Shortlisted for the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards
There are ten stories here including one readers have waited ten long
years for: in new novel-la The Border State Rowe revisits the world of
his much-lauded story The Voluntary State. Competitive cyclists twins
Michael and Maggie have trained all their lives to race internationally.
One thing holds them back: their mother who years before crossed the
border ... into Tennessee.
Praise for Christopher Rowe:
"Rowe's stories are the kind of thing you want on a cold, winter's night
when the fire starts burning low. Terrific."
--Justina Robson (Glorious Angels)
"As good as he is now, he'll keep getting better. Read these excellent
stories, and see what I mean."--Jack Womack (Going, Going, Gone)
"Rowe's work might remind you of that of Andy Duncan. Both exemplify an
archetypically Southern viewpoint on life's mysteries, a worldview that
admits marvels in the most common of circumstances and narrates those
unreal intrusions in a kind of downhome manner that belies real
sophistication."-- Asimov's
"As smooth and heady as good Kentucky bourbon."-- Locus
Christopher Rowe's stories have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula,
World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon awards, frequently reprinted,
translated into a half-dozen languages, praised by the New York Times
Book Review, and long listed in the Best American Short Stories. He
holds an MFA from the Bluegrass Writer's Studio. Rowe and his wife
Gwenda Bond co-write the Supernormal Sleuthing Series for children, and
reside in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky.
