Ice and Other Stories

"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 dazzingly imaginative short fiction of Candas Jane Dorsey, who, as a writer, editor, publisher, writing teacher, reviewer, anthologist, and essayist, has had a dramatic and formative effect on Canadian literary, queer and feminist speculative fiction since her debut story was published in 1977. In Ice: an alienated would-be assassin makes a hobby of destroying drowned skyscrapers... A stolen child trained to kill discovers an alternative... A detective fails to save her digital daughter from a predator... A city becomes a museum under the curation of a bored former space-traveller... An abuse survivor discovers the shocking pain that underlies an ambitious personal art project... A tough, hard-boiled poet laureate tracks down a lost raison-d'être... A bridge of virtual birds leads a shape-shifting futurist into a turbulent landscape of love, email spam, and money... These are only a few of the scenarios brought to edgy, literate, evocative life in this landmark collection."--Dust jacket flap.