This Strange Way of Dying explained

This Strange Way of Dying
Author:	Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Cover Artist:	Sara Diesel
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Genre:	Fantasy, science fiction, horror
Publisher:	Exile Editions
Media Type:	Print (paperback), ebook
Pages:	206 pp
Isbn:	9781550963540
Dewey:	813.6
Congress:	PR9199.4 .M656174 S77 2013
Oclc:	843520578
Pub Date:	8 September 2013

This Strange Way of Dying is a collection of fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories by Mexican Canadian author Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It was her first book and first collection. It was first published in trade paperback by Exile Editions in September 2013, with an ebook edition following from the same publisher in August 2018.

Summary

The book collects fifteen short works of fiction by the author. Its stories are "infused with Mexican folklore" and feature "creatures that shed their skin and roam the night, vampires in Mexico City that struggle with disenchantment, an apocalypse with giant penguins, legends of magic scorpions, and tales of a ceiba tree surrounded by human skulls."^[1]

Contents

• "Scales as Pale as Moonlight" (from Exile Quarterly, May 2011)
• "Maquech" (from Futurismic, July 2008)
• "Stories with Happy Endings"
• "Bed of Scorpions" (from Tesseracts Thirteen, July 2009)
• "Jaguar Woman" (from Shimmer #10, April 2009)
• "Nahuales" (From Toasted Cake #60, February 2013)
• "The Doppelgangers" (2012)
• "Driving with Aliens in Tijuana" (from Expanded Horizons #4, November 2010)
• "Flash Frame" (from Cthulhurotica, January 2011)
• "The Cemetery Man"
• "The Death Collector" (from AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, February 2011)
• "This Strange Way of Dying" (from Giganotosaurus, August 1, 2011)
• "Bloodlines" (from v, September 2010)
• "Shade of the Ceibra Tree" (from Kaleidotrope, April 2011)
• "Snow"

Reception

The collection was reviewed by Leah Larson in Dark Discoveries #27 (Spring 2014), and Foz Meadows in Strange Horizons on 15 December 2014.^[2]

Awards

The book was nominated for the 2014 Sunburst Award, in the adult category.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. This Strange Way of Dying, Exile Editions, 2013. Publisher's blurb.
2. Web site: Meadows . Foz . Foz Meadows . 2014-09-17 . This Strange Way of Dying: Stories of Magic, Desire & the Fantastic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia . 2024-08-10 . Strange Horizons . en.
3. Web site: 2014 Shortlists The Sunburst Award Society . 2024-08-10 . www.sunburstaward.org.