- Fairy tales, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general
For most people, the story of their lives is just that: the accumulation of time, encounters, and actions into a cohesive whole. But for an unfortunate few, that day-to-day existence is affected by memetic incursion: where fairy tale narratives become reality, often with disastrous results.
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Seanan McGuire
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 404
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781477809600
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See http://seananmcguire.com/bio.php Seanan McGuire won the John W. Campbell award for the best new writer at the 2010 Hugo Awards. She uses the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/horror and the pseudonym A. Deborah Baker to write the "Up-and-Under" children's portal fantasy series.
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