On December 16, 2019, Candlemark & Gleam’s Reckless digital imprint will release Christine Lucas’ collection Fates and Furies. The stories are seamless fusions of SFF, myths and little-known history that murmur in the reader’s bone marrow, ranging from the uplands of Minoan Crete to the valleys of Mars and everything in between.

Genre legends Gwyneth Jones and Melissa Scott were ecstatic over Fates and Furies.

Gwyneth Jones: “Visions of the fate of our flesh, set in the far future and in our own bitter times, all informed by ancient Hellas: I think I liked the alien migrants in modern Greece best, but I loved all these stories. A very fine cover too!”

Melissa Scott: “This is an extraordinary collection. Myths old and new sing to readers, drawing them ever deeper into a world deeply informed by the Hellenic world. My only regret is that I would gladly have read more of every one of them.”

Christine Lucas lives in Greece with her husband and a horde of spoiled animals. A retired Air Force officer and mostly self-taught in English, she has had her work appear in many SFF magazines, including Daily Science Fiction, Pseudopod, and Nature: Futures. Her stories appear in highly-claimed anthologies; among them Ellen Datlow’s Tails of Wonder and Imagination (“Dominion”, Night Shade, 2010), and Athena Andreadis’ The Other Half of the Sky (“Ouroboros”, Candlemark & Gleam, 2013). She was a finalist for the 2017 WSFA award; her story “Χίλια Μύρια Κύματα” (“A Thousand Waves from Home”) won the 2017 Φανταστιcon Award; and she’s working on her first novel. You can visit her at http://werecat99.wordpress.com/.

Because GoodReads giveaways are no longer free and our coffers are of the usual size for indie micro-presses, we will be doing a direct giveaway for Fates and Furies. You can enter it by leaving a comment to this post or by sending an email (with subject line “Fates Giveaway”) to our website address. Please rest assured that your email will only be visible to the site admin.

The giveaway will run from November 12 to December 15, and random winners will be picked to receive a maximum of three digital copies of the collection. For up to 200 requests, there will be one award copy. For up to 400 requests, two copies; and beyond that, three copies. We will contact the winner(s) to request addresses when the giveaway is completed.

We can hardly wait to share this remarkable work with the world. Hold on to the mermaid’s hand as the haunting echoes of Hellenic myths swirl around you!

Note added on December 15: the giveaway is now closed.  We’ll pick winners and contact them within a week.