The Collected Short Stories edition by Dana Stabenow Literature Fiction eBooks
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Edgar-award winning author Dana Stabenow is best-known for her Kate Shugak novels, but the unifying protagonist of almost all her writing—be it crime, fantasy, horror, or science fiction—is Alaska. This genre-spanning collection of 16 short stories features familiar characters like Kate and Jim, Liam and Wy, and Bill and Moses, but also ranges farther afield than many readers will expect, leaping from modern-day Anchorage to 22nd-century Mars to the fantasy kingdom of Mnemosynea. Remarkably disparate, but indisputably Stabenow, whose fertile imagination is anything but predictable.
Titles in this collection "Nooses Give," "Conspiracy," "Under the Influence," "Wreck Rights," "Cherchez la Femme," "Siren Song," "The Eyak Interpreter," "Any Taint of Vice," "On the Evidence," "Missing, Presumed…," "The Perfect Gift," "Gold Fever," "Cheechako," "No Place Like Home," "Justice is a Two-edged Sword," and "A Woman’s Work."
The Collected Short Stories edition by Dana Stabenow Literature Fiction eBooks
The Collection offered a peak into the regular cast of characters in Kate and Liam's books. I've never read her science fiction stories so I can['t speak to those stories. Wreck Rights was incredible and a fast read about something everyone experiences. Some spots just seem to have more accidents. .Maybe caused by glare from the sun. Maybe reflections or ice build up cause some places to be more dangerous. The locals always know were to rubber neck or go to see a serious accident.Thought provoking is one way to describe the many stories. Noose Gives another beyond expectation read of how much Kate hates alcohol problems for her people.
The selections from Alaska Traveler made me purchase that interesting and diverse collection.
One story will stay with me for ever. I don't recall the title. It tells of men on a moose hunt to feed their families. Failure is not an option. They take along a visitor who is discovered by Liam Campbell's love interest, pilot. She makes an unexpected landing to pick up a wandering man in the back of beyond. Check out this one for sure.
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The Collected Short Stories edition by Dana Stabenow Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This collection of short stories give you just a taste of Dana Stabenow's ability to tell a good story with strong characters and well laid out plots. Each of her series give you a genuine look into the environment in which the story is placed and the people who call it home. Her Alaska tales feel very authentic, which they should, since she is a native Alaskan. You cannot go wrong with this collection ... however, it may lead onto other paths of reading pleasure.
You can't go wrong with anything from Dana Stabenow. I read her entire series featuring Kate Shugak and many of the Liam Campbell series. All were carefully plotted, the characters fleshed out so they are completely believable, and her descriptions of the Alaskan scenery create a desire to put Alaska on your "places to go" list.
Great for fans of Stabenow, with some variety. The first story explains a mystery from the past referenced in Bad Blood, but my favorite is the second with the crazy brothers who have also appeared in a number of the Kate Shugak books- definitely some of the best background characters in the series.
In the last 4-5 months I have acquired & devoured every Dana Stabenow book & anthology that she's written. Read them all back to back. Feasted on them. What a body of work! It will be hard for me to wait for her next release. I love the Alaska books. Even got her magazine articles. I heartily recommend this author.
I found this author with a deal of the day on audible, since that time I have read or listened to everything she has offered up. I have cried, laughed, felt betrayed and experienced every emotion that the author has put out there. The next book if the 6th of may.
On the whole, followers of this author will not be too disappointed. The short stories were atypical. There were a few I felt should have been lengthened into a novel. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of stories included in this collection. It also introduced me to her new genre, fantasy with Mmenoseyma. (probably misspelled) Though I've read all of the Kate Shugak ad Liam Campbell series, this book fulfill my thirst for more. I was so hoping the Shugak series would continue but......
For some reason, “The Collected Short Stories” are not available as an audiobook, so I’ve picked up the ebook version and I’m having to imagine Marguerite Gavin’s voice in my ear as I read.
I bought the collection because I wanted to see how Dana Stabenow handles the short story form and I wanted to know more about Kate Shugak. Having read all of the Kate Shugak series, I was a little miffed to find that some of the events in the twentieth book are triggered by Kate’s actions in a short story I hadn’t read. So now I’m catching up.
The collection is split into five parts eight Kate Shugak stories, two Liam Campbell stories, three “Alaska” stories, a Star Svendotter story and two Mnemosynea stories, a completely new universe for me that turned out to be great fun. There are also excepts from “A Cold Day For Murder”, “Fire And Ice” and “Second Star”
The Kate Shugak stories were a welcome opportunity to get my imagination back into that universe and remind myself of why I enjoyed being there so much.
The first one “Nooses Give” is the one that later causes Kate so much trouble. It takes place a little before the first book, “A Cold Day For Murder” and shows a Kate who is both haunted and fierce. The story is told in a stark, matter-of-fact style that is quite chilling. The economy of the text has confidence of a Japanese line drawing If I hadn’t already read the Kate Shugak novels, this story would have had me reaching for them.
“Wreck Rights” is a mini-mystery that I enjoyed mainly for the chance to revisit that period where Kate was intentionally driving Jim crazy by making him aware that, even though he’d left her, he couldn’t be in the same room as her without being distracted.
“Siren Song” stands out as a first-rate short story, rather than a vignette from a larger piece. The non-linear structure of the story is a perfect fit for the content and the question of “was justice done” gets a more complex answer than usual.
“The Eyak Interpreter” is fun because it’s told from Johnny’s point of view in the form of a series of blog posts. “Any Taint Of Vice” could have been a good main plot in a novel but felt a little rushed in short story form.
I’ve never really liked Liam Campbell but I enjoyed the books despite that. They have a harder, less romantic edge than the Kate Shugak books. The sex is more direct, the violence a little more graphic and there is an air of atonement, wrapped in mysticism that the Kate books don’t have.
The first Liam Campbell story “On The Evidence” is a good example of what the Liam books have to offer murders in the snow, fights into the wilderness in alarmingly small planes, dogged detection and a dash of spooky intuition. It’s also a well structured short story that is strong enough to stand alone.
“Missing, Presumed…” is a vignette describing the cute.meet between two of my favourite characters in the Liam Campbell books Bill Billingtong – a strong, older woman who runs a bar / diner and is also the (feared and respected) local magistrate and Moses Alakuyak an elder who hears voices that he drinks to make go away and who, among other things, teaches Campbell Tai Chi. In “Missing, Presumed…” Bill encounters Moses for the first time as juror on a inquest into the death of a sailor at sea that she is presiding over. I enjoyed seeing Bill when she was still coming to terms with being a magistrate and still coming to terms with her strong attraction to Moses.
The Alaskan Stories are connected only by being in Alaska. “The Perfect Gift” is a fun werewolf story, skillfully and stylishly accomplished, that I first encountered in Charlaine Harris’ “Wolfsbane and Miseltoe” Christmas anthology. “Gold Fever” is an amusing, if slight, tale of bad people who plan well. “Cheekako” is an atmospheric historical tale of the pragmatic justice meted out during the Klondyke gold rush.
The Star Svensdotter story was an intriguing idea but a little underdeveloped. I’d have preferred to see the situation worked through a little more before a resolution was reached.
The Mnemosynea stories were an unexpected delight. Who knew that Dana Stabenow wrote Sword & Sorcery stories? I really enjoyed the two stories here. The world show is rich with possibilities and the proposition in original and intriguing. I hope Dana Stabenow finds the time to turn this into a novel, or two, or three.
The Collection offered a peak into the regular cast of characters in Kate and Liam's books. I've never read her science fiction stories so I can['t speak to those stories. Wreck Rights was incredible and a fast read about something everyone experiences. Some spots just seem to have more accidents. .Maybe caused by glare from the sun. Maybe reflections or ice build up cause some places to be more dangerous. The locals always know were to rubber neck or go to see a serious accident.
Thought provoking is one way to describe the many stories. Noose Gives another beyond expectation read of how much Kate hates alcohol problems for her people.
The selections from Alaska Traveler made me purchase that interesting and diverse collection.
One story will stay with me for ever. I don't recall the title. It tells of men on a moose hunt to feed their families. Failure is not an option. They take along a visitor who is discovered by Liam Campbell's love interest, pilot. She makes an unexpected landing to pick up a wandering man in the back of beyond. Check out this one for sure.
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