The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

World Fantasy Award winner, Hugo, Nebula, John W. Campbell, and Locus Award finalist for Best Novella, and one of NPR's Best Books of 2016

Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women's College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.
d"Kij Johnson's haunting novella The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is both a commentary on a classic H.P. Lovecraft tale and a profound reflection on a woman's life. Vellitt's quest to find a former student who may be the only person who can save her community takes her through a world governed by a seemingly arbitrary dream logic in which she occasionally glimpses an underlying but mysterious order, a world ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares. Those familiar with Lovecraft's work will travel through a fantasy landscape infused with Lovecraftian images viewed from another perspective, but even readers unfamiliar with his work will be enthralled by Vellitt's quest. A remarkable accomplishment that repays rereading." --Pamela Sargent, winner of the Nebula Award

with his work will be enthralled by Vellitt's quest. A remarkable accomplishment that repays rereading." --Pamela Sargent, winner of the Nebula Awardwith his work will be enthralled by Vellitt's quest. A remarkable accomplishment that repays rereading." --Pamela Sargent, winner of the Nebula Awardwith his work will be enthralled by Vellitt's quest. A remarkable accomplishment that repays rereading." --Pamela Sargent, winner of the Nebula Award

Kij Johnson is the author of The Fox Woman and Fudoki, among other works. Amazing Stories, Analog, Asimov's, Duelist Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy have all published her short work. She was awarded the Theodore A. For her novelette in Asimov's, Fox Magic, she received the Sturgeon Award for the best short fiction of 1994. She won the Crawford Award for best new fantasy novelist of the year from the International Society for the Weird in the Arts in 2001.

She has lectured on creativity and writing at bookstores and businesses across the country, and has taught writing and science-fiction writing at Louisiana State University and the University of Kansas. She has volunteered at the University of Kansas' Center for the Study of Science Fiction's Writer's Workshop for Science Fiction since 1994. She's been teaching a series of writing workshops at the GenCon Game Fair since 1999. She's worked as a managing editor at Tor Books, a collections and special editions editor at Dark Horse Comics, an editor, continuity manager, and creative director at Wizards of the Coast, and a program manager on the Microsoft Reader in the last 10 years.

She's also worked as a waitress in a strip bar, worked as a radio announcer and engineer, edited cryptic crosswords, and worked as a radio announcer and engineer. She and her husband, writer Chris McKitterick, live in Lawrence, Kansas, with a dog and two cats.

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ISBN 13	9780765391414
ISBN 10	0765391414
Title	The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
Author	Kij Johnson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Tordotcom
Year published	2016-08-16
Number of pages	192
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.