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Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens Paperback – 1 May 2016

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Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens collects a dozen Hwarhath tales with commentary by their translator. As the translator notes, ''Humanity has encountered only one other species able to travel among the stars. This species, who call themselves the hwarhath, or 'people,' are also the only intelligent species so far encountered. Of course, we interest and puzzle and disturb each other... The stories in this collection were written after the hwarhath learned enough about humanity to realize how similar (and different) we are. Our existence has called into question many ideas about life and morality that most hwarhath would have called certain a century ago...'' ''One of the strongest collections of science fiction stories you're ever likely to find. It's hard to think of anybody other than Ursula K. Le Guin who was written better anthropological science fiction than Eleanor Arnason, and this very strong collection gather some of the best stories published by anybody during the last two decades.''--Gardner Dozois, author of When Great Days Come, editor of Year's Best Science Fiction series

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Publisher : Aqueduct Press; First edition (1 May 2016)
Language : English
Paperback : 392 pages
ISBN-10 : 1619760959
ISBN-13 : 978-1619760950
Dimensions : 14.73 x 2.54 x 22.1 cm

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Arnason (A Woman of the Iron People) rewards her loyal readers with this long-awaited collection of her celebrated stories about the alien hwarhath, written from the perspective of a cultural anthropologist. Each story explores a slightly different aspect of the fictional race and its distant world. Arnason perfectly captures the dry, patient scholarly tone used in folklore translations as she tells the hwarhath's creation stories and their version of the Adam and Eve myth. She explores in far more detail the hwarhath's peculiar (yet recognizable) attitudes toward sex, love, and procreation across several stories featuring related characters, which craft a fascinating historical story arc. Arnason's aliens are almost uniformly bisexual, and forbidden from engaging in heterosexual love beyond what's needed for procreation. This behavior allows Arnason to adapt timeless folkloric tropes to her own modern, progressive, and wholly original reality, which comes alive in her precise, classically beautiful prose. Most of the stories were published separately in the 1990s, and they stand up impressively well today. Those seeking a scholarly approach to speculative fiction will devour this idiosyncratic collection. --Publishers Weekly Feb 2016

These are magnificent stories, wise, witty, science-fictionally fascinating, moving. This may well end up being the story collection of the year. --Rich Horton Locus April 2016

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Eleanor Arnason's fourth novel, A Woman of the Iron People, won the James Tiptree Jr. Award and the Mythopoeic Society Award for adult fantasy. Her fifth novel, Ring of Swords, won a Minnesota Book Award. Since 1994 she has concentrated on short fiction. Aqueduct Press has published her short novel Tomb of the Fathers and a collection, Big Mama Stories. Her story ''Dapple'' won a Spectrum Award for GLBT science fiction; and she has been a finalist for the Sturgeon, Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives in Minnesota.

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carlo arrighi

Bellissime storie

Reviewed in Italy on 5 August 2016

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Come dice Dozois nel blurb sono qui riunite alcune delle più belle storie di SF degli ultimi vent'anni Sono state scritte infatti dal 1994 al 2012.E , come ci spiega l'introduzione, sono state scritte da alieni! Nel tesso ci sono echi della Cina classica e soprattutto delle saghe islandesi, ma le storie funzionano benissimo. Se si è esclude The Semen Thief, una storia horror che non mi piace molto e Origin Story, che trovo irrilevante, tutte le altre dieci sono davvero molto belle. La mia preferita in assoluto è The Potter of Bones, ma tutte le altre sono di altissimo livello, anche le più brevi. Arnason è pochissimo nota al pubblico italiano, ma vale la pena di approfondirla! Raccomando a tutti questa Collection of linked stories!

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David Lenander

Modestly uncompromising stories of social and feminist speculation

Reviewed in the United States on 17 September 2016

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Stunning collection of speculative stories in the world of her "classic" novel, _Ring of Swords_, here sometimes fiercely pursuing the Big Themes of that work, and sometimes playing with interesting ideas or forms or characters. Set mostly in the pre-spacefaring era of the Hwarhath, the stories question human history and examine our cultural choices by upending the most fundamental and basic ideas about gender and gender roles through parallels to stories out of human history, and some stories that are too alien to have an easy analogue. Sometimes this is playful, sometimes it is serious, and stories can be humorous or deeply moving, occasionally all at once. All in a simple prose that is deceptively artful and disarmingly humble yet precise.

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Barry D. Gold

Some enjoyable stories in the universe of Ring of Swords

Reviewed in the United States on 22 October 2016

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Some excellent "folk" and "historical" tales told by the Hwarhath folk from Arnason's excellent novel Ring of Swords. DOes not have quite the magic of Ring of Swords, but these are good, well-constructed tales with some interesting twists. And all have that feel of being in a different culture than the one we live in. The Hwarhath are _very_ different from us humans, to some extent in their biological imperatives but especially in the customs they have evolved to satisfy their biological needs.

Warning: contains both M/M and F/F sex as well as one or two stories with M/F. None of the sex is explicit.

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Kelly Jennings

Amazing

Reviewed in the United States on 23 June 2016

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I'd read many of these stories before, but reading them together in one collection like this reveals how wonderful they are.

If you haven't met the Hwarhath yet -- a fascinating culture -- this is a great introduction to them. If you have, this collection is not to be missed.

It's also one of the best science fiction collections I've read in years. Interwoven and inter-related stories of the Hwarhath people, written with Arnason's usual humor and precision, and as the title promises, interestingly transgressive, this one will keep you up all night, reading and reading.

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phil3ip

Transgressive, but only mildly so.

Reviewed in the United States on 22 August 2016

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I enjoyed this author's novel "A Woman of the Iron People" and these stories are set in a similar universe. She writes fable-like tales and the characters and settings are just different enough from our world's to ring true as alternate realities. Some of these tales are, naturally, better than others.

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