Кидж Джонсон – лучшие книги

Я - Кицуне. Кто я? Женщина или лиса? Я была рождена лисой. И стала женщиной. Потому что полюбила. Это было условием для того, чтобы стать человеком. Но быть человеком - это больше, чем просто носить платья. Чем жить в доме, чем писать стихи. А что же еще? Ожидание. Одиночество. Грусть. Даже любовь не стоит этого. Но почему же нас так много? Лис в облике мужчин и женщин. Многие не справляются и возвращаются к своему лисьему облику. Или становятся людьми и теряют себя в океане боли. А некоторые лисы приобретают душу. Если находят свой путь. И тогда наши жизни становятся стихотворениями. И мы рождены для того, чтобы их рассказать. Я слышу…

Две части империи разделены рекой, которую покрывает странный туман и который не позволяет спокойно перебираться через реку. Только специальные люди — паромщики способны перевезти пассажиров на другую сторону реки. Но вот однажды появляется строитель, который собирается построить мост через реку, высоко над туманом. Что принесет его приезд двум разделенным частям империи и местным жителям?..

Все начинается с пчелиного укуса... Боль, цепочка странных событий и дорога — куда приведут они отчаявшуюся героиню и ее старого пса?

У каждой девочки есть Пони, так уж повелось. У каждой Пони есть крылья, рог и голос. Но чтобы дружить с другими девочками, каждая из них должна пройти церемонию обрезания: взять острый нож и лишить свою Пони крыльев и рога.
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Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.

"Kij Johnson's haunting novella The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is both a commentary on a classic H.P. Lovecraft tale and a profound reflection on a woman's life. Vellitt's quest to find a former student who may be the only person who can save her community takes her through a world governed by a seemingly arbitrary dream logic in which she occasionally glimpses an underlying but mysterious order, a world ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares. Those familiar with Lovecraft's work will travel through a fantasy landscape infused with Lovecraftian images viewed from another perspective, but even readers unfamiliar with his work will be enthralled by Vellitt's quest. A remarkable accomplishment that repays rereading." —Pamela Sargent, winner of the Nebula Award

In her skillful debut novel, Kij Johnson took the classic Japanese myth of the fox who dared to become a woman to win true love and created The Fox Woman, a luminous, lyrical tale of love, desire, joy, and the nature of the soul.

Set in the same universe as The Fox Woman, this time Kij Johnson takes on another animal totem and enters the world of the creature who comes to be known as Kagaya-hime, a sometime woman warrior, occasional philosopher, and reluctant confidante to noblemen.
And who may or may not be the figment of the imagination of an aging empress who is embarking on the last journey of her life, setting aside the trappings of court life and reminiscing as she follows the paths that are leading her to the nunnery and death.
Fudoki is the tale of a being who starts her journey on the kami, or spirit road, as a humble-if ever a being such as a Cat can be humble-small tortoiseshell feline. She has seen her family destroyed by a fire that decimated most of the Imperial city. This loss renders her taleless, the only one left alive to pass on such stories as The Cat Born the Year the Star Fell, the Cat with a Litter of Ten, the Fire-Tailed Cat. Without her fudoki-self and soul and home and shrine-she cannot keep the power of her clan together. And she cannot join another fudoki because, although she might be able to win a place within another clan, to do so would mean that she would cease to be herself.

So a small cat begins an extraordinary journey. Along the way she will attract the attention of old and ancient powers, including gods who are curious about this creature newly come to Japan's shores, and who choose to give the tortoiseshell a human shape.
And who set her on a new kami road, where Kagaya-hime will have to choose a way to find what happiness she can.

Weaving a haunting story of one being's transformation and journey of discovery with the telling of another's long life set against the backdrop of the courtly rituals of Imperial power, Kij Johnson has written a powerful novel about the nature of freedom and the redemptive power of transformation--if only one is brave enough to risk it all.

A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and The Secret History of Fantasy.

Kij Johnson's stories have won the Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards. She has taught writing; worked at Tor, Dark Horse, and Microsoft; worked as a radio announcer; run bookstores; and waitressed in a strip bar.

In this delightful dive into the bygone world of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and troublesome and ebullient Toad of Toad Hall are joined by a young mole lady, Beryl, and her dear friend, Rabbit. There are adventures, kidnappings, lost letters, and family secrets—lavishly illustrated throughout by award-winning artist Kathleen Jennings.

Эйми ездит по ярмаркам и фестивалям, показывая шоу с 26 обезьянками. Завершается шоу коронным номером, в котором все обезьянки залезают в ванну, подвешенную на цепях над сценой, и исчезают. Как и куда они исчезают, Эйми не знает, но они всегда возвращаются...