In the Forest of Forgetting

Name: In the Forest of Forgetting
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Theodora Goss
ISBN: 9781705220887

Author: Theodora Goss

Narrator: Esther Wane

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/21/2020

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Collections & Anthologies, Short Stories

Synopsis

Theodora Goss's first major short story collection showcases such stories as "The Rose in Twelve Petals," "The Rapid Advance of Sorrow," "Lily, With Clouds," "In the Forest of Forgetting," "Sleeping With Bears," and many more.

About Theodora Goss

Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of many publications, including the short story collection In the Forest of Forgetting; Interfictions, a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; Voices from Fairyland, a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems; The Thorn and the Blossom, a novella in a two-sided accordion format; and the poetry collection Songs for Ophelia. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List, and her work has been translated into eleven languages. She teaches literature and writing at Boston University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on August 08, 2020

$1.99 Kindle sale, August 8, 2020, for this collection of 16 fantasy shorts by the very talented Theodora Goss, and I’ve only read one of them (where the GR librarians did their trick of moving short story reviews to a collection, so that review is below). I’m going to bite on this Kindle sale, thou......more

Goodreads review by Althea on February 03, 2015

This is the kind of mythopoeic fiction I like. A collection of quite short stories, but they pack a lot in to their brief length. "The Rose in Twelve Petals" A fractured retelling of 'Sleeping Beauty' (or, 'Briar Rose'), in a dozen brief vignettes, set in a more concrete version of Europe than the us......more

Goodreads review by Bryan on December 13, 2015

In the Forest of Forgetting is an anthology of beautiful, well crafted, and dreamlike short stories. They exist on the edges of dream, fable, and folklore, each one a unique take on the fantastic. With a very few words Theodora Goss takes us into visionary realms. Dreams are central to these tales. S......more

Goodreads review by Janelle on August 11, 2020

I’ve always enjoyed that section of fantasy writing that not only retells fairytales but takes them in different directions, to the darker places, or sets them in more contemporary situations. This collection of 16 stories by Theodora Goss is beautifully crafted, well written and reflects on many th......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on May 22, 2012

Here is an interesting collection of stories from Theodora Goss. I would rate some as 3 star and some as 5 star so the aggregate score is 4 stars for the book. The best and most personally meaningful was "In The Forest of Forgetting". In this story, the main character is in a dream like forest and ca......more