Clockwork Phoenix 5 (volume 5) [Paperback]

Allens strange and lovely fifth genre-melding fantasy anthology selects 20 new short stories of unusual variety, texture, compassion, and perception . . . All the stories afford thought-provoking glimpses into alternative realities that linger, sparking unconventional thoughts, long after they are first encountered. Publisher Weekly, starred review The arrangement is superb. This anthology of 20 stories can resemble a symphony of themes and variations in a wide range of keys, or a tapestry whose elements form patterns of imagery and meaning that shift and offer new insights throughout the book. Locus The Clockwork Phoenix anthologies offer homes to well-written stories occupying multiple subgenres, usually in the same story, often ambiguously, as Locus Magazine once put it. The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies returns for a fifth incarnation, triumphantly risen from the ashes after another successful Kickstarter campaign. This is the largest installment yet, holding twenty new tales of beauty and strangeness. Each story leads you into unmapped territory, there to find shock and delight. With fiction from Jason Kimble, Rachael K. Jones, Patricia Russo, Marie Brennan, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Rob Cameron, A. C. Wise, Gray Rinehart, Sam Fleming, Sunil Patel, C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez, Holly Heisey, Barbara Krasnoff, Sonya Taaffe, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Shveta Thakrar, Cassandra Khaw, Keffy R. M. Kehrli, Rich Larson, and Beth Cato. Table of Contents

The Wind at His Back by Jason Kimble

The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me by Rachael K. Jones

The Perfect Happy Family by Patricia Russo

The Mirror-City by Marie Brennan

The Finchs Wedding and the Hive That Sings by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Squeeze by Rob Cameron

A Guide to Birds by Song (After Death) by A.C. Wise

The Sorcerer of Etah by Gray Rinehl£Ù