Alt Sagas | gertrude m books
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Huets’ imaginative takes on our cultural touchstones help to explain how we crashed our way into a frightening future; they also promise that we are more than the sum of our technology and our losses. — Susann Cokal, The Kingdom of Little Wounds and Breath and Bones
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ALT SAGAS conjures up places and times almost familiar, unfolding the most profound quandaries of our own lives, and of our futures. Loyalty—and what happens when it’s displaced, social revolution, aging, faith, the perils of magic, physical nonconformity, and more are probed in three novellas and two bonus stories.
“Huets is an endlessly inventive writer, grounding speculations about the future in well-researched mythologies of the past as we know it. In these five tour-de-force tales, space crusaders and lonely Calibans sift through the cultural rubble on a hunt for hope and connection. Where personal history is written in tattoos and scars, the transcendent narratives of capital-H History are often literary, and they bring Big Events home to the heart: a Norse saga, a Shakespearean tragedy, a Wild West showdown. Huets’ imaginative takes on our cultural touchstones help to explain how we crashed our way into a frightening future; they also promise that we are more than the sum of our technology and our losses.” — Susann Cokal, The Kingdom of Little Wounds and Breath and Bones
“A fresh, smart and highly entertaining story collection.” — Fred Leebron, The News Said It Was
Praise for Jean Huets’ The Bones You Have Cast Down
Enchanting and richly historical, dazzling and dark, heart-wrenching and intoxicating. — Stuart R. Kaplan, Pamela Colman Smith
A storytelling treasure. Speculative elements are deftly melded into the mix.… Thought provoking as well as entertaining. — Ron Andre, A Matter of Fancy
About Jean Huets
Jean Huets is co-author, with Stuart R. Kaplan, of The Encyclopedia of Tarot and author of The Cosmic Tarot book, based on the visionary art of Norbert Loesche. Her book With Walt Whitman, Himself was acclaimed as “a book of marvels” by poet Steve Scafidi and “a true Whitmanian feast” by scholar Ed Folsom. Her writing can be found in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, The Millions, The Rumpus, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Civil War Monitor, and she is a member of and volunteer book reviewer for Historical Novel Society. She co-founded Circling Rivers, which publishes literary nonfiction and poetry. Visit jeanhuets.com
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Publication date: March 14, 2024 | Request review copy
ISBN: 978-1-939530-32-5 | trade paper | 216 pp. | 5.5 x 8.25 | US $16.00
Also available in hardcover ISBN 978-1-939530-33-2, and as ebook
FIC019000 FICTION / Literary
FIC028000 FICTION / Science Fiction / General
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