Streetcar Dreams

Introduction: Jeffrey Ford
Cover Artist: TBC

Five of the six stories in this collection are Bowes' 'orphan tales', the ones that didn't end up as chapters in his novels Minions Of The Moon (1999) or From The Files Of The Time Rangers (2005).

The title novella, the World Fantasy Award winning Streetcar Dreams, is a 'Kevin Grierson' story and encapsulates the life and redemption of the gay, addicted, doppelganger-haunted protagonist. It shows up in Minions, but piecemeal as linking material, binding the other nine stories into a Lambda Award winning novel. In this volume we see Streetcar Dreams as it originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Three other stories, 'Someday I Shall Rise and Go', 'Transfigured Night', and 'A Huntsman Passing By', each as Publisher's Weekly said, "showcase (Bowes) signature interest in the strange intersection of fantasy and the drug-fueled 1960s underground."

The two stories, 'Circle Dance' and 'My Life in Speculative Fiction', which bookend the collection share a common first person narrator and structure.

Limited to 500 Hardcover copies

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