TOC: ‘Female Science Fiction Writer: Collected Stories 2001-2012’ by Amy Sterling Casil

Book View Cafe has sent us the table of contents for Amy Sterling Casil’s new collection Female Science Fiction Writer: Collected Stories 2001-2012:

Mint-addicted aliens. Talking horses. Little girls in wheelchairs who get the chance to pilot starships. Odd little jade carvers who save the last great Mayan city by magic. A sexy wolf girl who saves a teddy bear boy and her clown boyfriend’s heart. A famous director who cloned herself and now is dying of cancer, only she’s raised her clone like a normal child. Guys at the end of the world who discover they’re not the world’s greatest poet, they’re about as bad as it gets. Fourteen stories by award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer Amy Sterling Casil.

The 138,000 word collection contains an introduction from the author, three never-before-published stories, Nebula Award-nominated and other award-winning stories, F & SF cover stories, and “favorite stories of the month” from a variety of publications.

Here’s the table of contents…

Funny

• “Mad for the Mints”
• “The Epicurean”
• “The Universe at the Bottom of a Cereal Box”

Weird

• “Heart of Jade”
• “This Monster”
• “Shakespeare in Hell”
• “Richard Dadd”

Serious

• “Chromosome Circus”
• “Smiley the Robot”
• “Everything I Have is Yours”
• “To Love the Difficult”
• “Incandescent”
• “To Kiss the Star”
• “Perfect Stranger”