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Alt Sagas: Stories
In three novellas and two short stories, ALT SAGAS unfolds the quandaries of our lives. Tragically displaced loyalty, a strange pocket of a forever war, aging, faith, social revolution, the perils of revenge magic and of physical nonconformity, and more are explored in worlds wholly distant, yet eerily familiar.
“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 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
“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 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
204 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 14, 2024
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About the author
Jean Huets
14 books24 followersJean Huets is author of the book With Walt Whitman, Himself, acclaimed as "a true Whitmanian feast” by Whitman scholar Ed Folsom. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review, The Millions, Ploughshares, On the Seawall, and Civil War Monitor. Other published works include The Bones You Have Cast Down, a novel set in late medieval Italy and inspired by the true story of the Popess tarot card, and The Cosmic Tarot book, based on the tarot deck by German visionary artist Norbert Loesche. She co-founded Circling Rivers, an independent press dedicated to literary nonfiction and poetry. Visit her at www.jeanhuets.com
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