Fugue XXIX is the first full-length collection of short stories available from World Fantasy Award winning editor and author Forrest Aguirre. These marvelous tales come to you from the fringe of speculative literary fiction where innovative minds keep busy dreaming up the future’s uncharted territories and mining forgotten treasures of the past. Whether exploring the stars or unearthing ancient cultures these stories will surprise and delight. In Aguirre’s world anything can happen, and does, with regularity. [from publisher's web site]
Table of contents:
I Downstream Flow: A Fugue
II The Mystic Flower
III Tickets, Please
IV Four Canopus
V Convergence on a Panoptic Newtonian: The Interstices of Heaven
VI The Night Factory
VII Bearing Seed
VIII The Reverie Styx
IX Loyal
X Precognitive Myopia
XI Hopeless: A Triptych
XII Waiting for Felicity
XIII Over Alsace
XIV Return from Abaddon
XV In the Place Where Suffering Was Not
XVI The Universal Language of Silence
XVII Kaleidoscopes of Africa
XVIII Frenzy
XIX Matriarch
XX The Butterfly Artist
XXI The Nut Lady's Cabin
XXII The Bones of Ndundi
XXIII Beyond the Flame
XXIV The Death Machines
XXV Improv and the Man of Means
XXVI The Color of Laughter
XXVII Queen Phoebe
XXVIII Headlong
XXIX The Further Adventures of Star Boy