Clockwork Phoenix

The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies series returns for a fourth installment through the miracle of Kickstarter, bringing you eighteen brand new tales of beauty and strangeness."This book is in several distinct ways a look into the future: the future of fantasy and science fiction, diverse, strange, and wonderful; the future of these individual writers, many of whom are at or near the beginning of careers which promise to be interesting; and, additionally, the future of publishing, in which a crowd-sourced publication from a very small press can produce, and can present professionally and beautifully, work which is at the height of what is being written in genre. This particular phoenix has risen from its ashes triumphant."— Strange Horizons"What kind of stories will you find in CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 4? Only those that are magical, imaginative, heart-wrenching, just plain bizarre, forward-looking, backward-looking, biological, romantic, hopeful, darkly funny and openly frightening. All the words that describe the best speculative fiction you’ve ever read apply. In fact, if this isn’t the epitome of speculative fiction, I don’t know what is."— Little Red ReviewerWith stories by Yves Meynard, Ian McHugh, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Richard Parks, Gemma Files, Yukimi Ogawa, A.C. Wise, Marie Brennan, Alisa Alering, Tanith Lee, Cat Rambo, Shira Lipkin, Corinne Duyvis, Kenneth Schneyer, Camille Alexa, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Patricia Russo and Barbara Krasnoff.Table of Contents“Our Lady of the Thylacines” by Yves Meynard“The Canal Barge Magician’s Number Nine Daughter” by Ian McHugh“On the Leitmotif of the Trickster Constellation in Northern Hemispheric Star Charts, Post-Apocalypse” by Nicole Kornher-Stace“Beach Bum and the Drowned Girl” by Richard Parks“Trap-Weed” by Gemma Files“Icicle” by Yukimi Ogawa“Lesser Creek: A Love Story, A Ghost Story” by A.C. Wise“What Still Abides” by Marie Brennan“The Wanderer King” by Alisa Alering“A Little of the Night” by Tanith Lee“I Come from the Dark Universe” by Cat Rambo“Happy Hour at the Tooth and Claw” by Shira Lipkin“Lilo Is” by Corinne Duyvis“Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer” by Kenneth Schneyer“Three Times” by Camille Alexa“The Bees Her Heart, the Hive Her Belly” by Benjanun Sriduangkaew“The Old Woman with No Teeth” by Patricia Russo“The History of Soul 2065″ by Barbara Krasnoff