Brenda Peynado

• Aug-2018
• / Science Fiction
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The Kite Maker is Brenda Peynado's science fiction novelette of how humans cope with alien contact.After aliens arrive on earth, humans do the unthinkable out of fear. When an alien walks into a human kite maker's store, coveting her kites, the human...

• Nov-2019
• / Science Fiction
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Brenda Peynado's "The Touches" is a Tor.com Original short story set in a post-apocalyptic world Salipa and Telo have perfect lives in the virtual reality world that humanity has retreated to after bacteria and viruses resistant to all medications ta...

• May-2021
• / Magical Realism
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An NPR Best Book of 2021NYPL 10 Best Books for Adults, 2021A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues rang...

• Aug-2024
• / Science Fiction
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"All at once a meditation on motherhood, grief, war, environmental collapse, dread, and the nature of memory and time. I ate it up." -- Lauren Groff, New York Times bestselling authorA multiverse story of love, loss, time travel, and final-stage capi...