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"In the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Neil Gaiman, Alt Sagas conjures up places and times almost familiar, unfolding the most profound quandaries of our own lives-and perhaps of our futures. Three novellas and two stories probe loyalty and what happens when it's displaced, social revolution, aging, faith, the perils of working magic, physical nonconformity, and more. ""In five tour-de-force tales, space crusaders and lonely Calibans sift through the cultural rubble on a hunt for hope and connection. A Norse saga, a Shakespearean tragedy, a Wild West showdown: Huets' imaginative takes on our cultural touchstones help to explain how we crashed our way into a frightening future; they also promise that we are more than the sum of our technology and our losses."" - Susann Cokal, The Kingdom of Little Wounds and Breath and Bones"

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"""Huets is an endlessly inventive writer, grounding speculations about the future in well-researched mythologies of the past as we know it. In these five tour-de-force tales, space crusaders and lonely Calibans sift through the cultural rubble on a hunt for hope and connection. Where personal history is written in tattoos and scars, the transcendent narratives of capital-H History are often literary, and they bring Big Events home to the heart: a Norse saga, a Shakespearean tragedy, a Wild West showdown. Huets' imaginative takes on our cultural touchstones help to explain how we crashed our way into a frightening future; they also promise that we are more than the sum of our technology and our losses."" - Susann Cokal, The Kingdom of Little Wounds and Breath and Bones ""A fresh, smart and highly entertaining story collection."" - Fred Leebron, The News Said It Was Praise for Jean Huets' The Bones You Have Cast Down Enchanting and richly historical, dazzling and dark, heart-wrenching and intoxicating. - Stuart R. Kaplan, Pamela Colman Smith A storytelling treasure. Speculative elements are deftly melded into the mix.... Thought provoking as well as entertaining. - Ron Andre, A Matter of Fancy"

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Jean Huets' writing has been published in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, North American Review, The Rumpus, Civil War Monitor, and other journals. She is author of With Walt Whitman, Himself, The Cosmic Tarot book, The Bones You Have Cast Down, and co-author, with Stuart R. Kaplan, of The Encyclopedia of Tarot. She co-founded Circling Rivers, which publishes poetry and literary nonfiction. Visit JeanHuets.com

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