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White Flames: Erotic Dreams [Paperback]

Cecilia Tan (Author)
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May 13, 2008
In this groundbreaking collection Cecilia Tan (Black Feathers-15,000 copies sold) blurs definitions of sexuality and redefines women's erotica. She delves deep into the world of dark fantasy in a powerful collection of stories that interweave the supernatural and science fiction with the fantasy of daydream; she brilliantly combines noir erotica with startling sensuality to shatter the physical and emotional boundaries of sex.

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About the Author

Cecilia Tan writes about her many passions, from erotic fantasy to baseball. She is the author of Black Feathers and The Velderet, and has edited over forty anthologies for the publishing house she founded, Circlet Press. Her fiction has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Best American Erotica, and many other places. Tan lives in Cambridge, MA.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Running Press (May 13, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0786720808
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786720804
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,645,620 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I write about my passions, which include baseball, erotica, gourmet food, martial arts, and travel. I write fantasy, science fiction, erotic fiction, paranormal romance, and anything else that stimulates my imagination.

In the erotica field, I've been published everywhere from Ms. magazine to Penthouse, and I'm in many, many anthologies and the Best American Erotica series. Susie Bright called me "simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." Erotic books I've authored include Black Feathers, White Flames, The Velderet, Mind Games, The Hot Streak, and The Siren and the Sword (Magic University, Book One). I've also edited many anthologies including Women of the Bite, Cowboy Lover, Sex In The System, Wicked Pleasures, SM Visions, for many different publishers, and many many books and ebooks for the independent publishing house I founded, Circlet Press. Those include Best Fantastic Erotica, Erotic Fantastic, Like an Animal, Like Crimson Droplets, and many others, both for Kindle and in paperback.

In science fiction/fantasy I have been published in Asimov's magazine, Strange Horizons, Absolute Magnitude, and many other places.

In baseball, I am the editor of the Maple Street Press YANKEES ANNUAL, author of The 50 Greatest Yankee Games, co-author of 50 Greatest Red Sox Games, the co-editor of THE FENWAY PROJECT, and co-editor of '75: The Red Sox Team That Saved Baseball. I write features for Yankees magazine and other publications. I have a web site of baseball essays, called Why I Like Baseball, at http://whyilikebaseball.com.

You can find out way more about me and my obsessions at www.ceciliatan.com

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars 21 very solid pieces of fiction, July 17, 2008
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TammyJo Eckhart "TammyJo Eckhart" (Bloomington, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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I wouldn't even limit these stories under the genre or "erotica" myself because they are solid pieces of fantasy, science fiction, contemporary fiction and borderline horror stories. My favorites were: "Rite of Spring," "Halloween," "Bodies of Water," "Just Tell Me the Rules," "Balancing Act," "Storm Rider,"and "Gyndroid". There is no one sexual orientation focused on though maledom and femsub are the most numerous, even those are shown through a fresh lens.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Thought-provoking too, January 29, 2011
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Ken Schneyer (Barrington, RI USA) - See all my reviews
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The trouble with the term "erotica" is that it is used as a marketing device to describe everything from highly literary fiction to pornography. Generally speaking, readers who enjoy literary fiction don't enjoy pornography, and vice versa. When one reads a work of "erotica," therefore, one is always taking a certain risk. (I'll admit that the same thing is true in other genres -- "fantasy," for example, could mean anything from mind-bending mythology to sparkly vampires.)

Cecilia Tan's work is clearly serious fiction that is highly erotic. She is concerned with issues of identity, agency, power and responsibility. She cares for the long-term happiness of her characters. She has a larger agenda.

For example, "The Little Mermaid" has always been a potential venue for erotic exploration because of the tail vs. legs dichotomy. But in Tan's hands, it becomes a medidation on the fundamental elements of life, the primal need for connection and passion, and the inability to silence the voice of one's needs once they have been awakened.

Similarly the science fiction piece "Now", which could simply recount a sexual ritual, instead explores the dynamic of love that cannot be fulfilled, where sexuality serves as a temporary and ultimately incomplete substitute.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Cecilia Tan's White Flames: Erotic Dreams, June 16, 2008
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Cecilia Tan is the best! I just loved the book. All the stories where great, but I have to say that I just loved "Dragon's Daughter" the best.
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