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“Souls” is the story of the Abbess Radegunde, as told through the eyes of the novitiate Radulphus. Their abbey falling under Viking attack one day, instead of organizing the defense of the grounds Radegunde rushes out to face the group of rape-and-pillage minded men, alone. Swords without ‘s’ her weapons, at every turn she surprises the men, negotiating terms for the safety of the abbey and its...

His name was Jai Vedh; he was an Earthman. But his ship had blown up on a star voyage and now he was a castaway on an uncharted Earth-like planet. There were people here: humans, apparently an Earth colony that had lost contact with the home world centuries before. They had developed telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation - and the damnedest social system you could imagine had grown out of those...

Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world. Janet is from Whileaway, a utopian earth where only women exist. And Jael is a warrior with steel teeth and catlike retractable claws, from an earth with separa...

Кафе. Подают сливочный сыр и бублики. Главный герой обсуждает с агентом сценарий нового фильма, но разговора не получается: душу героя гложут ожившие воспоминания времен молодости, Лавкрафта и причесок в стиле «афро». Да еще и эта встреча пару дней назад! Ему нужно выговориться...

Бен и Бесс сдают комнату необычной женщине. Она огромна, некрасива, но необычайно уверена в себе и со временем начинает оказывать всё большее влияние на их шестнадцатилетнюю дочь, рассказывая ей странные байки или вовлекая в удивительные события... © Gorhla

The Zanzibar Cat is one of those rare, near-perfect single author collections—it isn’t too much the same in any story, but it still has underlying themes and resonances that make the text coherent as a whole. The stories themselves are memorable in many cases not for their plots but for their execution, the fine detail Russ employs to build her worlds, and the emotions the stories can rouse in the...