Bøger af Cat Hellisen

War is coming to Oreyn. Magic is vanishing. Neither problem matters much to Jek until he is pulled out of the slums and forced into the world of the Great Houses. A bastard heir to a dying magical family, Jek is caught up in the scheming of his half-sisters, who see him as the proof of their father's betrayal. He's powerless, out of place, and has no-one he can trust. Jek's scramble to make a home for himself in a world that will never accept him takes a strange turn when he finds himself drawn to one of the forbidden low-caste vampires, and the illegal magic they carry in their blood. War is coming to Oreyn. Magic is vanishing. Jek Grinningtommy is not a hero. Until he finds someone worth dying for.

MallenIve is a city of monstrous extremes, where the magical Great Houses live in luxury and play a treacherous game of politics, while the Hobs and vampire clans struggle to survive. It's here that Felicita Pelim has run, leaving behind House Pelim, her family and her birthplace. By breaking propriety and arranging a marriage of convenience to Jannik, a free House vampire, she has been made a pariah. Felicita's only allies in MallenIve are two social outcasts who hate her for reasons she cannot fully understand, and Jannik, the one person she can trust, is withdrawing more with every passing day.It's not long before the city's prejudices start seeping into her life and Felicita finds herself slipping back into old prejudices. When a slave vampire is killed, she is shocked out of her complacency. Felicita tries to bring his murderers to justice only to expose a festering secret at the heart of the MallenIve Great Houses. And going up against the House Lords and their magic will cost her everything she has left.

Georgina Skyler Carey is not a necromancer. She's the daughter of one.And now she's dead.George has grown up hidden away, trying to live a normal life after her mother was executed for a ghost uprising which killed millions. Every year, the Anti-Necromantic Unit drags her in for testing, while the Empress of Life watches. And every year; nothing.Until she turns twenty, and the wards which were hiding her and binding her are finally erased, and Georgina discovers that she's still not a necromancer, just the immortal body designed to host the soul of an aeons-old goddess.Ousted from her meatsuit and trapped in the afterlife, George is determined to get her body back.It's not going to be that simple. George discovers that the afterlife is nothing like she could have imagined and the only people who might be able to help her have bigger issues to deal with. She's trapped in an afterworld that is slowly being consumed by the Hollow Dark which waits at the end of all things. There's a lot more at stake than one life - the entire realms of life and death will fall to the endless nothing of the Hollow Dark if the King of Death isn't returned to hold his throne. The worlds are crumbling all around her, and George is going to lose more than just her body if she doesn't find the King, and with him, the truth about her creation.

Shoreline of Infinity is the winner of the British Fantasy Society Award 2018 for best magazine/periodical.In this issueStories Thomas Broderick Rhiannon Grist Cat Hellisen Ken MacLeod Andrew Reichard Neil WilliamsonFlash Fiction Competition Winners Vicki Jarrett Emma Levin Eris YoungScience Fiction Poetry FJ Bergmann Harry Josephine Giles Richard StevensonRuth EJ Booth's BSFA award shortlisted column "Noise and Sparks" Pippa Goldschmidt on "The Future is already here"Mark Toner's Tales of the Beachcomber SF Caledonia: Chris Kelso on Neil Williamson Plus reviews

"Cat Hellisen is one of the most accomplished writers of African SFF. This fine collection gathers the best so far of her wondrous fictions." - Geoff Ryman, author of The Child GardenCat Hellisen has the ability to conjure a sense of 'otherness' that most writers can only envy, casting grounded characters driven by passions and ambitions we all recognise in situations that take a step away from the reality we know. Her stories have already featured in such venues as Fantasy & Science Fiction and Tor.com, and she is the winner of the Short Story Day Africa Prize.Learning How to Drown represents her best work to date, gathering together seventeen fabulous stories, two of which appear for the first time and all of which showcase why Cat Hellisen is being tipped as an author to watch."Cat Hellisen is a writer of wonderful and allusive stories; rich, engaging and often unsettling. Be prepared to be both submersed - and transformed - by the gripping magic within!" - Nick Wood, author of Azanian Bridges"I loved this stunning collection of stories, every tale limned with beauty and steeped in a darkling strangeness that is absolutely unique. The bookshelves of any reader interested in the modern short story should proudly display a copy of Learning How To Drown front and centre." - Neil Williamson, author of The Moon KingContents:IntroductionThe Girls Who Go BelowWakingThe Subtle ThiefJack of Spades, ReversedMother, Crone, MaidenThis Reflection of MeCounter CurseMouse TeethA Sun Bright PrisonSereinDreaming MonstersGolden Wing, Silver EyeI'm Only Going OverThe Face of JarryThe Worme BridgeThis is How We BurnA Green Silk Dress and a Wedding-DeathAbout the Author

Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast... unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever.