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An extraordinary collection of short stories from the award-winning author of Sarah Canary. Including "Praxis", the story about a theater where the real and unreal collide; "The Poplar Street Study", Fowler's darkly comic account of an alien invasion; and "The Gates of Ghosts", in which a child journeys to a strange and deadly world, this anthology of 13 tales also features a new foreword by the author.

The lake was full of artificial things - The Poplar Street study - Face value - The dragon's head - The war of the roses - Contention -Recalling Cinderella - Other planes - The gate of ghosts - The bog people - Wild boys: variations on a theme - The view from Venus - Praxis Karen Joy Fowler (1950 - )
Karen Joy Fowler was born in Bloomington, Indiana, and later moved to Palo Alto with her family where she attended the University of California, majoring in political science. Fowler began publishing science fiction with 'Recalling Cinderella' in L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future , Vol I , and caused considerable stir in the SF field with her first assured collection, Artificial Things . The collection helped her win the 1987 John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999. She achieved widespread recognition for 2004's The Jane Austen Book Club , which was filmed in 2007. Karen Joy Fowler lives in California.