Eccentric Symmetries: Past/Present/Future Fantasy Stories
Eccentric Symmetries ¸ 20 fantasy short stories spanning the forty-year career of author Nancy Springer¸ showcases tales ranging from the quirky to the transcendent. Including mythic tales of long ago and far away such as award-winner "The Boy Who Plaited Manes¸" this collection also contains wry¸ sometimes humorous contemporary fantasy stories such as "Rumple What?" and "Snow Spawn¸" plus mystic magical realism in which cabbage roses grow down from the ceiling ("Mariposa") and hard-edged future fantasy stories such as "We Don't Know Why¸" a tale of failing "angels." Like our lives¸ the stories in Eccentric Symmetries are mostly off-kilter¸ even laughable¸ but sometimes achieve a luminous moment of perfect balance¸ an epiphany. In this carefully selected collection¸ every fantasy reader should find something to love.