Misha

  • PRAYERS OF STEEL
hbk: none
pbk: Wordcraft of Oregon, (La Grande, Oregon) US, 1988

ISBN 1-877655-00-7 (US pbk)

short stories, slipstream, cyberpunk, postmodern, identity, cyberculture, women, native american culture

A chapbook of short fiction with illustrations by Tim Ferret. Nominated for Readercon Small Press Award for Best Short Collection, 1989. The prose piece, "Tsuki Mangestu", was used in a dynamic performance by two Australian composers and won the 1989 Prix d'Italia.


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"I was impressed by both the quality of the language and the vividness of the metaphors... I do like the incantatory effect and the restlessness of the rhythms... Her prose flashes knifelike or glows coolly depending on what kind of fire she wants to emit." --Michael Bishop.


"As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry." --