Asymmetry

Thoraiya Dyer

Mas 2013 · Twelve Planets Ibhuku elingu-8 · Twelfth Planet Press

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 An Australian Air Force base patrolled by werewolves. A planet where wages are paid in luck. A future where copies are made of criminals to interpret their dark dreams. A medieval cavalry of mothers who are only permitted to take as many lives as they have created.

In every world, an imbalance of power. Something terribly askew between women and men, humans and wolves, citizens and constructs, light and dark.

In every world, asymmetry.

‘The combination of strange and familiar gives Dyer’s fiction the power wielded by the best SF. The stories unerringly find the human inside the bizarre. These are unsettling, poignant, marvellous. Read them. You will be glad you did.’ - Nancy Kress

‘Dyer has a gift for fitting large questions into small spaces. This gift, along with her grasp of the real and surreal, allows Asymmetry to successfully explore imbalances, transformations, and unsettling asymmetries.’ - Aurealis, Issue 63

Table of ContentsIntroduction by Nancy KressAfter HoursZadie, Scythe of the WestWish Me LuckSeven Days in Paris

‘The combination of strange and familiar gives Dyer’s fiction the power wielded by the best SF. The stories unerringly find the human inside the bizarre. These are unsettling, poignant, marvellous. Read them. You will be glad you did.’ - Nancy Kress

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Thoraiya Dyer is an Australian writer, based in Sydney. Her work has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. She has won multiple Aurealis and Ditmar awards. In 2018, she was given a Ditmar Award for best novel for her work, Crossroads of Canopy. Nancy Kress is an author who won Best Novella at the Nebula Awards 2014 for her title Yesterday's Kin.