Ruth Nestvold: 6 books

Originally published in Asimov's in 2003, "Looking Through Lace" was a finalist for the Tiptree and Sturgeon awards. The Italian translation won the Premio Italia for best work of speculative fiction in translation in 2007."'Looking Through Lace' by Ruth Nestvold is terrific...

"Ruth Nestvold's clever story "Mars: A Traveler's Guide" is simply wonderful. Written as a series of encyclopedia entries being accessed by someone unseen, it explains the workings of the planetary world on which it takes place, but also slowly reveals the compelling story of the person...

Have you written your first book and are considering self-publishing? Perhaps you have started looking into the possibility and are feeling overwhelmed by all the options, all the things you need to do and learn in order to become an indie author? Or maybe you aren't even sure yet whether self-publishing...

The Allied Interstellar Community first contact team on the planet Kailazh is faced with even more challenges than most. But dealing with an alien culture is not only difficult for those who arrive on a foreign world. What of the inhabitants of the planet, who now have to deal with realities so strange...

"Story Hunger" is a short collection of two stories and one flash fiction piece: a tale from the cycle of the Rose knights; a fantasy prose poem; a story of Native American magic and of Raven in an alternate Pacific Northwest. What these stories have in common is that they all revolve around the power of words; to affect us, to move us, to change us.

"A Serca Tale" is a retelling of the old Irish legend "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne." "King Orfeigh": A young Irish king has lost his wife to the king of Faerie. Is there any way he can win her back? "Happily Ever Awhile": Everyone knows the story of the filthy girl who married the prince by...