This collection of 23 stories reflects a diversity of approaches to key questions about the human condition, including questions about mortality, love, obsession, and creativity. "Balzac's War" is a harrowing, powerful far-future novella that pits brother against brother in a landscape ravaged by war with Earth's newly sentient human-made species. In 13th-century Cambodia, a lone artist is torn between his love of his craft and his unspoken love for a woman in "The Bone Carver's Tale." In "The Emperor's Reply" and "The Compass of His Bones," set in 17th-century Peru, the last Incan Emperor, having brutally fallen at the hands of the Conquistadores, seeks his revenge.
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Hardback Editions
June 2004 : Hardback
| Title: Secret Life Author(s): Jeff VanderMeer ISBN: 1-930846-27-4 / 9781930846272 (USA edition) Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
December 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Secret Life Author(s): Jeff VanderMeer ISBN: 0-8095-5652-9 / 978-0-8095-5652-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Prime Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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