The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories

Praise for The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories: Nina Allan is a writer of rare talent. The Art of Space Travel addresses life's biggest questions with such delicacy and tenderness that you won't fear staring into the abyss. - Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger and The Deep Nina Allan is a great writer of the fantastic, here to remind us how weird it is to be alive. Her stories have a quiet urgency to them; they are moving and gripping and wholly themselves. Their strangeness helps us make sense of our own. This is a rare collection, to read, to ponder, to treasure. - Francesco Dimitri, author of The Book of Hidden Things I'm in awe of Nina Allan's storytelling. Each richly detailed tale hints at a far wider world, and many contain stories with stories, realities within realities, warping genre boundaries yet retaining a focus on entirely believable characters and, often, the contemplation of loss. Put simply, these are some of the best modern short stories I've read. - Tim Major, author of Hope Island One of the most able SF talents in science fiction. - The Times Praise for Nina Allan: A captivating exploration of community, tragedy and memory. Nina Allan's writing is enthralling. -Irenosen Okojie, on The Good Neighbours A fantastic book -Andrew O'Hagan, on The Dollmaker Her literary sensibility fuses the fantastic and the mundane to great effect -The Guardian, on The Dollmaker A subversive writer...playing with both the familiar protocols of genre and with the nature of the reading experience itself -Locus, on The Rift Brilliantly ambiguous -Tor.com, on The Rift One of the best books published this year in any genre -Strange Horizons, on The Rift