come to joy, turn your head to the sun
Powerful words from Catherynne M Valente, talking about writing the second Fairyland book:
“I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire—where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!”
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THE OTHER HALF OF THE SKY
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I'm the editor of Aliens: Recent Encounters, a reprint anthology of science fiction stories, coming in June 2013 from Prime Books.
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