“A major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist. Ursula K. LeGuin

CarolEmshwillers pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, China Miville, Connie Willis, and numerous others.Moon Songsis the first one-volume selection from Emshwillers entire career, with stories from 1958 to 2012.Another admirer,Kelly Link,wrote the collection’s foreword.It is unsurprising that Emshwiller, a winner of theWorld Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, two Nebula Awards,a Philip K. Dick Award, and aPushcart Prize,is so respected by her fellow writers and avid fans. What is surprising is that her work has not enjoyed more widespread success and notoriety. There are so many who still have not experienced the joy of her engrossingly odd narrators, hyper-original imagery, and unguessable plot twists in stories such as “Moon Songs,” “Creature”, “Mrs. Jones,” “I Live with You and You Dont Know It,”and “The Bird Painter in Time of War.”MoonSongsselects a representative sample of stories from every era of Emshwiller’s work, providing readers new and old with a guidebook to a unique vision and feminist voice. Wry and ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking, poignant and poetic, these tales stand as testament to the vivid imagination of an original and uncompromising writer.

Author:Carol Emshwiller Carol Emshwiller (1921-2019) published her first short story in 1955, and became a regular contributor to science fiction and fantasy magazines as well as literary journals. Her books include the World Fantasy Award-winning collectionThe Start of the End of It All, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novelThe Mount, and two volumes ofCollected Stories. Her short stories won a Pushcart Prize and two Nebula Awards, and in 2005 she received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.
Editor:Matthew Cheneys newest collection Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories is Third Man Books first collection of literary horror stories.\. His debut collection of fiction, Blood: Stories, won the Hudson Prize and waspublished by Black Lawrence Press in 2016. His academic bookModernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form: Woolf, Delany, and Coetzee at the Limits of Fiction was published by Bloomsbury in 2020. About That Life: Barry Lopez and the Art of Community will be published by Punctum Books in the Fall of 2022. He is Assistant Professor and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Plymouth State University. His work has been published byConjunctions, Woolf Studies Annual, One Story, English Journal, Weird Tales,Strange Horizons, Best Gay Stories 2016, Literary Hub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere.He is the former series editor for theBest American Fantasyanthologies, and the co-editor, with Eric Schaller, of the occasional online magazine The Revelator.