{"product_id":"2940016480770","title":"Strange Ladies: 7 Stories","description":"As Lisa Mason mulled over her short fiction, she found seven wildly different stories with one thing in common--a heroine totally unlike her. Mason is the girl next door. She has no idea where these strange ladies came from.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"The Oniomancer\" (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine), a Chinese-American punk bicycle messenger finds an artifact on the street. In \"Guardian\" (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine), an African-American gallerist resorts to voodoo to confront a criminal. In \"Felicitas\" (Desire Burn: Women Writing from the Dark Side of Passion [Carroll and Graf]), an illegal Mexican immigrant faces life as a cat shapeshifter. In \"Stripper\" (Unique Magazine), an exotic dancer battles the Mob. In Triad (Universe 2 [Bantam]), Dana Anad lives half the time as a woman, half as a man, and falls in love with a very strange lady. In \"Destination\" (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction), a driver takes three strangers from a ride board on a cross-country trip as the radio reports that a serial killer is on the loose. In \"Transformation and the Postmodern Identity Crisis\" (Fantastic Alice [Ace]), Alice considers life after Wonderland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the joys of reading collections is getting a better sense of an author's range. In this instance, Strange Ladies offers everything you could possibly want, from more traditional science fiction and fantasy tropes to thought-provoking explorations of gender issues and pleasing postmodern humor. In each of the stories, we meet a very different woman....This is a must-read collection.\" The San Francisco Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa Mason has published ten novels, including Summer of Love, a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book, The Gilded Age, a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book, a collection of previously published fiction, Strange Ladies: 7 Stories, and thirty-one stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Her Omni story, \"Tomorrow's Child,\" sold outright as a feature film to Universal Studios.","brand":"Bast Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070047174896,"sku":"2940016480770","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016480770_p0.jpg?v=1763636537","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016480770","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}