Overview

Mars Hill spiritualist community, founded 1883. It's nothing fancy. Just a faded resort on the rocky Maine Coast, inhabited by aging hippies, their rebellious children--and the elusive, shimmering spirits known as ""the Golden Ones."" They are the reason Mars Hill exists. Not everyone can see Them, but everyone can feel their healing presence. Even fetching, skeptical, young Moony Rising, who has come to say farewell to everything she ever loved. And to learn a secret more wondrous than love itself... Twelve exceptional stories, including the title novella, by the multiple award-winning author of Waking the Moon, Black Light, and Glimmering prove that Elizabeth Hand is just as adept with short fiction as she is in the novel form. The title story traces a world-changing summer at a New England artists' colony for young Shadowmoon Starlight Rising, who comes to know life, death, and an unbelievable secret about the strange apparitions that dwell in her community. Other stories include ""Snow on Sugar Mountain,"" which features a young boy who has the power to shapeshift into any form with the help of a Native American artifact; ""The Bacchae,"" in which womankind rules a savage futuristic version of our world; and ""The Erl-King,"" where a fairy tale horrifyingly comes true. Each story includes an afterword by the author.

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""An author of muscle and drive and ambition...[Hand] shows the depth of talent available in science ficiton.""-- Washington Post ""Hand combines a variety of science fiction elements into an original and colorful weave. Poignant and terrifying by turns, this collection isn't for the easily shocked, but it will satisfy readers who long for rich prose and deep, dark dreams."" "" --Publishers Weekly ""Hand is a superior stylist."" --The New York Times Book Review

Author Information

Elizabeth Hand is the author of many novels, including Winterlong, Waking the Moon, Glimmering, and Mortal Love, and three collections of stories, including the recent Saffron and Brimstone. Her fiction has received the Nebula, World Fantasy, Mythopeoic, Tiptree, and International Horror Guild Awards, and her novels have been chosen as New York Times and Washington Post Notable Books. She has also been awarded a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship. A regular contributor to the Washington Post Book World and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Hand lives with her family on the Maine coast.

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