The Wind from a Burning Woman is a collection of 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...

 stories by author Greg Bear

Greg Bear

Gregory Dale Bear is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict , artificial universes , consciousness and cultural practices , and accelerated evolution...

. It was released in 1983

1983 in literature

The year 1983 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Ironweed by William Kennedy is published.*Salvage for the Saint by Peter Bloxsom and John Kruse is published. This is the final book in a series of novels, novellas and short stories featuring the Leslie Charteris...

 and was the author's first hardcover book. It was published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

 in an edition of 3,046 copies. Two of the included stories were nominated for a Nebula Award

Nebula Award

The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...

. "Petra" was nominated in 1983, but lost. "Hardfought" was nominated in 1984, and won.

Contents

The Wind from a Burning Woman contains the following tales:

1. "Preface"
2. "The Wind From a Burning Woman"
3. "The White Horse Child"
4. "Petra"
5. "Scattershot"
6. "Mandala"
7. "Hardfought"

Others

• New York: Ace, 1984.
• New York: Popular Library, 1990.
• London: Century, 1992 (revised as The Venging).