The fox's tower and other tales

Yoon Ha Lee

Book - 2021

"Enter a world of magic and myth, where foxes fall in love and robots build their own dragons. ... Full of fascinating creatures and LGBT+ romances, this collection combines the classic with the contemporary in Yoon's captivating style"--Page 4 of cover.

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Subjects
Genres
Science fiction
Short stories
Published
Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Yoon Ha Lee (author)
Item Description
"Inspolit"--Page 4 of cover.
"A collection of magical short stories"--Page 1 of cover.
Physical Description
101 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm
ISBN
9781524868130
  • The fox's tower
  • The dragon festival
  • The cursed piano
  • The melancholy astromancer
  • The school of the empty book
  • Moonwander
  • Sand and sea
  • The pale queen's sister
  • The sunlit horse
  • Tiger wives
  • The rose and the peacock
  • The youngest fox
  • The godsforge
  • The witch and the traveler
  • A single pebble
  • Two bakeries
  • The virtues of magpies
  • The stone-hearted soldier
  • The mermaid's teeth
  • The fox's forest
  • The village and the embroiderer
  • The tenth sword
  • The society of the veil
  • The leafless forest
  • The last angel.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Locus Award winner Lee (Phoenix Extravagant) takes on the folktale form in a collection of 25 gorgeous, magical stories, tiny jewels of worldbuilding that tap into mythic themes to feel somehow both ancient and delightfully fresh. Each story stands complete on its own, though a few characterizations recur, among them foxes who play tricks on humans and the powerful figure known as the Queen of the Birds. Several pieces point toward gentle lessons: a princess learns her true treasure is that which she's had all along in "A Single Pebble," while "The Pale Queen's Sister" imparts that friendship cannot be bought, but must be asked for. Others, like "Moonwander," evoke the genre of explanatory myth. Yet others are pure whimsy: robots build a dragon in "The Dragon Festival," a piano traps the magic of unicorns in "The Cursed Piano," and a siren lures a sailor to death to steal his teeth in "The Mermaid's Teeth." Lee's gently inclusive worlds often feature LGBTQ characters, as in "Tiger Wives," about a general hoping to catch herself a tiger wife, and "The Virtues of Magpies," about a nonbinary questing youth. Throughout, Lee conjures universal expressions of forest, sea, and kingdom that let the reader imagine that all the tales are of one fairy tale world outside of time and space. The result is breathtaking in its playful grace. Agent: Seth Fishman, the Gernert Company. (Oct.)

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