Female Science Fiction Writer

These stories are like a disease -- only one you wouldn't mind catching. Mint-addicted aliens. Talking horses. Little girls in wheelchairs who get the chance to pilot starships. Odd little jade carvers who save the last great Mayan city by magic. A sexy wolf girl who saves a teddy bear boy and her clown boyfriend’s heart. A famous director who cloned herself and now is dying of cancer, only she’s raised her clone like a normal child. Guys at the end of the world who discover they’re not the world’s greatest poet, they’re about as bad as it gets. Fourteen stories by award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer Amy Sterling Casil.

This 138,000 word collection contains an introduction from the author, three never-before-published stories, Nebula Award-nominated and other award-winning stories, F SF cover stories, and "favorite stories of the month" from a variety of publications.

"Amy writes like Ray Bradbury on real sci-fi." -Tom Easton, ANALOG SF

"Amy simply shimmers," -Scott Nicholson, Kindle Bestselling author, Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner

"To Kiss the Star" is "a beautiful, poignant, moving story of a soaring mind trapped in a damaged body. Read it." -Robert J. Sawyer, #1 NYT and Amazon bestseller, Hugo, Nebula and Campbell award-winner.