Angels & Exiles

"We dream of angels, black as space, and wish they could return from the future to warn us of the dark years ahead. We who have forgotten our origin, exiles in a land we may have shaped with our own hands; we who struggle to find meaning in a world that only vouchsafes us deadly revelation; we wage war, for reasons now lost to us, and our hopes are as tenuous as the light of a single star." In these twelve sombre tales, ranging from baroque science fiction to bleak fantasy, Yves Meynard brings to life wonders and horrors. From space travellers who must rid themselves of the sins their souls accumulate in transit, to a young man whose love transcends time; from refugees in a frozen hold at the end of space, to a city drowning under the weight of its architectural prayer; from an alien Jerusalem that has corrupted the Earth, to a land still bleeding from the scars of a supernatural war; here are windows opened onto astonishing vistas, stories written with a scientist's laser focus alloyed with a poet's sensibilities.

Ursula K. Le Guin

“. . . unpredictable, brilliantly imaginative, and very engaging . . .”

About the Author

Yves Meynard was born in 1964, in the city of Quebec, lived most of his life in Montreal and has recently moved to Ottawa. He has been active in Quebec science fiction circles since 1986, serving as literary editor for the magazine SOLARIS from 1994 to 2001. He has published over thirty short stories in French and over a dozen in English. He is a multiple award winner, with several Boréal and Aurora Awards, along with the Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Quebecois, Quebec's highest award in the field.He has published sixteen books in French and three in English: THE BOOK OF KNIGHTS, a Mythopoeic Award finalist, the massive novel CHRYSANTHE, and this volume.He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universite de Montreal and earns a living as a software developer.

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