I won’t write about them because I don’t want to close any of those possible doors.

I’m sure that if I wrote one version of how their lives unfolded, it would not be the same as what someone else imagined. I will never go back to them, because at the end of “Passing Strange” they go off on an adventure of their own, and tens of thousands of ways that could go. I might continue to revisit these characters, except for Emily Netterfield and Loretta Haskel. That takes place in San Francisco in 1969, and both Franny and Polly are in it. There’s also a story that takes place two years before “Passing Strange” about Polly called “Hey, Presto!” And I just finished and sold a story called “Pox” for “The Book of Dragons,” which will be out in July. It takes place three years after “Passing Strange,” but it is a very short story, 3,000 words, and entirely about Frannie’s magical process, in great detail. Well, there’s a story that came out four years before “Passing Strange” called “Caligo Lane,” you can find it online read it for free it’s also in my short story collection, WICKED WONDERS.

Will you be returning to these characters and this world in any future stories? Josh Wilson for THE FABULIST interviews Ellen Klages. The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web. Her numerous non-fiction works include Harbin Hot Springs: Healing Waters, Sacred Land (1991), The Science Explorer (1996 with Pat Murphy and Linda Shore), The Science Explorer Out and About (1997 with Pat Murphy and Linda Shore), The Brain Explorer: Puzzles, Riddles, Illusions and Other Mental Adventures (1999 with Pat Murphy, Linda Shore, and Pearl Tesler), and The Scary Ham (2014).Īll of us at Tachyon wish the extraordinary Ellen a happy birthday.

Cover by Ellen Klages Design by John D.

Klages emcees a popular auction at Wiscon that raises money for the Otherwise Award. Her many short stories have been collected in the World Fantasy Award Finalists PORTABLE CHILDHOODS (2007) and WICKED WONDERS (2017). Other works include the Nebula and Hugo Award nominee TIME GYPSY (1999), the Nebula Award winner “Basement Magic” (2003), the World Fantasy Award winner Wakulla Springs (2013 with Andy Duncan), World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award winner Passing Strange (2017), and Children’s History Book Prize winner Out of Left Field (2018). Acclaimed science, science fiction, and historical fiction writer Ellen Klages wrote The Green Glass Sea (2006), which won the prestigious Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction, and its sequel, White Sands, Red Menace (2008), which garnered her the California Book Award.

Passing strange by ellen klages