Tales of Blood and Ink

<p><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>Kate MacLeod writes both fantasy and science fiction. This book collects her nine previously published short stories as well as two new bonus stories. These tales span from Heian era Japan to the near reaches of space from alternate world fantasies inspired by Babylon and Mohenjo-Daro to post-apocalyptic air ships that never touch the ground from light-hearted fare like Trifle to the darker On Desperate Seas based on the ill-fated John Franklin Expedition. </span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>This collection includes:</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>Blood and Ink</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>Oil Fire</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>Gardens of Wind</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>Seagull and Raven</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>Mother River</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>Tale of a Fox</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>Full Circle</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>On Desperate Seas</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>Trifle</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>The Onmyoji's Wife</span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>Din Ba Din  </span><br style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;><span style=caret-color: rgb(51 51 51); color: rgb(51 51 51); font-family: Arial sans-serif;>(This short story appeared on the 2013 Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List was given an honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection and was recommended reading in Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014 Edition.)</span></p>