How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past Present and Future

About this book

After a powerful sorceress is murdered shes summoned over the centuries to witness devastating changes to the land where she was born. A woman who lives by scavenging corpses in the Japanese suicide forest is haunted by her dead lover. A man searches for the memory that will overwrite his childhood abuse. Helios is left at the altar. The world is made quiet by a series of apocalypses. From the riveting emotion and politics of The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queens Window (Nebula winner) to the melancholy family saga of Eros Philia Agape (Hugo and Theodore Sturgeon finalist) Rachel Swirskys critically acclaimed stories have quickly made her one of the fields rising stars. Her work is by turns clever and engaging unflinching and quietly devastating--often in the space of the same story. How the World Became Quiet: Myths of the Past Present and Future collects the body of Swirskys short fiction to date for the first time. While these stories envision pasts presents and futures that never existed they offer revealing examinations of humanity that readers will find undeniably true.