Сара Пинскер - Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea - Stories

“Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea,” Lightspeed, 2016

“The Low Hum of Her,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2014

“Talking with Dead People,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction 2016

“The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced,” Lightspeed, 2014

“In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind,” Strange Horizons, 2013

“No Lonely Seafarer,” Lightspeed, 2014

“Wind Will Rove,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2017

“Our Lady of the Open Road,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, 2015

“The Narwhal” appears here for the first time.

“And Then There Were (N-One),” Uncanny Magazine, 2017

Sarah Pinsker’s stories have won the Nebula and Sturgeon awards, and have been finalists for the Hugo, the Locus, and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. Her first novel, Song for a New Day, will be published in autumn 2019. She is also a singer/songwriter with three albums on various independent labels and a fourth she swears will be released someday soon. She was born in New York and has lived all over the US and Canada, but currently lives with her wife in Baltimore in a hundred-year-old house surrounded by sentient vines. Her website is sarahpinsker.com.

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“A delicate touch and passionately humanist sensibilities sweep through this magnificent collection.”

This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or used fictitiously.

Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea: Stories copyright © 2019 by Sarah Pinsker. All rights reserved. Page 291 of the print edition is an extension of the copyright page.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Pinsker, Sarah, author.

Title: Sooner or later everything falls into the sea : stories / Sarah Pinsker.

Description: Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018050543 (print) | LCCN 2018051754 (ebook) | ISBN 9781618731562 | ISBN 9781618731555 (alk. paper)

Classification: LCC PS3616.I579 (ebook) | LCC PS3616.I579 A6 2019 (print) | DDC 813/.6--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018050543

Paper edition set in Centaur 12 pt and printed on 30% PCR recycled paper by Versa Press in East Peoria, IL.

Cover illustration “Kurosawa” copyright © 2018 by Matt Muirhead (mattmuirhead.co). All rights reserved.