A CATALOG OF STORMS
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FRAN WILDE
From sentient storms to walkabout skyscrapers, mythical creatures to mysterious museum guides, the characters and tales of the 14 stories in Fran Wilde's A Catalog of Storms challenge and subvert expectations.
Here you'll find the Nebula and Hugo Awards finalists "A Catalog of Storms" and "Clearly Lettered in a Most Steady Hand," and multiple Best of the Year anthology selections such as "Shadow Plane" and "The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets."
The collection represents a decade of genre-spanning, celebrated stories from one of SFF’s most inventive and lyrical voices.
- August, 2025 978-1-958880-31-9
- trade paperback, 5.5 x 8.5
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From sentient storms to walkabout skyscrapers, mythical creatures to mysterious museum guides, the characters and tales of the 14 stories in Fran Wilde's A Catalog of Storms challenge and subvert expectations.
Here you'll find the Nebula and Hugo Awards finalists "A Catalog of Storms" and "Clearly Lettered in a Most Steady Hand," and multiple Best of the Year anthology selections such as "Shadow Plane" and "The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets."
The collection represents a decade of genre-spanning, celebrated stories from one of SFF’s most inventive and lyrical voices.
"Gentle humor, beautiful rage, exquisite worlds that image the past, the future, and the never-was, all come together in A Catalog of Storms. The depth and breadth of Wilde's talent is on display as she fluidly moves between genres with stories of hope and wonder. A gorgeous collection that will sweep readers away."
— A.C. Wise, author of Out of the Drowning Deep
"Fran Wilde's fiction turns poetry and magic into words. Read these stories and you will never again view in the same way such common things as storms, keys, museums, a child's love for unicorns. Wilde is an alchemist, turning the ordinary into the richly, rewardingly strange."
— Nancy Kress, author of Beggars in Spain
"Fran Wilde’s writing teases out dark threads from the seemingly ordinary. These stories will give you new and enlightening perspectives, while always focusing on that all-important human center. Enjoy!"
— Carrie Vaughn, author of The Naturalist Society
"Subtle, quiet, and convincing. This is the shape of science fiction to come."
— Michael Swanwick, author of The Iron Dragon's Mother and Stations of the Tide
"A beautiful collection of vividly-imagined worlds and well-realized characters, depicted in gorgeous prose."
— Caroline M. Yoachim, author of Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World
"The tales in this book, all excellent, possess a remarkable quality. While they are utterly contemporary state-of-the-art fantastika, there lingers about them a subtle aura of old-timey SF, a kind of solid craftsmanship and a subliminal shout-out to the genre’s lineage that is not always inherent in the SF of this postmodern century . . . Be that as it may, these selections from Wilde’s oeuvre constitute a remarkably pleasurable reading experience in any era . . . Wilde [has a] deep and broad range of subject matters. She varies her angles of literary attacks at will, and displays a flexible prose style that adapts to all tones and topics. But the most important quality of her work is an always discernible passion for her artistry and caring for her characters. We can hope she gives us as many more good books in the next decade as she has in her first."
— Locus Magazine
"Fran Wilde falls into the category of authors whom I always enjoy seeing on a new contents page because I remember liking her earlier work, but not until I see these stories gathered into a single collection do I realize how really excellent a writer she is. Not all of these stories are science fiction — some are fantasy, some contain elements of both genres. "How to Walk Through Historic Graveyards in the Digital Age" is probably my favorite, although there are several topnotch stories including "Clearly Lettered in a Most Steady Hand" and the title story. Her versions are often quite original, sometimes draw on mythology, sometimes modern technology, and almost all of them contain at least one unexpected twist. I have only read one of her novels, and I don't recall much about it. I need to correct that lapse. It is becoming increasingly common to find new authors whose prose is excellent but who have nothing to say and cannot tell a story. Wilde has neither of these faults and the result is a very readable collection that hopefully will demonstrate to readers that she is a writer to follow."
— Critical Mass
More Praise for FRAN WILDE
“Fran Wilde’s work combines exquisitely crafted worldbuilding, vivid and memorable characters, and stories that stay with readers long after they have turned the last page. Her stories are by turns exhilarating, heartbreaking and freeing. I always impatiently look forward to reading them."
— Aliette de Bodard, author of A Fire Born of Exile and Navigational Entanglements
"It's that rare bird, the follow-up to a highly praised first novel that doesn't just equal its predecessor's accomplishments, but exceeds them. I felt Updraft was a promising debut effort; Cloudbound sees much of that promise realized, with hints of more to come."
— Locus Magazine on Cloudbound
"Wilde's lean storytelling never missteps."
— Publishers Weekly
— A.C. Wise, author of Out of the Drowning Deep
"Fran Wilde's fiction turns poetry and magic into words. Read these stories and you will never again view in the same way such common things as storms, keys, museums, a child's love for unicorns. Wilde is an alchemist, turning the ordinary into the richly, rewardingly strange."
— Nancy Kress, author of Beggars in Spain
"Fran Wilde’s writing teases out dark threads from the seemingly ordinary. These stories will give you new and enlightening perspectives, while always focusing on that all-important human center. Enjoy!"
— Carrie Vaughn, author of The Naturalist Society
"Subtle, quiet, and convincing. This is the shape of science fiction to come."
— Michael Swanwick, author of The Iron Dragon's Mother and Stations of the Tide
"A beautiful collection of vividly-imagined worlds and well-realized characters, depicted in gorgeous prose."
— Caroline M. Yoachim, author of Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World
"The tales in this book, all excellent, possess a remarkable quality. While they are utterly contemporary state-of-the-art fantastika, there lingers about them a subtle aura of old-timey SF, a kind of solid craftsmanship and a subliminal shout-out to the genre’s lineage that is not always inherent in the SF of this postmodern century . . . Be that as it may, these selections from Wilde’s oeuvre constitute a remarkably pleasurable reading experience in any era . . . Wilde [has a] deep and broad range of subject matters. She varies her angles of literary attacks at will, and displays a flexible prose style that adapts to all tones and topics. But the most important quality of her work is an always discernible passion for her artistry and caring for her characters. We can hope she gives us as many more good books in the next decade as she has in her first."
— Locus Magazine
"Fran Wilde falls into the category of authors whom I always enjoy seeing on a new contents page because I remember liking her earlier work, but not until I see these stories gathered into a single collection do I realize how really excellent a writer she is. Not all of these stories are science fiction — some are fantasy, some contain elements of both genres. "How to Walk Through Historic Graveyards in the Digital Age" is probably my favorite, although there are several topnotch stories including "Clearly Lettered in a Most Steady Hand" and the title story. Her versions are often quite original, sometimes draw on mythology, sometimes modern technology, and almost all of them contain at least one unexpected twist. I have only read one of her novels, and I don't recall much about it. I need to correct that lapse. It is becoming increasingly common to find new authors whose prose is excellent but who have nothing to say and cannot tell a story. Wilde has neither of these faults and the result is a very readable collection that hopefully will demonstrate to readers that she is a writer to follow."
— Critical Mass
More Praise for FRAN WILDE
“Fran Wilde’s work combines exquisitely crafted worldbuilding, vivid and memorable characters, and stories that stay with readers long after they have turned the last page. Her stories are by turns exhilarating, heartbreaking and freeing. I always impatiently look forward to reading them."
— Aliette de Bodard, author of A Fire Born of Exile and Navigational Entanglements
"It's that rare bird, the follow-up to a highly praised first novel that doesn't just equal its predecessor's accomplishments, but exceeds them. I felt Updraft was a promising debut effort; Cloudbound sees much of that promise realized, with hints of more to come."
— Locus Magazine on Cloudbound
"Wilde's lean storytelling never missteps."
— Publishers Weekly
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