Description

Retellings of the Inland Seas, the third member of its widely acclaimed Feral Astrogators series (its older siblings are The Other Half of the Sky and To Shape the Dark). The anthology re-imagines Mediterranean and Black Sea stories, from a Minoan exodus through wormholes to Furies on Mars, from space Argonauts to Imazighen and Scythian warrior queens. Inland Seas is the editor’s tribute to her aeon-deep roots, and her effort to reclaim foundational myths that are nevertheless considered déclassé common property because of long, casual handling that has flattened their echoing depths.

Contributors:

A.M. Tuomala, Melissa Scott, Shariann Lewitt, Genevieve Williams, Judith Tarr, James L. Cambias, Christine Lucas, F. J. Doucet, Alexander Jablokov, Kelly Jennings, Elana Gomel, Dimitra Nikolaidou, Athena Andreadis

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Praise for Retellings of the Inland Seas:

Anyone who can envision Atlantis as a doomed space-faring civilization about to be engulfed by rogue AI, or who has wondered what a bombastic, battled-hardened Odysseus would do when faced with unknown aliens while trying to escape an asteroid field, should take a look. —Sarah Rice, Booklist

In this gorgeous, intelligently edited anthology, Athena Andreadis offers fiction that draws on the past to illuminate future imaginative possibilities. Readers of science fiction and fantasy will find both beauty and solace in these eloquent, well-told tales. —Pamela Sargent, editor of Women of Wonder, author of The Shore of Women

The stories are universally strong and well written. There are no repeats, and the use of the source material by each of the authors is subtly different. // The stories in this anthology take classic, often familiar narratives and present them in modern forms that recapture and re-empower stories long obscured, polishing them into gems on the shore for readers to pick up and discover. —Paul Weimer, Hugo finalist SFF reviewer, Nerds of a Feather

This anthology provides a great feast for readers, whether they are steeped in the classics or just love good fantasy and science fiction. Several of these tales should win places on the upcoming award ballots, but this grouping deserves the ultimate compliment for an anthology and its editor: there’s not a bad story in it. —Nancy Jane Moore, author of The Weave and the forthcoming For the Good of the Realm

Classic myth meets feminist spec fic in this crunchy, challenging anthology. My favourite stories were the most science fictional: Furies on Mars! Argonauts in space! But I found them all all thought-provoking, providing fresh interpretations of some of our oldest stories. —Tansy Rayner Roberts, multiple winner of Ditmar and WSFA awards

Andreadis’s “Ancestral Campfire, Distant Beacons,” an editorial that acts as the introduction to the anthology, // serves as an engaging backdrop for the twelve stories (and one poem) that follow it, themselves a fresh reweaving of threads plucked from familiar myths. From fallen angels to wormholes in space, there’s something to please everyone in this anthology. —Tara Grímravn, Tangent Online

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Retellings of the Inland Seas
edited by Athena Andreadis
Published by Candlemark & Gleam, June 2020
284 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936460-95-3
eISBN: 978-1-936460-94-6
Cover artist: Eleni Tsami
Series: Feral Astrogators #3