Clays Beneath the Skies
2011
First Published
4.39
Average Rating
199
Number of Pages
The false diviner whose prophecies turn out to be true… the storyteller who risks everything to explore the taboo of cross-sex love… the traders who dare to explore the furthest reaches of the map and the runaway who learns to heal. Clays Beneath the Skies collects seven stories of the Jokka of Ke Bakil, an alien species with two chances at puberty to change sexes: female, neuter or male… a species crushed between the harshness of their world and the imperatives of biology. Whether it’s creating a new religion or choosing to accept the hand of a strange male in a dance, each Jokkad makes sense of its world in its own way. Seven voices. Seven choices. A completely alien world. Come explore. Includes the Strange Horizon’s Reader’s Choice story “Unspeakable,” the Tiptree Reading List story “Freedom, Spiced and Drunk," "New Stories, " "A Trifold Spiral Knot," "Money for Sorrow, Made Joy, "His Neuter Face" and "Fire in the Void." Backmatter includes a chronology and glossary. With special foreword by Hugo Award-winning editor Susan Marie Groppi.
Avg Rating
4.39
Number of Ratings
33
5 STARS
61%
4 STARS
18%
3 STARS
21%
2 STARS
0%
1 STARS
0%
goodreads
Author
M.C.A. Hogarth
Author · 82 books
Daughter of two Cuban political exiles, M.C.A. Hogarth was born a foreigner in the American melting pot and has had a fascination for the gaps in cultures and the bridges that span them ever since. She has been many things—-web database architect, product manager, technical writer and massage therapist—-but is currently a full-time parent, artist, writer and anthropologist to aliens, both human and otherwise. Her fiction has variously been recommended for a Nebula, a finalist for the Spectrum, placed on the secondary Tiptree reading list and chosen for two best-of anthologies; her art has appeared in RPGs, magazines and on book covers.
