-Inspired Anthology at RT Book Reviews.

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A Q&A about the inspiration for Mad Hatters and March Hares can also be found on Ellen’s webite.

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 Beautifully stitched together, it’s a storybook of strangeness, of oddities and weird concoctions, and I’m confident critics and fans of the original Alice books will fall in love with it.  New adventures await readers in Datlow’s project, as well as new art (book cover included) created by Dave McKean.

I would highly recommend this anthology to any reader passionate about Carroll’s literature. Filled with dark psychological thrillers, hallucinogenic imagery and landscapes, and satirical undertones on the worst of societies habits–Datlow’s book includes stories by eighteen of today’s renowned sci-fi and fantasy authors. Bree Goodchild for Killer Nashville (full review)

 

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For more than 150 years, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have entranced readers with their bizarre and imaginative wordplay, surreal settings, and memorable characters. Hugo Award–winning editor Datlow has collected 17 stories and poems inspired by Carroll’s masterpieces. “Gentle Alice” by Kris Dikeman has the battle-worn conqueror of the Red Queen looking for peace. Priya Sharma’s “Mercury” sees Alice and her father sitting in debtor’s prison and trapped by agents of illness and lost hope. In Seanan McGuire’s “Sentence like a Saturday,” a young Cheshire Cat discovers a doorway that takes her into a world unlike her own, in a body not hers, on a search for the door to home. Other contributors include ­Catherynne M. Valente, ­Genevieve Valentine, Jane Yolen, Jeffrey Ford, and more. VERDICT Whether a one-page poem or a short story, these poignant and lyrical selections from well-known names in sf and fantasy highlight new ways to view an enduring classic. Kristi Chadwick for Library Journal. 

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Pop culture has long mined Alice’s adventures for new takes and retellings. The hallucinogenic qualities of Wonderland lend themselves nicely to manipulation and real-world allusions. In this new collection, editor Datlow has collected nearly 20 tales by current science-fiction and fantasy authors, each one bringing his or her own perspective to the bizarre world created by Lewis Carroll. Like Alice’s tale, these new stories blend the familiar and the peculiar: Seanan McGuire asks what it would be like if the Cheshire Cat were suddenly a little girl in “Sentence like a Saturday,” and Ysabeau S. Wilce transforms the Queen of Hearts into an aged star of musicals in “The Queen of Hats.” Playing with form and style as much as with time and characters, the stories in this collection will appeal to all fans of Alice’s world.  Carolyn Ciesla for Booklist Online

All the Fabulous Beasts ToC

Mike Kelly, editor at Undertow Publications, has released the table of contents for my collection, “All the Fabulous Beasts”.

He’s posted it on the collection’s Facebook page, where you can follow its progress.

Table of  Contents

The Crow Palace
Rag and Bone
The Anatomist’s Mnemonic…
Egg
The Sunflower Seed Man
The Ballad of Boomtown
The Show
Pearls
The Absent Shade
Small Town Stories
Fish Skins
The Rising Tide
The Englishman
The Nature of Bees
A Son of The Sea
Fabulous Beasts