Meisha Merlin's second collection of Tanya Huff's short fiction, Relative Magic features four Terizan stories (3 previously published and one newly written especially for this collection), two stories from the Blood Series (one Vicky and one Henry), and eleven other fantastic stories. The collection also includeD new introductions to each story by Tanya Huff and a lovely cover from Keith Birdsong, famous for his Star Trek paintings. Burning Bright • [The Nine Wizards] • (1999) • novelette When the Student Is Ready • [The Nine Wizards] • (2002) • novelette Nanite, Star Bright • (2002) • shortstory All Things Being Relative • (2001) • novelette Now Entering the Ring • (1999) • shortstory Death Rites • [Quarters] • (2001) • novelette Oh, Glorious Sight • (2001) • novelett Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice • (2001) • shortstory To Each His Own Kind • (2001) • shortstory by Tanya Huff Nights of the Round Table • (2002) • shortstory by Tanya Huff Succession • (2002) • novelette by Tanya Huff Someone to Share the Night • [Henry Fitzroy] • (2001) • shortstory Another Fine Nest • [Victory Nelson, Investigator] • (2002) • novelette Swan's Braid • [Terizan] • (1996) • novelette by Tanya Huff In Mysterious Ways • [Terizan] • (1997) • novelette by Tanya Huff The Lions of al'Kalamir • [Terizan] • (1999) • novelette by Tanya Huff Sometimes, Just Because • [Terizan] • (2003) • novelette by Tanya Huff
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"Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Although I haven't actually lived "down east" since just before my fourth birthday, I still consider myself a Maritimer. I think it's something to do with being born in sight of the ocean. Or possibly with the fact that almost no one admits to being from Ontario… Raised, for the most part, in Kingston, Ontario. It was the late sixties, early to mid seventies. Enough said for those of us who lived through it-and those who didn't seem to be getting another chance to fall off platform shoes. Spent three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve: I was a cook. They'd just opened it up to women and I figured it would be the first trade that would send women to sea. I was right. Unfortunately it happened a year after I left. No tattoos. Received a degree in RADIO AND TELEVISION ARTS (B.A.A.) from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute: The year I graduated was the year that the CBC laid off 750 employees in Toronto alone. We were competing for jobs with people who had up to five years experience. The cat threw up on my degree. Spent eight years working at Bakka, North America's oldest surviving science fiction book store: Change Of Hobbit in California was actually a very little bit older but unfortunately it was a casualty of the recession in '91. During those eight years, while working full-time, I wrote seven books (the first seven, except for the original draft of CHILD), and nine short stories. In 1992, after living in downtown Toronto, a city of nearly three million, for thirteen years, I moved with two large cats, one small psychotic cat, and my partner out to a rented house in the middle of nowhere. In the years since, we've purchased the house, buried two of the original cats, replaced them with three more felines and, unintentionally, acquired a Chihuahua. You're probably wondering how two reasonably intelligent adults can unintentionally acquire a Chihuahua. Please don't ask. I love living in the country, writing full-time, anything by Charles de Lint, Xena, Hercules, and email. I dislike telephones, electric blankets, and bathroom renovations. I always expect catastrophe; as a result, I'm usually pleasantly surprised." Huff lives with her wife, Fiona Patton.
