Through the Bronze Mirror

By Carma Lynn Park

While continuing the tradition of Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler, Carma Lynn Park's debut collection of speculative fiction is a category of its own. In both short story and free verse forms, Park builds worlds in which petticoats co-exist with gene splicing, a space-traveling robot is transformed by a visit to a pre-industrial town festival, and a Medieval-like battle on a spaceship is fueled by caffeine. Dying is never far away in the realms Park creates, but neither is the afterlife; both are equally melancholy and magical, often darkly humorous. Park is in a conversation with her New Weird and slipstream fiction contemporaries, but her rich imagery and deft syntax distinguish her as a unique storyteller with a poet's voice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1966253206
• ISBN13: 9781966253204
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Match Factory Editions
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"