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Once Upon A Star: 14 SF-Inspired Faerie Tales (Once Upon Series) Paperback – April 27, 2019
Anthea Sharp (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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- Print length498 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 27, 2019
- Dimensions5.25 x 1.25 x 8 inches
- ISBN-101680130943
- ISBN-13978-1680130942
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- Publisher : Fiddlehead Press (April 27, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 498 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1680130943
- ISBN-13 : 978-1680130942
- Item Weight : 1.24 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.25 x 1.25 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,751,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,986 in Fantasy Anthologies
- #6,403 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction (Books)
- #17,774 in Mythology & Folk Tales (Books)
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New York Times bestselling author Alethea Kontis is a princess, storm chaser, and adventurer. She has authored over 20 books and 40 short stories, including AlphaOops: The Day Z Went First (Candlewick), Enchanted (HMH) and Prince Phillip’s Birthday Waltz (Disney). Alethea is the recipient of the Jane Yolen Mid-List Author Grant, the Scribe Award, the Garden State Teen Book Award, and two-time winner of the Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award. She has been twice nominated for both the Andre Norton Nebula and the Dragon Award. She was an active contributor to The Fireside Sessions, a benefit EP created by Snow Patrol and her fellow Saturday Songwriters in 2020. Alethea also narrates stories for multiple award-winning online magazines and contributes regular YA book reviews to NPR. Born in Vermont, she currently resides on the Space Coast of Florida with her teddy bear, Charlie. Find out more about Princess Alethea at aletheakontis.com
I have been teaching almost 40 years at high poverty schools in the rural South, and I still love going to work every day--usually!
"Notes from a Classroom" is a collection of essays about my students. "A Child's Book of Virtues" is a multicultural collection of stories and myths for intermediate readers.
I also write literary fiction when I'm not grading papers and writing a regular op-ed for The Charlotte Observer. "Why Women Moan In Bed" won the Norman Mailer Fiction Prize in 2012. Other short stories have been featured in regional journals, such as Luck, The Charlotte Writers Anthology, Main Street Rag, and We Are Not This.
For sci-fi and fantasy fans, "Orphans in the Black: A Space Opera" features 19 terrific writers (and my story "The Alien" is part of this e-book collection).
For fantasy fans, "Once Upon a Quest" is a terrific retelling of 15 fairy tales. Check out my story "Cat White" based on the French fairy tale "The White Cat."
For readers looking for a sci-fi fantasy mash-up, check our "Once Upon a Star." My story, "Candy House," is a sci-fi retelling of "Hansel and Gretel."
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There’s also nice world building. Some of the stories, like those by Anthea Sharp and Christine Pope, take place in between “episodes” of their long-running series, while others are “one-offs” the writers admit were a genre stretch. Moreover, while it’s possible to see some of the influences on the stories, the writers have augmented their ideas with other bits and pieces of lore and myth and folktale. And so, we have Grimm’s fairy tales coexisting with Pinocchio and Washington Irving’s Sleepy Hollow. Wrapping a science fiction skin around these old stories makes them feel as shiny as the titanium hull of a space craft.
If you like science fiction and fairy tales, this is a boxed set you NEED to get.
The story had a Ready Player One feel to it. It kept me turning those pages and I was never disappointed with each turn. I wanted to know more about this world and about Loxley. Like her story, her background. More importantly I wanted to know more about Ghost and his story. I know there is a good one there.
stories. A quick read. Great characters. Among my favorites was main character like Princess Estrella and Damryn secondary ones such as Imai and Izar in By the light of a distant star by Jenna Elizabeth Johnson.
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This is an anthology of well known fairy tales but written from a scifi background and it was fun figuring out which fairy tale each story was going to be inspired by. My favourite had to be Echo by Nikki Jefford which was a modern Pinocchio story


Review for Echo by Nikki Jefford
Echo is a Pinocchio inspired story, but with a twist on the storyline and characters which is brilliant.
Nikki Jefford has done an amazing job creating this story, with Echo being just a mischievous and constantly seeking adventure, as the character the story was inspired by. I highly recommend this beautiful story.
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