Fudoki by Kij Johnson
In her skillful debut novel, Kij Johnson took the classic Japanese myth of the fox who dared to become a woman to win true love and created The Fox Woman, a tale of love and the nature of the soul. Set in the same universe as The Fox Woman, Johnson now enters the world of the creature Kagaya-hime, a woman-warrior and confidante to noblemen. This being started her journey as a tortoise-shell cat who saw her family destroyed by a fire that decimated most of the Imperial city. She has been rendered taleless, with no one but her left to pass on such stories as The Cat Born the Year the Star Fell and The Fire-Tailed Cat. Without her fudoki-self and soul and home and shrine-she cannot. keep the power of her clan together.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 | 9780765303912 |
| ISBN 10 | 0765303914 |
| Title | Fudoki |
| Author | Kij Johnson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2004-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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