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Ellen Klages has published short fiction numerous in science fiction and fantasy anthologies and magazines, both online and in print, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Black Gate, and Strange Horizons.
Her story, "Basement Magic," won the Nebula Award in 2005. Several of her other stories have been on the final ballot for the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and have been reprinted in many Year's Best anthologies. She was also a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award. Klages has co-authored four books of hands-on science activities for children. The second book in that series, The Science Explorer Out and About, was honored with Scientific American’s Young Readers Book Award. Her first novel, The Green Glass Sea, about two eleven-year-old girls living in Los Alamos during the war, while mom and dad are building the bomb, received the Scott O’Dell Award for historical fiction. In addition to her writing, Klages also serves on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for fiction that explores and expands gender, and she is somewhat notorious as the auctioneer for the Tiptree auctions. When she’s not writing fiction, she sells old toys on eBay, and collects lead civilians |
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Portable Childhoods
by Ellen Klages
Also by Ellen Klages:
Time Gypsy
"Klages creates wonder-filled and beautiful worlds in her short stories, making this a tremendously satisfying collection."
—Booklist
Portable Childhoods offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary. Described by reviewers as "timeless," "delightful," "chilling," and "beautiful," this is short fiction at its best, emerging from a distinctive, powerful voice.
"Ellen Klages believes books can be magic, and now she's delivered the proof: this spell-weaving collection of her short stories. There are so many smart, sweet, funny, troubling treats here about so many things—childhood, chefs, God, barber shops, the atomic bomb—that it's nearly impossible to pick a favorite. Just read them all! They're great!"
—Connie Willis
Cover design by John Berry / Cover photos by Ellen Klages
-Publishers Weekly The kind of sf writer that comes along once in a decade...brilliant stories. -Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing Klages knows that if you can get inside a child's perspective, its all the fantasy you need, and she does it beautifully. —Locus Klages’ superb first story collection.... strong emotional stories. -Denver Post Consistently well written and emotionally stimulating, the book is one of the loveliest you'll find. -School Library Journal Online Klages has the true storyteller's gift of characters and plot. You believe in people from the first moment they appear on the page, and you can't guess where they are going. If many of the stories in Portable Childhoods are not already classics in the field, they should be. -Charles de Lint, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Haunting and crystalline...there are 16 reasons why you should inspect Portable Childhoods. Buy it. Read it. Set it down. Then pick it up and read it again! -Tangent Online Highly Recomended. I enjoyed each and every story in the collection. -SF Revu Ellen Klages's work seems as transparent as spring water, but this is a woman who knows that clarity and simplicity can pierce the heart. —Peter Straub Ellen Klages writes about childhood in brilliant, primary colors. Like Ray Bradbury, her nostalgic stories are like myths. —Maureen McHugh This delightful collection showcases the best of Klages. Her protagonists are lovable, her prose natural, and her charm evident throughout. —Karen Joy Fowler Welcome to Planet Klages! These stories are warm, witty, occasionally wise, and always wonderfully written. Ellen Klages is going to be big as big. Buy this book now, read it today, and become her fan forever. —Michael Swanwick I haven't been writing prose very long, but I've been reading prose long enough to know this— Ellen Klages approaches greatness. —Janis Ian Ellen Klages writes like a dream—a dream from which you wake up laughing, and that fills the rest of the day with its strangeness and sweetness. —Margo Lanagan Like childhood, these stories run deep with not-yet-happened nostalgia and fierce yearning for what never was. And, like children, they brim with joy, wonder, and wickedness. —Nicola Griffith When you surface out of an Ellen Klages story, it's like arriving home after a long trip: Your kitchen table, your car, your living room are all recognizably yours, but strange, and not half as real as the place you just came from. That place is the real world, and the people in it are as complex, unpredictable, and solid as you. It's a hard place to come back from. —Emma Bull Ellen Klages's stories combine the clear-eyed wonder of an intelligent child with the beautiful, controlled prose of a craftsman. And they have heart. What more could one ask of fiction? —Delia Sherman Reading any fiction by Ellen Klages, whether it's set in the basement of a home in Detroit or on the green glass desert sands near Los Alamos or at the favorite fishing spot of a father and his very special son, you are always submerged deep in the rich and strange magic of life. —Charles Vess Her stories are always a pleasure to read.... Ellen writes from the point of view of a young child like no one else I know. —Nalo Hopkinson Ellen Klages is the funniest lead civilian collector in science fiction. Maybe the funniest woman, too. —Joe Haldeman Praise for The Green Glass Sea Klages makes an impressive debut with an ambitious, meticulously researched novel set during WWII. —Publishers Weekly, starred review ...an intense but accessible page-turner, firmly belongs to the girls and their families; history and story are drawn together with confidence. —Horn Book, starred review Many readers will know as little about the true nature of the project as the girls do, so the gradual revelation of facts is especially effective, while those who already know about Los Alamos's historical significance will experience the story in a different, but equally powerful, way. —School Library Journal The story is [a memoir of the life of the small daughter of an atomic scientist, who recounts the events leading up to and following Trinity] in heartbreaking Klages style:, simple, subtle, emotionally powerful writing that will knock you on your ass again and again as you read it.... If you haven't read Klages before, you're in for a treat. —Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing Ellen Klages is a very careful writer—which is to say that she is full of care for her craft, and allows her readers the intelligence to take care of themselves. To take care, for instance, of the differences and resonances and contingencies between reality and fantasy, between real life and fairy tale; and to take care of what one can say to and about the other. —EDSF project Klages gives us sympathetic characters and slow-building suspense in an absorbing novel with a unique view of wartime. —Newhouse News Service This beautifully told and historically accurate story makes you feel what it would be like to be a kid in this surreal, secretive world of scientists, mathematicians, and their families. —Not Your Mother’s Book Club |
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