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6 Stories by Kathe Koja
When I discovered that Kathe has a beautiful trade paper story collection but the publisher didn’t offer an ebook, I asked her if she could prepare a mini-collection for the Story Collection Storybundle. She cherry-picked these stories from diverse anthologies. Her acclaimed visceral style is intimately grounded in her characters so that a reader may easily empathize with people on the edge of society, sometimes on the edge of sanity, and experience their revelations. Enjoy Kathe’s exclusive 6 Stories in the Story Collection Storybundle.
–Lisa Mason

Praise for Kathe Koja’s short fiction:

“Daring . . . reminiscent of Poe and Calvino . . . In these stories, Koja uses her considerable gift for sensory description to real purpose.” – Publishers Weekly

“Koja’s provocative storylines and evocative prose combine reality with invention, the supernatural with the everyday.” – New York Times Book Review

For more about Kathe and her books, stories, and performance art, visit her at http://www.kathekoja.com/blog/. On Twitter, visit her @KatheKoja.

So there you have it, my friends. The Story Collection Storybundle is live! You the reader name your price—whatever you feel the books are worth. You may even designate a portion to go to a charity. Savor traditionally published, multi-award-winning stories from diverse and varied publications which the authors have collected for you.

The Bundle includes What I Didn’t See (a World Fantasy Award Winner) by Karen Joy Fowler (the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club), Collected Stories by Philip K. Dick Award Finalist Lewis Shiner, Errantry by four-time World Fantasy Award-winning Elizabeth Hand, The Green Leopard Plague by two-time Nebula Award-winning Walter Jon Williams, Women Up to No Good by multi-award-winning Pat Murphy, Strange Ladies: 7 Stories by New York Times Notable Book Author Lisa Mason, Wild Things by C. C. Finlay, the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and 6 Stories by Bram Stoker Award-winning Kathe Koja.

The time has come, the end is near. The Story Collection Storybundle lasts only until this Thursday, June 2, 2016 at https://storybundle.com/storycollection. Grab this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity while it lasts, and enjoy world-class reading over the summer and beyond.

Check out Kathe Koja’s interview with Jeff VanderMeer for Weird Fiction Review about The Cipher and writing weird fiction at http://weirdfictionreview.com/2012/05/interview-kathe-koja-and-the-weird/.

I won’t reprise the interview here. Please do visit the link to read the real deal.

VanderMeer had a New York Times bestseller last year, The Southern Reach Trilogy, in which his characters explore a mysterious forbidden realm, ostensibly a wildlands, that defies explanation and transforms all who venture into it.

Rather like the Funhole in The Cipher! If you enjoyed VanderMeer’s trilogy last year, you must read Koja’s classic in the Philip K. Dick Award Storybundle.

In the interview’s conclusion, Kathe touches on how growing up Catholic affected her childhood sense of wonder. That remark lead to the Q and A between her and Elizabeth Hand that follows.

So there you have it, my friends. The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle includes Aestival Tide by Elizabeth Hand (PKD Finalist), Life by Gwyneth Jones (PKD Winner), The Cipher by Kathe Koja (PKD Finalist), Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (PKD Winner), Dark Seeker by K. W. Jeter (PKD Finalist), Summer of Love by Lisa Mason (PKD Finalist), Frontera by Lewis Shiner (PKD Finalist), Acts of Conscience by William Barton (PKD Special Citation), Maximum Ice by Kay Kenyon (PKD Finalist), Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams (PKD Finalist), and Reclamation by Sarah Zettel (PKD Finalist).

The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle runs only until October 15. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. Download yours today at http://storybundle.com/pkdaward and enjoy world-class, award-winning reading right now and into the holidays.

Curator’s Note for 6 Stories by Kathe Koja, The Story Collection Storybundle Ends This Thursday, June 2! #SFWApro

Jeff VanderMeer Interviews Kathe Koja The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle #SFWApro