Kindle Price:	$1.08
	includes VAT*

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

Enter a promotion code or Gift Card

Flip to back Flip to front

Audible Narration Playing... Paused You are listening to a sample of the Audible narration for this Kindle book.
Learn more

Tide of Shadows and Other Stories Kindle Edition

by Aidan Moher (Author)

5 customer reviews

See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$1.08

—

Kindle
$1.08 Read with Our Free App

From Aidan Moher—Hugo Award-winning editor of A Dribble of Ink—comes Tide of Shadows and Other Stories, a collection of five science fiction and fantasy stories spanning adventure, comic whimsy, and powerful drama—from a star-faring military science fiction tale of love and sacrifice, to a romp through the dragon-infested Kingdom of Copperkettle Vale.

“A Night for Spirits and Snowflakes” is the story of a young man reliving the last moments of his fellow soldiers’ lives; “The Girl with Wings of Iron and Down” tells the tale of a broken family and a girl with mechanical wings; “Of Parnassus and Princes, Damsels and Dragons” introduces a typical prince, princess, and dragon—and a not-so-typical love triangle; “The Colour of the Sky on the Day the World Ended” follows a girl and her ghost dog as they search for a bright light in the darkness; and “Tide of Shadows” is about a soldier and his lover, a mother, and planetwide genocide.

Length: 89 pages

Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Mark Lawrence

4

Kindle Edition
$5.00
Michael R. Fletcher

20

Kindle Edition
$0.99
Daniel Polansky

30

Kindle Edition
$2.74
Charles de Lint

11

Kindle Edition
$1.06
Robert Jackson Bennett

250

Kindle Edition
$6.56
Kai Ashante Wilson

18

Kindle Edition
$3.06

Product Details

File Size: 1424 KB
Print Length: 89 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: A Dribble of Ink; First edition (May 4, 2015)
Publication Date: May 4, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00VR2LEMI
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

X-Ray:

Not Enabled

Word Wise: Not Enabled
Lending: Not Enabled
Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,961 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
- #16 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Anthologies & Short Stories
- #23 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Steampunk

Would you like to give feedback on images or tell us about a lower price?

Customer Reviews

3.4 out of 5 stars

5 star		0%
4 star		40%
3 star		60%
2 star		0%
1 star		0%

See all 5 customer reviews

Share your thoughts with other customers

Write a customer review

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

A surprisingly solid debut collection that offers a little something for everyone

By Bob Milne on May 12, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition

Tide of Shadows and Other Stories, is a surprisingly solid debut collection from Aidan Moher, one that ably demonstrates his love for speculative fiction, along with his intimate understanding of the genre's tropes, forms, and styles. His Preface provides a nice author's introduction, and is in itself a well-written essay on the power and the voice of the short story. Meanwhile, the Story Notes that accompany each tale provide a glimpse into his mindset as reader, acknowledging his influences, both on the page and on the screen.

A Night for Spirits and Snowflakes is a grim sort of tale, one told with multiple voices, alternating between past and present. It's deliberately confusing and unsettling, placing the reader in the midst of both battle and ambush.

The Girl with Wings of Iron and Down is Twilight Zone sort of tale, full of sadness and loss, with new surprises to be found on every page. It's a story with more questions than answers, with an ending that's beautifully ambiguous.

Of Parnassus and Princes, Damsels and Dragons was probably my favorite piece in the collection. It's a very clever series of twists on the traditional Knight in Shining Armor trope, including one that's so perfectly absurd, I can't imagine how else the story could have ended. It's also a story that has a lot of fun with language, demanding a second (and even third) read to catch all the wordplay.

The Colour of the Sky on the Day the World Ended is the shortest piece in the collection, a bit of flash fiction that manages to pack a lot of story and emotion into just 700 words.

Tide of Shadows wraps things up with a story that, on the surface, seems to be an odd mix of coming-of-age space opera and hard military science fiction.Read more ›

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

For Writers, Not Readers

By D. Ratliff on May 9, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase

This is a short collection of stories, each one followed by author's notes that are the true heart of the work. He's sharing thoughts about how the sausage got made. That's very good if you're into that (4 stars) but very bad (2 stars) if you just want to read some stories.

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

A short, uneven yet ultimately enjoyable collection

By J.R. Karlsson on June 22, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition

Aidan Moher is better known for his Dribble of Ink fantasy site than he is for being an author, but all great writers of the genre first start as readers, so it's unsurprising that this collection has appeared.

Before we even open it up the cover beckons us in, exquisitely done and highly evocative. Whoever was responsible for this piece of art could (and maybe does) make a living out of it, easily.

Alongside this we have a recommendation from Brian Staveley of Emperor's Blades fame, which does absolutely no harm to this book's chances and is an excellent name to have attached.

The first issue for me was that the bulk of this work was Sci-Fi, which I don't really review. Having said that, I'm no stranger to the genre and persevered!

A Night for Spirits and Snowflakes is the opener, and one of the tales which was more up my street, featuring a battle of some sort told from multiple viewpoints within its short word count.

After this we delve into the world of Science Fiction shorts, and while none of them are particularly unpalatable, they didn't move me either. Moher is clearly taking cues from the genre's founding fathers, but I feel that none of the stories are given enough space to achieve what he set out.

That is until we reach the eponymous story at the end of the collection.

Tide of Shadows reminds me of Robert Heinlein at his best, but the emotive elements mean that it's probably more Joe Haldeman. We've got military science fiction with a very human element as a countdown to an imminent and seemingly hopeless assault begins.Read more ›

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

Nice collection of short stories

By Anya @ On Starships and Dragonwings on December 13, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition

This is a collection of four short stories from the author. The first is that kind of fantasy where it is really just alternative historical without any magic or anything, and that's not really my genre of choice. The second is an interesting fantasy about a girl with wings that definitely raises more questions than it answers. The third is a parody fairytale about a prince rescuing a princess from a dragon, but with a twist that seemed a bit odd to me (and not because I'm against love triangles going that direction, ha). Finally, Tide of Shadows is the fourth story and from which this collection takes its name. I was excited to get to it since it seemed like the main attraction, and it was interesting, but didn't really tell a satisfying story. All of these short stories were artistic in a way that didn't really appeal to me, but I'm sure will appeal to other readers.

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

An excellent taster, I hope there will be more

By David Harmon on May 10, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase

Five excellently crafted short stories, each very different from each other, each tangled in its characters emotions, each leaving questions unanswered in the best way possible.
Found a handful of spelling errors, but while annoying, it's not worth quibbling over. Definitely pick this up.

Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...

Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again

Report abuse

See all 5 customer reviews (newest first)

Write a customer review

.jsOffDisplayBlock { display: block; } .jsOffDisplayInline { display: inline; } .jsOffVisibility { visibility: visible; } .jsOnDisplayBlock { display: none; } .jsOnDisplayNoneBlock { display: block; } .jsOnDisplayNoneInline { display: inline; } .jsOnDisplayInline { display: none; } .jsOnVisibility { visibility: hidden; } .jqOnDisplayBlock { display: none; } .jqOnDisplayInline { display: none; } .jqOnVisibility { visibility: hidden; } .jqOnDisplayNoneBlock { display: block; } .jqOnDisplayNoneInline { display: inline; }