“World Fantasy Award winner Goss (the Athena Club trilogy) delivers a wonderfully atmospheric collection of stories set in 16 distinct fantastical worlds. In ‘England Under the White Witch,’ a permanent winter settles over Britain after the eponymous sorceress raises an army of women who find empowerment in her icy dominion. ‘Beautiful Boys’ takes the form of a scientific treatise on an alien race whose sole purpose is reproduction. The pageantry and politics of ‘Child-Empress of Mars’ makes it a standout, as an immortal child ruler engineers a grand heroic quest for a mysterious newcomer, unaware that her ‘chosen one’ is actually a bewildered ranch hand from Earth. Across the collection, Goss blends fantastical premises with meditations on history, identity, and the art of storytelling, often drawing from her own Hungarian childhood. There is a distinctive undercurrent of wonder and menace to the tales, each one told with lush prose and sly wit. Readers willing to linger in Goss’s intricately wrought landscapes will find themselves amply rewarded.”
—Publishers Weekly

[STARRED REVIEW] “Each story in Goss’s (The Collected Enchantments) perfectly titled collection features stamps from fantastical worlds they passed through on the way to readers. They may have paused in literary realms such as Oz, Narnia, or Camelot. Others spent time with Mary Shelley, Edgar Rice Burroughs, or Jorge Luis Borges. The rest may display their travels less flamboyantly, but they perhaps skirted lands created by Robin McKinley, Patricia A. McKillip, or Ursula K. Le Guin. Though many of the stories focus on academia or research, this is fully entangled with their emotional cores. For instance, ‘Beautiful Boys’ is a research project into aliens that also explores the dangerous allure of doomed relationships, and ‘Come See the Living Dryad’ haunts archives and medical colleges solving a cold case involving a sideshow dryad while examining family ties, privilege, and disability. While ‘England Under the White Witch’ brings magic, wolves, and eternal winter to Europe, other stories, such as ‘Dora/Dóra,’ are more quietly speculative, in this case following a girl who corresponds with the self she left behind when she immigrated to the U.S.
—Library Journal

[STARRED REVIEW] “Alluring, unforgettable… Letters from an Imaginary Country is an invigorating short story collection that fleshes out forgotten characters and gives form to abandoned dreams.”
—Foreword 

“Literary, lyrical, lovely. An elegant waltz through history and literature, with a fantastical turn.”
—Marie Brennan, author of The Memoirs of Lady Trent series

“Theodora Goss’ luminous collection explores duality and liminality in identity, belonging, and setting. Goss’ formidable powers as an observer and storyteller are showcased in these beautiful stories.”
—Fran Wilde, Nebula-winning author of A Catalog of Storms

“Wildly imaginative, gloriously sneaky, delicious tales of monsters and the terrible and beautiful sublimity of the imagination.”
—Cory Doctorow, author of Red Team Blues and Walkaway

“In addition to Goss’s clearly passionate engagement with the books and places she loves, her voice remains entirely her own, ranging from clear-eyed lyricism to mordant wit, but often with more than a trace of melancholy and an unabashed sense of romance.”
—Locus

“The worlds in Theodora Goss’ wondrous collection Letters from an Imaginary Country are tantalizingly, dangerously close to our own. Or, rather, they are our troubling world, as refracted through our most treasured stories’ secondary characters, a keen feminist lens, and the products of a feverish imagination. These love letters to storytelling are sharp-witted and illuminating.”
—David Ebenbach, author of How to Mars 

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