Description: On the surface, the world is rife with industrial pollution that ruins the health of poor factory workers while the idle rich indulge themselves in unheard-of luxury. Below are goblins, mysterious kingdoms, and an entirely different hierarchy. Desdemona, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family, is sent down into this kingdom, and must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below--Adapted from back cover.
Brief description: C.S.E. Cooney lives and writes in the Borough of Queens, whose borders are water. She is an audiobook narrator, the singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, and author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories (Mythic Delirium 2015). Her short fiction can be found in Ellen Datlow's Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Jonathan Strahan's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 12, Paula Guran's 2016 The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas, five editions of Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, Mike Allen's Clockwork Phoenix Anthology (3 and 5), Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons, Apex, Uncanny Magazine Black Gate, Papaveria Press, GigaNotoSaurus, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, and elsewhere.