Yukimi Ogawa - Free Library Land Online - Dystopia https://dystopia.library.land/ ru Yukimi Ogawa - Free Library Land Online - Dystopia DataLife Engine Like Smoke, Like Light https://dystopia.library.land/yukimi-ogawa/653046-like_smoke_like_light.html https://dystopia.library.land/yukimi-ogawa/653046-like_smoke_like_light.html Like Smoke, Like Light

Forthcoming in June 2023!

"Ogawa's debut collection of 17 speculative shorts stuns with its delicacy ... Harkening back to the oldest folk and fairy tales and raising pointed questions about how humans value and devalue each other, this is a showstopper." —Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Her work is unexpected, often horrific, and always enthralling. Weaving Japanese folklore in with the new, the weird, and science fiction horror elements, Ogawa's body of work is prolific and evergreen." —Thea James, Tor.com

A monster wearing the stolen dress of a deceased mother agrees to help the woman's orphaned son. A girl whose blood can cause hallucinogenic visions makes a daring escape from the merchants who traffic her. In a society where people are prized for their jewel-hued skins—indigo, silver, amber, emerald—one girl endures brutal bruises to shine brightest of...]]> Sun, 30 Jul 2023 21:01:36 +0300 In Her Head, In Her Eyes https://dystopia.library.land/yukimi-ogawa/186507-in_her_head_in_her_eyes.html https://dystopia.library.land/yukimi-ogawa/186507-in_her_head_in_her_eyes.html In Her Head, In Her Eyes
Pot Head, they called her. Heavy-head, they teased her. In a noble house of dye masters, Island-born Hase is an outcast, ridiculed by her fellow servants and employers - all because of the smooth, reflective sphere that covers her head. Little does the household know that Hase has a mission and a purpose, carried behind her pot-covered head, in her impenetrable eyes.]]> Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:22:08 +0200