Book one in a new playful and trope-bending mystery series featuring a queer, nameless amateur detective. Rescued from torpor and poverty by the need to help a good friend deal with the murder of her beloved granddaughter, our downsized-social-worker protagonist and her cat, Bunnywit, are jolted into a harsh, street-wise…
Beginning with the iconic 1988 story “(Learning About) Machine Sex” and ending with a new tale written specially for this volume, Ice gathers thirty years of the dazzlingly imaginative short fiction of Candas Jane Dorsey, who, as writer, editor, publisher, writing teacher, reviewer, anthologist, and essayist, has had a dramatic…
Let us reflect upon soap. tl;dr: Soap. Spoiler Warning: Outcomes involving soap will be revealed. So, here’s a long story about soap. Before I can tell it I need to go back in history, as do those annoying recipe people on the internet who won’t give you the damned recipe…
An old woman hangs in a cage; a young woman slaves on a rich lord’s estate. How does a woman discover and assert her identity in a primeval, barbaric world? From slave dens to merchant cities to isolated mountains, Candas Jane Dorsey’s first novel is a powerful exploration of gender,…
