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1. The dream-quest of Vellitt Boe

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Author:

Johnson, Kij

Average Rating:

4 stars

Athens Drive Community - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

JOHNSON

Cary Regional - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

JOHNSON

East Regional - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

JOHNSON

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Physical Desc.	Availability
[2016]	First edition	Tom Doherty Associates	169 pages ; 21 cm	On Shelf Athens Drive Community - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror JOHNSON Cary Regional - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror JOHNSON East Regional - Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror JOHNSON	More Info

Description:

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...