Creative Surgery

In Clelia Farris' mind-bending tales, you'll find captivating characters with elusive identities like Kieser, wholongs to transform himself through horrific procedures in Creative Surgery, or Yuliano (Secret Enemy), a man with no aesthetic taste, or Gabola, engaged in the battle of a lifetime against the expropriation of the Little Tuvu Hill. With dry and polished prose, like the stones of her native Sardinia, Clelia Farris takes us on adventures among the ruins of a future marred by climate change (A Day to Remember) and in a haunting prison inhabited by the enigmatic figure of Rebecca. Collected and translated into English for the first time, these seven stories represent some of the greatest works from one of Italy's best science fiction authors.Born in Cagliari in 1967, Clelia Farrisgraduated in psychology with a thesis on epistemology. A favoritewith both readers and experts, she is considered one of Italy's bestscience fiction authors. She won the Fantascienza.com awardwithRupes Recta,the Odyssey award withNo Man IsMy Brother,and the Kipple prize withThe Weighingof the Soul.In 2012 she publishedThe Justice ofIsis,set in the same futuristic Egypt ofTheWeighing of the Soul.In 2015 she published the novella,Creative Surgery, which has been included in theanthologies,Storie dal domani 2and RosariumPublishing'sFuture Fiction: New Dimensions in InternationalScience Fiction and Fantasy.She was a finalist for theUrania Mondadori Award 2016 with her story, Uomini e Necro.Her stories have also been published Italian and internationalmagazines such asRobot, Fantasy Magazine, Future ScienceFiction,andStrange Horizons.Rachel Cordascohas a Ph.D in literary studies and currently works as a developmental editor. Shes written forWorld Literature Today, Strange Horizons, andSamovar Magazineand also translates Italian SFF.Jennifer Delareisa full-time Italian-to-English translator.