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Twitter @AngelaSlatter

Dr Cat Sparks is a multi-award-winning Australian author, editor and artist. Career highlights include a PhD in science fiction and climate fiction, five years as Fiction Editor of Cosmos Magazine, running Agog! Press, working as an archaeological dig photographer in Jordan, studying with Margaret Atwood, 75 published short stories, two collections – The Bride Price (2013) and Dark Harvest (2020), plus a far future novel, Lotus Blue. She directed two speculative fiction festivals for Writing NSW and is a regular panellist and speaker at speculative fiction events.

Find her at: catsparks.net

Twitter: @catsparx

Anthology Chief Editor: Aiki Flinthart

Other Titles by the Editor

Discover other titles by Aiki Flinthart at: www.aikiflinthart.com

Or

Short Story Anthologies

Worlds in Worlds

Zookeeper’s Tales of Interstellar Oddities

Return

Elemental

Rogues’ Gallery

Non-Fiction – Author writing resources

Fight Like A Girl – Writing Fight Scenes for Female (and male) Characters

How to Get a Blackbelt in Writing

Blackbirds Sing (Historical fantasy)

The 80AD series (YA Adventure/Fantasy)

80AD Book 1: The Jewel of Asgard

80AD Book 2: The Hammer of Thor

80AD Book 3: The Tekhen of Anuket

80AD Book 4: The Sudarshana

80AD Book 5: The Yu Dragon

The Ruadhan Sidhe novels (YA Urban Fantasy)

Shadows Wake (#1)

Shadows Bane (#2)

Shadows Fate (#3)

Healing Heather (#4) (Romance)

The Kalima Chronicles (YA Sci/Fantasy)

IRON (#1)

FIRE (#2)

STEEL (#3)

A Future, Forged (Prequel)

Sold! (Contemporary Romance/Adventure)

Connect with her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aikiflinthartauthor

Twitter: @aikiflinthart

Instagram: Aikiflinthart

Reviews

“The deep messages of this anthology make the very bones hum. Taloned onto the page by resistance and vision, these stories invite us to witness how sacrifice crafts wisdom, and how wisdom opens doors for the next generation.”

L.E. Daniels, author of Serpent’s Wake: A Tale for the Bitten

“Rich, varied, and bittersweet, this anthology is a fitting and triumphant salute to Aiki Flinthart’s dauntless spirit and irrepressible moxie.”

Geneve Flynn, co-editor of Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women

Copyright

Edited by Aiki Flinthart

Assistant editors: Gene Flynn, Lauren Daniels.

Cover artwork by Daniele Serra

Cover design by Pamela Jeffs

Internal art by Caitlyn McPherson

Published 2021 by CAT Press

Copyright © 2021 Aiki Flinthart

All stories are original to this collection or acknowledged as reprints

Cosmic Spring, by Ken Liu – First English publication by Lightspeed, March 15, 2018

American Changeling by Mary Robinette Kowal – First English publication in Daily SF in September 2010

River of Stars by David Farland—First English publication September 2017.

The Wind and the Rain by Robert Silverberg—First English publication in “Saving Worlds” 1973, Doubleday Books.

Morgan of the Fay by Kate Forsyth—First English publication in “The Road to Camelot”, Random House Australia, 2002

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ISBN-13: 978-0-6489917-3-1 (Trade Paperback)

ISBN-13: 978-0-6489917-2-4 (e-book)

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