Kij Johnson





Kij Johnson

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Kij Johnson is an American writer of fantasy. She has worked extensively in publishing: managing editor for Tor Books and Wizards of the Coast/TSR, collections editor for Dark Horse Comics, project manager working on the Microsoft Reader, and managing editor of Real Networks. She is Associate Director for the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, and serves as a final judge for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.

Johnson is the author of three novels and more than 38 short works of fiction. She is best known for her adaptations of Heian-era Japanese myths. She won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for the best short story of 1994 for her novelette in Asimov's, "Fox Magic." In 2001, she won the Internationa...more


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Average rating: 3.85 · 2,116 ratings · 390 reviews · 27 distinct works
The Fox Woman
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 511 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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Ponies
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The Man Who Bridged the Mist
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011
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Tales for the Long Rains
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The Coyote Road
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1998
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“Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself - a dead leaf, a cloud - with complete absorption. It is almost accidental how the two cats approach, a sidelong step and then the sitting again. This often ends in a flurry of spitting and slashing claws, too fast to see clearly, and then one or the other (or both) of the cats leap out of range. The game can have one exchange or many - and is not so different from the first meetings of women.”
Kij Johnson, Fudoki

“I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things.

For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities.

But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?”
Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman

“Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.”
Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman

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