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Aliens of the Heart collects four stories of the heartland by Carolyn
Ives Gilman. In these stories, Betty Lindstrom imagines leaving her husband
in the town of Lost Road and turning east instead of west out of town and
never coming back, but when she does drive west with her husband, alone
with the prairie and the wind, she can't get home; Susan Abernathy
undertakes to humanize Captain Groton, the alien charged with removing the
residents of Okanoggan Falls, WI, with consequences she could not have
imagined; Galena Pittman seeks to recover her lover, Thea, from the
mountains of Montana, where she devotes herself to literally painting the
landscape under the direction of the mysterious Dirigo; and the
Conservator, charged with preserving the many layers of the map of the
great river "on whose surface the past was written in cipher,"
discovers that the relationship between map and landscape is more
complicated than she had thought. "The Conservator" is original to
the volume. "Frost Painting" and "Okanoggan Falls" appeared in
Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction anthology series.
Reviews
"[These stories] are distinguished as feminist primarily in their
assumption that the stories of these (mostly small-town) women are worthy
enough to appeal to readers regardless of their own gender (or
geography). It's a simple assumption on the surface, yet revolutionary in
its own way, and a powerful piece in this series' conversation." (read the whole
review)
—
Daniel Ausema, The Fix, December 19, 2007
ISBN: 978-1-933500-17-1 (13 digit)
Publication Date: Nov 2007
paperback 124 pages
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