\"Tales of Old Gods and New\" collects ten stories from fantasy and science fiction writer Kate MacLeod: the high fantasy murder mystery \"Impostor Apparition,\" the western weird tale \"Unsafe, Unsound,\" the pseudo-Egyptian fantasy \"Tear of a Sphinx,\" the early Bronze Age fantasy \"Changing Tides,\" \"In the Waste Places,\" the sequel to \"Oil Fire\"; the science fiction story \"Taren and Keui,\" tale of two alien beings finding a way out of a zero sum game; the dark fantasy tale \"The Story for the Letters,\" about a little girl and an ancient evil; the science fiction story \"AI: Aesir Intelligence,\" where the sole survivor of a shuttle crash stays alive on a hostile world with the guidance of some unconventional babysitters; the science fiction story \"Upon the Lonesome Wild\" about a woman meant to be the matriarch of a far reaching clan on a newly discovered world who instead finds herself alone on a dying one; and the science fiction novelette \"The Inscrutable Visages of the Sowmyatha\" where a young officer finds it easier to communicate with a rocklike alien race than her human teammates. | Tales of Old Gods and New by Kate Macleod, Paperback | Indigo Chapters