Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories

Jane Yolen

304 pages

Published: 1 Jan 1997

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ISBN: 9780312875237

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Tor Books

Publication date: 11 August 2001

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As author, poet, and editor, Jane Yolen has published more than 150 books and has won two Nebula Awards, the Caldecott Medal, the World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, the Daedalus Award, the Kerlan Award, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has written one of the 20th century's greatest high-fantasy series, the Chronicles of Great Alta (Sister Light, Sister Dark, White Jenna, and The One-Armed Queen). Her first collection of short fiction for adults is Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories. It assembles 28 stories, three of which are original to this volume, many of which take the form of folk or fairy tales, and all of which are excellent. Sometimes dark, sometimes humorous, the stories are always beautifully written, sharp, and wise.

"Snow in Summer" portrays a modern, Appalachian Snow White with a fringe-Fundamentalist snake-handling stepmother. "Granny Rumple" reveals the grim origin of Rumplestiltskin. A prequel to the Chronicles of Great Alta, "Blood Sister" explores both love and the nature of narrative. In "The Gift of the Magicians, with Apologies to You Know Who," Beauty and the Beast meet with a horrifically suitable O. Henry twist. The Nebula Award winning "Lost Girls" revisits Peter Pan's Neverland with a feminist slant. "Dick W. and His Pussy; or, Tess and Her Adequate Dick" is an amusingly naughty retold fairy tale. In the Nebula Award winner "Sister Emily's Lightship," the poet Emily Dickinson finds a strange and otherworldly inspiration. --Cynthia Ward

Contents:
The Traveler and the Tale (1995)
Snow in Summer (2000)
Speaking to the Wind (2000)
The Thirteenth Fey (1985)
Granny Rumple (1994)
Blood Sister (1994)
Journey into the Dark (1995)
The Sleep of Trees (1980)
The Uncorking of Uncle Finn (1986)
Dusty Loves (1988)
The Gift of the Magicians, with Apologies to You Know Who (1992)
Sister Death (1995)
The Singer and the Song (2000)
Salvage (1984)
Lost Girls (1998)
Belle Bloody Merciless Dame (1997)
Words of Power (1987)
Great Gray (1991)
Under the Hill (2000)
Godmother Death (1997)
Creationism: An Illustrated Lecture in Two Parts (1990)
Allerleirauh (1995)
Sun/Flight (1982)
Dick W. and His Pussy; or, Tess and Her Adequate Dick (1997)
Become a Warrior (1998)
Memoirs of a Bottle Djinni (1988)
A Ghost of an Affair (2000)
Sister Emily's Lightship (1996)