The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe [Paperback]

World Fantasy Award winner, Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, and Locus Award finalist for Best Novella, andone ofNPR's Best Books of 2016

Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Womens College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.
d Kij Johnson's haunting novellaThe Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boeis both a commentary on a classic H.P. Lovecraft tale and a profound reflection on a woman's life. Vellitt's quest to find a former student who may be the only person who can save her community takes her through a world governed by a seemingly arbitrary dream logic in which she occasionally glimpses an underlying but mysterious order, a world ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares. Those familiar with Lovecraft's work will travel through a fantasy landscape infused with Lovecraftian images viewed from another perspective, but even readers unfamiliar with his work will be enthralled by Vellitt's quest. A remarkable accomplishment that repays rereading. Pamela Sargent, winner of the Nebula Award

KIJ JOHNSON is an American fantasy writer noted for her adaptations of Japanese myths and folklore. Her Tor.com story Ponies won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Her story Fox Magic won the 1994 Theodore Sturgeon Award, her novelThe Fox Womanwon the Crawford Award for best debut fantasy novel, and her subsequent novelFudokiwas a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and was cited byPublishers Weeklyas one of the best fantasy novels of its year. She is also an associate director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas.

Kij Johnson has an unrivalled gift for making the unreal real and the real unreal. In this spellbinding story, the intense reality of a quest through dreamland finds its goal in a here-and-now America that seems even stranger than lCW