Stealing God And Other Stories — Bruce McAllister

Stealing God And Other Stories: A young woman in an abandoned house brings ruin to every man she meets. A wise-cracking hitman is recruited by an angel of God to kill the oldest vampire on Earth. A son travels into the past to find the mother he lost. In these and other tales, Hugo and Nebula nominee Bruce McAllister invites you into a universe where nothing is more important than what it means to be human.The eighteen stories here will fascinate and intrigue, and some of them will break your heart.-Ellen Datlow, multi-award winning editor and anthologist.In these wide-ranging and beautiful short stories, readers will feel the characters' emotions as their own.-Sheila Williams, editor, Asimov's Science Fiction.These stories are love letters... and ransom notes from half-remembered dreams... and sometimes both.-Trevor Quachri, editor, Analog Science Fiction and Fact.