When librarians finally granted Kelley Armstrong an adult card, she made straight for the epic fantasy and horror shelves. She spent the rest of her childhood and teen years happily roaming fantastical and terrible worlds, and vowed that someday she'd write a story combining swords, sorcery, and the ravenous undead. That story began with the New York Times bestselling Sea of Shadows and continues with Empire of Night.
Armstrong's first works for teens were the New York Times bestselling Darkest Powers and Darkness Rising trilogies. She lives in rural Ontario with her husband, three children, and far too many pets.
Hayden Trenholm is an award-winning playwright, novelist and short story writer. His short fiction has appeared in many magazines, including Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and anthologies such as The Sum of Us and Strangers Among Us, and on CBC radio. His first novel, A Circle of Birds, won the 3-Day Novel Writing competition in 1993; it was recently translated and published in French. His trilogy, The Steele Chronicles, were each nominated for an Aurora Award. Stealing Home, the third book, was a finalist for the Sunburst Award. Hayden has won five Aurora Awards – three times for short fiction and twice for editing anthologies. He purchased Bundoran Press in 2012 and was its managing editor until the press closed in 2020. He lives with his wife and fellow writer, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, in Ottawa, having retired in 2017 after 15 years as a policy adviser to the Senator for the Northwest Territories.
A.C. Wise is the author of two collections published by Lethe Press, and a novella
published by Broken Eye Books. Her debut novel, Wendy, Darling was published by
Titan Books in June 2021. Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in
Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as twice more being a finalist for the
Sunburst Award, twice being a finalist for the Nebula Award, and being a finalist for the
Lambda Literary Award. In addition to her fiction, she contributes review columns to
Apex Magazine and The Book Smugglers.
Ursula Pflug is author of the novels Green Music, The Alphabet Stones and Motion Sickness; the story collections After the Fires and Harvesting the Moon; and the novellas Mountain and Down From. Her award-winning short fiction has appeared internationally in prestigious genre and literary publications for decades. Pflug has won small press awards in the U.S. from Dark Regions and Rose Secrest, and, in Canada, has been a finalist for the Aurora Award, the 3-Day Novel Contest, the Descant Novella Award, the ReLit Award, the KM Hunter Award, the Sunburst Award, and others. She is a Pushcart nominee. She lives in Norwood, Ontario.
MAHTAB NARSIMHAN is the award-winning author of numerous books, including The Third Eye, which won the Silver Birch Fiction Award, Mission Mumbai and The Tiffin. The Boy and the Banyan Tree is her first picture book for Scholastic. Mahtab is originally from Mumbai, India, and lives in Vancouver, Canada. Visit her online at www.mahtabnarsimhan.com.
Author Sherry Peters lives in Winnipeg, where she spends her days working at St John's College at the University of Manitoba, and her evenings and weekends writing. Her first short story, "The Greatest Honor" (Aoife's Kiss, September 2007), went on to be featured in their best-of anthology "Wondrous Web Worlds Vol. 8". Since then, her two novels, "Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf" and it's sequle "Mabel the Mafioso Dwarf" have been nominated for the Aurora Award for best YA novel, and "Mabel the Lovelorn Dwarf" won the 2014 Writer's Digest self-published e-book award in the YA category.
Sherry graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2005 and earned her M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in 2009. During her time in both these programs, she he developed many techniques to detect and silence her inner saboteur.
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Recommended by Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and School Library Journal.
There's a delicate balance between mental health and mental illness.
Who are the STRANGERS AMONG US?
We are your fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, friends and lovers. We staff your stores, cross your streets, and study in your schools, invisible among you. We are your outcasts and underdogs, and often, your unsung heroes.
Nineteen science fiction and fantasy authors tackle the division between mental health and mental illness; how the interplay between our minds' quirks and the diverse societies and cultures we live in can set us apart, or must be concealed, or become unlikely strengths.
We find troubles with Irish fay, a North Korean cosmonaut's fear of flying, an aging maid dealing with politics of revenge, a mute boy and an army of darkness, a sister reaching out at the edge of a black hole, the dog and the sleepwalker, and many more.
After all, what harm can be done.
AUTHORS: Kelley Armstrong, Suzanne Church, A.M. Dellamonica, Gemma Files, James Alan Gardner, Bev Geddes, Erika Holt, Tyler Keevil, Rich Larson, Derwin Mak, Mahtab Narsimhan, Sherry Peters, Ursula Pflug, Robert Runté, Lorina Stephens, Amanda Sun, Hayden Trenholm, Edward Willett, A.C. Wise
Introduction by Julie E. Czerneda
Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
Praise for Strangers Among Us
"Strangers Among Us . . . is important, shining a much-needed spotlight on issues that get far too little attention. A wonderful anthology, one of the major SF&F books of the year. Bravo!" -- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Quantum Night
"Stories do a masterful job of knitting legitimate and painful mental illnesses to characters who still retain agency and power." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Mental illness is an exciting theme for an anthology, leaving plenty of room for variety." -- Library Journal
"These stories address such varied subjects as agoraphobia, depression, schizophrenia, autism, anxiety, and addiction . . . readers who have mental illnesses may find themselves somewhere in these pages and as a result may no longer feel so alone or isolated." -- School Library Journal
"A solid effort, a mixed SF/fantasy original anthology, with a number of entertaining stories to be found within its pages." -- Locus (Gardner Dozois)
"The stories in Strangers Among Us are as varied in tone and approach as their authors. The power of the collection derives from this variety; while each story can be read in isolation, the assemblage of outsiders feels, on a whole, exultant. There is, indeed, strength in numbers, when each individual is accorded space and respect." --Quill & Quire
Honorable Mentions
2017 Aurora (Canadian SF&F) Award Winner
2017 Alberta Book Publishers Award Winner (Speculative Fiction Book of the Year)
2016 Foreword INDIES Finalist (Anthologies)
One honorable mention in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 (ed. by John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu)
Six honorable mentions in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection (ed. by Gardner Dozois)
One story selected for Wilde Stories 2017: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction (ed. by Steve Berman)
Título : Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts
EAN : 9780993969614
Editorial : Laksa Media Groups Inc.
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