Description

The stories in this haunting collection are seamless fusions of science fiction, fantasy, myths and little-known history that murmur in the reader’s bone marrow, ranging from the uplands of Minoan Crete to the valleys of Mars and everything in between. All the stories in it ask the crucial question: how can we live well…and, equally importantly, how can we die well? This question was first asked on the Ionian coast, and we’re still asking it today as our horizons shift.

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Praise for Fates and Furies:

Visions of the fate of our flesh, set in the far future and in our own bitter times, all informed by ancient Hellas: I think I liked the alien migrants in modern Greece best, but I loved all these stories. A very fine cover too! — Gwyneth Jones, author of the Aleutian trilogy and Bold as Love cycle, winner of the World Fantasy, Tiptree, Clarke and Dick awards

This is an extraordinary collection. Myths old and new sing to readers, drawing them ever deeper into a world deeply informed by the Hellenic world. My only regret is that I would gladly have read more of every one of them. — Melissa Scott, author of Trouble and Her Friends and Shadow Man, winner of the Campbell, Lambda and Spectrum awards

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Fates and Furies
by Christine Lucas
Published by The Reckless imprint of Candlemark & Gleam, December 2019
105 pages
eISBN: 978-1-936460-91-5
Cover design: Athena Andreadis and Alan C. Caum
Cover inset: Mosaic “Personification of the Sea”, Church of the Apostles, Madaba, Jordan (Image use courtesy of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, Mt. Nebo, and the American Center of Oriental Research, Amman)