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On the Banks of the River of Heaven
| Author: | Richard Parks |
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Prime Books, 2010 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
On the Banks of the River of Heaven presents fourteen stories by Richard Parks, an "unrepentant storyteller," according to Locus Magazine. In his third collection, you'll find stories about a ghoul with an identity crisis; a girl who can be anyone she wants except herself; a woman from heaven and a man very much from earth; gardening tips from hell; ten aspects of a goddess all searching for one wayward husband, and many other thrilling wonders.
With his light touch and imaginative storytelling, Parks takes readers into the past as well as the future, to lands foreign as well as nearby, and from matters sublime to ones familiar (but never trivial or predictable). One of the most versatile fantasists of his generation, for Parks it is never style over the substance (or the other way around) -- it is always a seamless melding of both.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Charles de Lint
- On the Banks of the River of Heaven - (2008) - short story
- The Finer Points of Destruction - (2005) - short story
- A Pinch of Salt - (2006) - short story
- A Garden in Hell - (2006) - short story
- The Twa Corbies, Revisited - short fiction
- Lord Goji's Wedding - (2005) - short story
- The Feather Cloak - short fiction
- Skin Deep - (2008) - novelette
- Brillig - (2006) - short story
- On the Wheel - short fiction
- Soft as Spider Silk - short fiction
- Courting the Lady Scythe - (2008) - short story
- The Man Who Carved Skulls - (2007) - short story
- Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge - (2006) - novelette
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