Kij Johnson, Author . Tor $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0390-5
Johnson's mesmerizing second fantasy based on Japanese myth surpasses her inspired debut, The Fox Woman (2000). As the half-sister, aunt and great-grandaunt of the last three Japanese emperors, respectively, the princess Harueme has lived a long
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Kij Johnson, Author Tor Books $24.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-312-85429-4
HAn expansion of Johnson's acclaimed story ""Fox Magic,"" this moving novel is based on a ninth-century Japanese fairy tale. Depressed by his failures in the emperor's court, Kaya no Yoshifuji brings his wife, Shikujo, and his eight-year-old son...
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Kij Johnson. Small Beer (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (303p) ISBN 978-1-931520-80-5
In her first collection of short fiction, Johnson (The Fox Woman) covers strange, beautiful, and occasionally disturbing territory without ever missing a beat. Several tales take place in mythical Japan—or a place very much like it—featuring fox...
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Kij Johnson. Tor.com, $14.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9141-4
In Nebula-winner Johnson’s (At the Mouth of the River of Bees) absorbing novella, Ulthar Women’s College mathematics professor Vellitt Boe, who lives in the land of dreams, must track down Clarie Jurat, a student who seems to have run away with a...
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Kij Johnson. Small Beer, $24 (200p) ISBN 978-1-61873-130-2
Anthropomorphized friends Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and the notorious Toad of Toad Hall are back in Johnson’s sequel to Kenneth Grahame’s 1908 children’s novel set in Edwardian England, The Wind in the Willows. When a young lady-mole named Beryl and...
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Kij Johnson. Small Beer, $18 trade paper (302p) ISBN 978-1-61873-211-8
Hugo and Nebula award winner Johnson (The River Bank) returns with 14 dazzling speculative shorts. The collection opens with an altered photograph: Ukulele Squid Girl by Laura Christensen, which depicts a young girl with tentacles holding a ukulele.
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