Description:
Blending fairy tales and science fiction with the otherworldliness of adolescence, A Preponderance of Starry Being follows a far-flung cast of characters seeking a place to belong.
Review Quotes:
"Wild, magical, and unexpected." --Cincinnati Magazine
"The stories in Edmonds' new collection feel like fairytales told by an astronomer with a two-way telescope, observing both the distant reaches of space and the constellations we create with the people gathered around us on Earth." --Michigan Quarterly Review
"Edmonds masterfully combines the magic of space, science, mystery, wonder, and the weirdness of youth, all colliding into an incredible collection of stories. Evocative and ethereal, this book is anchored in the stars." --Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges
"Colliding the fabulist worlds of Calvino and Bender to create a literary tear in space/time, Edmonds draws readers closer to an event horizon where genre, adolescence, parenthood, and identity swirl in a maelstrom of almost becoming. These stories vibrate emotion and possibility amidst the fabric of the cosmos and mark the arrival of an imaginative talent that should be watched. Daring, often tragic, and filled with star stuff." --Sequoia Nagamatsu, author of How High We Go in the Dark