Tales of Old Gods and New

"Tales of Old Gods and New" collects ten stories from fantasy and science fiction writer Kate MacLeod:

the high fantasy murder mystery "Impostor Apparition",

the western weird tale "Unsafe, Unsound",

the pseudo-Egyptian fantasy "Tear of a Sphinx",

the early Bronze Age fantasy "Changing Tides",

"In the Waste Places", the sequel to "Oil Fire";

the science fiction story "Taren and Keui",

tale of two alien beings finding a way out of a zero sum game;

the dark fantasy tale "The Story for the Letters",

about a little girl and an ancient evil; the science fiction story "AI: Aesir Intelligence", where the sole survivor of a shuttle crash stays alive on a hostile world with the guidance of some unconventional babysitters;

the science fiction story "Upon the Lonesome Wild" about a woman meant to be the matriarch of a far reaching clan on a newly discovered world who instead finds herself alone on a dying one;

and the science fiction novelette "The Inscrutable Visages of the Sowmyatha" where a young officer finds it easier to communicate with a rocklike alien race than her human teammates.

© 2018 Ratatoskr Press (E-bog): 9781946552747

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E-bog: 12. september 2018