EMSHWILLER, Carol; CHENEY, Matthew (ed.)
Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller

Moon Songs is the first one-volume selection from Carol Emshwiller’s entire career, with stories from 1958 to 2012. Including “Moon Songs,” “Creature,” “Mrs. Jones,” “I Live with You and You Don’t Know It,” and “The Bird Painter in Time of War,” this collection is a guidebook to a unique vision and feminist voice, with engrossingly odd narrators, hyper-original imagery, and unguessable plot twists. Wry and ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking, poignant and poetic, these tales stand as testament to the vivid imagination of an original and uncompromising writer.

Carol Emshwiller was a winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, two Nebula Awards, a Philip K. Dick Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Her pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, China Miéville, Connie Willis, and numerous others.  Another admirer, Kelly Link, wrote the collection’s foreword.

“Carol Emshwiller’s stories are wonder-filled, necessary, and beautifully crafted.”
—Samuel R. Delany

“A major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist.”
—Ursula K. LeGuin

Published by Third Man Books, 2025
Science/Fiction