Ekaterina Sedia: Moscow but Dreaming

“Kikimora” © 2005 by Ekaterina Sedia. Originally published in Jabberwocky, July 2005.

“Munashe and the Spirits” © 2006 by Ekaterina Sedia. Originally published in GrendelSong, September 2006.

“By the Liter” © 2008 by Ekaterina Sedia. Originally published in Subterranean Magazine, Spring 2008.

“A Play for a Boy and Sock Puppets” © 2007 by Ekaterina Sedia. Originally published in Text: UR—The New Book of Masks (ed. Forrest Aguirre), Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2007.

“The Taste of Wheat” © 2007 by Ekaterina Sedia. Originally published in Clarkesworld, August 2007.

“Cherrystone and Shards of Ice” © 2009 by Ekaterina Sedia. Originally published in HP Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, April 2009.

“Seas of the World” © 2007 by Ekaterina Sedia. Originally published in Sybil’s Garage, May 2007.

“End of White” © 2012 by Ekaterina Sedia. Originally published in Shotguns v. Cthulhu, Stone Skin Press, 2012.

“A Handsome Fellow” © 2012 by Ekaterina Sedia. Originally published in Asimov’s, October/November 2012.

Ekaterina Sedia resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically-acclaimed novels, The Secret History of Moscow , The Alchemy of Stone , The House of Discarded Dreams , and Heart of Iron , were published by Prime Books. Her short stories have sold to Analog , Baen’s Universe , Subterranean and Clarkesworld , as well as numerous anthologies, including Haunted Legends and Magic in the Mirrorstone . She is also the editor of Paper Cities , Running with the Pack , Bewere the Night , and Wilful Impropriety .

Visit her at www.ekaterinasedia.com.

“Sedia’s beautifully nuanced prose delivers both a uniquely enchanting fantasy and a thoughtful allegory that probes the Russian national psyche.”

“A lovely, disconcerting book that does for Moscow what I hope my own Neverwhere may have done to London…”

“The Secret History of Moscow really feels like a secret: an alternative world a half-dimension removed from ours, a place woven out of whisper and shadow, populated with forgotten creatures and even less-remembered thoughts.”

“A truly remarkable performance, written in a consistently graceful and focused prose, and it succeeds both as a coherent fantasy novel and a meditation on the anxieties of history.”

“Modern blue-collar Moscow is pitch-perfect… bustling yet seedy, disorganized and none too respectable.”

“Sedia’s novel captures the surreal strangeness of a city whose power structure is about to be toppled, and her focus on Mattie’s relationship with her creator allows her to grapple with the tiny power struggles inherent in all human relationships.”

“Sedia’s evocative third novel, a steampunk fable about the price of industrial development, deliberately skewers familiar ideas, leaving readers to reach their own conclusions about the proper balance of tradition and progress and what it means to be alive.”

“Sedia’s prose is a pleasure, her story a lovely place to have spent time, even with the horrors her characters face.”

“A quirky, joyous fantasy, Sedia shows how competing natural and supernatural worldviews can enrich each other.”

“Sedia superbly blends novel of manners, alternate history, and le Carré-style espionage with a dash of superheroes and steampunk.”

Moscow But Dreaming

Copyright © 2012 by Ekaterina Sedia. Cover art © by Andrey Obryvalin.

Cover design by Telegraphy Harness.

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ISBN: 978-1-60701-362-4