Scarborough Fair: And Other Stories

By Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Book Overview

Scarborough Fair and Other Stories includes "Introduction," "The Mummies of the Motorway," "Final Vows," "Whirlwinds," "Worse Than the Curse," "Boon Companion," "Long Time Coming Home" with Rick Reaser, "Mu Mao and the Court Oracle," "Don't Go Out in Holy Underwear or Victoria's Secret or Space Panties ," "The Invisible Woman's Clever Disguise," "A Rare Breed." Elizabeth A. Scarborough was born March 23, 1947, and lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington. Elizabeth won a Nebula Award in 1989 for her novel The Healer's War, and has written more than a dozen other novels. She has collaborated with Anne McCaffrey, best known for creating the Dragonriders of Pern, to produce the Petaybee Series and the Acorna Series. Others of Scarborough's titles are available electronically via Gypsy Shadow Publishing: www.gypsyshadow.com/ElizabethScarborough.html#top

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1497640237
• ISBN13: 9781497640238
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Open Road Media Science & Fantasy
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A Must Have for storytellers!

I've never read Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's books in the past, but I definitely will be looking out for them now. These short stories draw in the reader and make you laugh. Some of them make you choke up and think very long about our veterans. Some are very much showing her love for felines, and the ability of a cat to be above all other species on the earth... at least in their own minds. I picked it up because of the artwork on the cover by Ursula Vernon, a favorite artist of mine, and was not disappointed by the contents!

Delightful and varied short story collection

I discovered this book simply because I found the title and cover intriguing, but it gets even better on the inside! Each of the short stories is well-written and unique, and I loved them all. This book has appeal for almost everyone, from cat lovers to science fiction fans. (As it happens, I fall into both of these categories.) If you like fantasy, humor, mystery, or a story that leaves you a bit teary-eyed at the end, there is something in this collection for you.

runs the gamut of speculative fiction

This eleven-story collection runs the gamut of speculative fiction. For the most part, the tales take place on a "mundane" earth that is where the readers and the author live, but something extraordinary occurs to this everyday environs. Some of the contributions use supernatural elements, others fantasy, and finally science fiction to tell a story of the unexpected imposing on the "normal". Most contain humor (though some more are more subtle than others) and the key characters seem real whether they are mummies rising from roads or creatures residing in fairyland. Each tale entertains the audience who will agree on how astonishingly well Elizabeth Ann Scarborough blends the whimsical and otherworldly into the "realistic" in her telling of pleasant stories.Harriet Klausner