A is for Alien is Caitlin R. Kiernan

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is the author of many science fiction and dark fantasy works, including seven novels, many comic books, more than one hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes, and numerous scientific papers.- Overview :Born in Dublin, Ireland, she moved to the United States...

's fifth short story collection, her first devoted entirely to her science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 work. It was published by Subterranean Press in 2009. Cover art was provided by Jacek Yerka

Jacek Yerka

Jacek Yerka is a Polish painter from Toruń.-Life and work:Jacek Yerka was born in Toruń, Poland, in 1952 - where he later studied fine art and graphic design...

, and interior illustrations by Vince Locke

Vince Locke

Vincent Locke is an American comic book artist known for his work on Deadworld and A History of Violence and for his ultraviolent album covers for death metal band Cannibal Corpse.-Biography:...

. The book closes with an afterword by Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear

Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky is an American author. Writing under the name Elizabeth Bear, she works primarily in the genre of speculative fiction, and was a winner of the 2005 John W...

. "'Ode' to Katan Amano" originally appeared in Kiernan's 2005 collection of "weird erotica," Frog Toes and Tentacles. "A Season of Broken Dolls" and "In View of Nothing" originally appeared in Kiernan's Sirenia Digest, issues 15 and 16 respectively.

Contents

• • "Riding the White Bull"
  • "Faces in Revolving Souls"
  • "Zero Summer"
  • "The Pearl Diver"
  • "In View of Nothing"
  • "Ode to Katan Amano"
  • "A Season of Broken Dolls"
  • "Bradbury Weather"
  • Afterword by Elizabeth Bear