The Bride Price

Cat Sparks

Ticonderoga Publications, 2013 - Fiction - 288 pages

The debut collection by multi-award-winning writer Cat Sparks. Inside are 13 stories, including the Ditmar-winning A Lady of Adestan, Seventeen and All the Love in the World and the Aurealis Award-winning Hollywood Roadkill and Sammarynda Deep. "A vigorous and versatile writer with a keen eye and a wide and varied palette" Gardner Dozois "These stories will hook you with one weird world after another, and propel you to the end with typical Sparks-y energy." Margo Lanagan "Cat Sparks is a talented writer with an artist's sensibility. From fantasy lands of her own creation to far out in worlds in space and all places in between, there is never a dull moment in her stories." Ann Vandermeer "Read this book because you have surprises and treats and satisfaction in store if you do. Then recommend it to your friends." David G. Hartwell

About the author

Cat Sparks was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on September 11, 1965. Some of her novels include Chinaman's Bluff, Scarp, in The Bride Price, Beyond the Farthest Stone and Daughters of Battendown. She has won thirteen Ditmar Awards for writing, editing and artwork. She was the manager and editor of Agog! Press along with Rob Hood from 2002 to 2008. She produced ten anthologies of speculative fiction. She is the fiction editor of Cosmos Magazine. Sean Williams was born in Whyalla, Australia in 1967. He studied at Adelaide University receiving a Bachelor of Economics. Sean completed a Masters in Creative Writing in 2005 and is currently a PhD candidate. Sean is a prolific writer. His books include the Books of the Catalcysm and (with Shane Dix) Evergence, Orphans and Geodesica series. Sean is a multiple recipient of both the Ditmar and Aurealis Awards. He won the 2015 Aurealis Awards Best Science Fiction Short Story. His novelisation of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was the first novelisation of a computer game to debut at #1 on the "New York Times" bestseller list.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Bride Price
• Author: Cat Sparks
• Illustrated by: Sean Williams
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Ticonderoga Publications, 2013
• ISBN: 1921857420, 9781921857423
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)