The Traveling Tide (Conversation Pieces, Vol.5) - Softcover

Love, Rosaleen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974655996 ISBN 13: 9780974655994

Publisher: Aqueduct Press, 2005

Synopsis

Rosaleen Love's stories play with the notion of vast aeons of time--time as experienced (or not) at the various levels of being, from the glacial to the organic, from the geological and the ecological to the human and posthuman levels. Within you'll find images of the sea and its stories.

The tales in The Traveling Tide fairly dance and sing their way along the page, whether the scene is music itself, as in the tale she tells of driving her cousin Bridie, an Australian musicologist and jazz pianist, on a pilgrimage to the source of her music in the US South, or the vast vistas of geological time, or even the arcane science of therolinguistics as it deconstructs the c(h)oral songs that are a series of texts written by air in water. Carmel Bird writes of the final story in the volume, ''Once Giants Roamed the Earth,'' ''This story is informed with deep concern for beauty of the earth and speaks urgently for respect and dignity. There is an air of menace and yet a pervasive hum of hope. The writing is firm, confident, and compelling.''

Reviews

”Once Giants Roamed the Earth,"winner of the 2005 Aurealis Award

”[...]Love coils Stapledon's cosmic vision neatly into a walnut shell, like one of those fine and precious fairytale fabrics that can fit into a tiny space yet expand into practically an entire wardrobe.”

Strange Horizons

”The stories here include a couple that draw powerfully on the Australian landscape (and seascape) as well as history and myth...But most effective for me was the spooky ‘In the Shadow of the Stones,’ in which a somewhat downtrodden woman reflects on her disappeared friends, as she walks the mysterious Australian shoreline."

Rich Horton, Locus

About this title

About the Author:

Rosaleen Love has published four collections, The Total Devotion Machine (1989) and Evolution Annie (1993), The Travelling Tide (2005), and Secret Lives of Books (2014). Her work has been frequently anthologized in mainstream as well as science fiction anthologies in Australia, Britain, and the US. She is also a science writer. Her book Reefscape, a series of essays on the Great Barrier Reef, was published in 2000 by Allen and Unwin, Sydney, and in 2001 by Joseph Henry Press in the US. In 2009, Love was awarded the A Bertram Chandler Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation.

Review:

Love coils Stapledon's cosmic vision neatly into a walnut shell, like one of those fine and precious fairytale fabrics that can fit into a tiny space yet expand into practically an entire wardrobe --Strange Horizons, Dec.13, 2005

The stories here include a couple that draw powerfully on the Australian landscape (and seascape) as well as history and myth...But most effective for me was the spooky ''In the Shadow of the Stones,'' in which a somewhat downtrodden woman reflects on her disappeared friends, as she walks the mysterious Australian shoreline. --Rich Horton, Locus, August 2005

About this edition

• Publisher: Aqueduct Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0974655996
• ISBN 13: 9780974655994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116