A is for Alien Author:Caitlin R. Kiernan A is for Alien is award-winning author Caitlin R. Kiernan s first collection devoted entirely to her science-fiction work. It includes the critically acclaimed novelette Riding the White Bull (chosen for The Year s Best Science Fiction, 22nd Annual Collection), along with seven other tales of a less-than-utopian future. Ranging ... more »from the wastelands and mountains of Mars to the streets of a late 21st-Century Manhattan, from the moons of Europa and Saturn to an iceless Antarctica, these tales bring Kiernan s trademark brand of the eco-gothic to bear on what it means to be human and the paths and decisions that may face mankind only a little farther along.
Contents:
Riding the White Bull (2004) / novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Faces in Revolving Souls (2005) / short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Zero Summer (2007) / short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Pearl Diver (2006) / short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
In View of Nothing (2007) / short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Ode to Katan Amano (2005) / short fiction by Caitlín R. Kiernan
A Season of Broken Dolls (2007) / short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Bradbury Weather (2005) / novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Afterword (A is for Alien) • essay by Elizabeth Bear