An Anthology for Gulf Coast Relief
edited by Tiffany Trent and
Phyllis Irene Radford
$4.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-025-5
All proceeds from the sale of this anthology will go to the Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund of the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
Breaking Waves offers glimpses of maritime splendor, poignancy, and humor through the works of poets, essayists such as Rachel Carson, and Hugo and Nebula-award winning authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, and David D. Levine.
REVIEWS:
“Breaking Waves is the dramatic book that poured from the disaster, allowing authors to fight oil with ink by raising funds. In return for our modest contribution to the fund by purchasing this ebook, we are treated to a cross-genre anthology with wide-ranging works from powerful writers. Contributing authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, award winning sci-fi authors, environmental writers, who somehow found the words to explain what they saw on the scene, and Rachel Carson, with an excerpt from The Sea Around Us”
—Helen Gallagher, blogcritics.org
“While this collection is predominantly speculative fiction, it must be said that readers of other genres shouldn’t feel there is nothing for them here. Aside from the essays and poetry, many of these stories carry elements of other genres and I believe it would be a fussy reader indeed who does not find something to sink his or her teeth into.”
—Jenny Mounfield, compulsivereader.com
“…for sheer heart-grabbing-ness, vividness, and trueness, it is quite a feat.”
Contents
Introduction by Tiffany Trent
Introduction by Phyllis Irene Radford
“In England in the Fifties” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“A Little Song, A Little Dance” by David D. Levine and Andrine de la Rocha
“A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature” by Vonda N. McIntyre
“Site 14″ by Laura Anne Gilman
“The House That We Built” by David Gessner
“Black Gold” by Tiffany Trent
“Autumn Leaves” by James Sallis
“My Mother’s People” by Elaine Isaak
“The Blue Curtain” by Brenda Cooper
“Christmas Count” by David B. Coe
“Eternal Return to the City of New Orleans” by James Sallis
“Javier Dying in the Land of Flowers” by Deborah J. Ross, writing as Deborah Wheeler
“Origami Action Heroes of Singing River” by Sandra McDonald
“The Power to Change the Shape of the Land” by Dayle A. Dermatis
“The Girl Who Dreamed of the Sea” by Judith Tarr
“The Sea Around Us” by Rachel Carson
“Terra Incognita” by Camille Alexa
“Suicide Note” by Mario Milosevic
“Serpent Singer” by M.H. Bonham
“Emergency” by Nancy Jane Moore
“Preparing for the Hurricane” by James Sallis
“After the Dragon” by Sarah Monette
“Comet Summer” by Jennifer Stevenson
“Backtiming” by Randy Tatano
“Rescue Work” by Pati Nagle
“Candace” by Judith Tarr
“I Sing a Song of Mourning” by Dayle A. Dermatis
“Galveston” by P. G. Nagle
“Indigo Bunting” by Lyda Morehouse
“Paradise” by Vonda N. McIntyre (Photographs by Carolyn McIntyre)
“Shark Attack” by Sue Lange
“Disaster Relief” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“A Field Guide to Ugly Places” by Patrick Samphire
“Troubled Water” by Kelly Ramsdell Fineman