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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Terri, Windling's, Dwarfs with the genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Black Swan, White Raven'
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conversations.value: Do you know the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Black Swan, White Raven
  It is the tradition of many fairy tales to have a prince awaken or otherwise rescue a princess. "The Dog Rose" instead focuses on less royal folk who might have an interest in the outcome.
  In the middle of May, when irises grow their beards and bleeding hearts shed their first white drop, Edward battled the sun for the life of the garden. Father was too old to haul buckets, so Edward carried the rain of the absent clouds on his shoulder-yoke. But in spite of his dousing, the herbs and flowers sagged under the growing heat. Shepherd's knot leaves shriveled and turned brown, and Edward saw the fevers he would not cure. The petals of the peonies curled up and died, and Edward dreamed of the gout that would flourish in months to come.
  Edward didn't answer. For every plant skeleton, he saw a man's bones. The ache in his shoulders grew worse with each day, just as Father's words grew harsher with each withered plant. The patch of sweet peas, the stand of bellflowers, reduced to brown stalks and sapless twigs. His muscles felt as if they were ripping off his bones, as if he were being stripped as bare as the garden.
  It was then that Edward heard the news of Thorn Castle. Dobelis the merchant told him when he came to trade with Father.
  Father's voice bristled. "We'll lose everything if you don't keep watering. Come, Dobelis, we'll go inside and leave Edward to his work."
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conversations.value: Do you know two more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Now suppose every person on Earth who lived outside of Scotland stood for a star without worlds. The Language of these stars is a thin, high-pitched scream that goes on forever until they have burnt themselves to a cinder or exploded. These stars have no life—imagine that everyone outside Scotland has died. Now take the people from our kingdom and spread them out through all the empty lands.
  Now take away everyone but the inhabitants of Berwickshire. This time the vanished ones stand for all the stars whose worlds are nothing but empty rocks, speaking the dry Language of rocks.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last three paragraphs? Start with the sentence 'Ellen Datlow has been fiction editor of OMNI since 1981'.
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conversations.value: Ellen Datlow has been fiction editor of OMNI since 1981. She has earned a reputation for encouraging and developing writers such as William Gibson, Pat Cadigan, Dan Simmons, and K. W. Jeter and for publishing Clive Barker, Stephen King, William Burroughs, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jonathan Carroll, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, and Jack Cady in OMNI.
  She has edited Blood is Not Enough, A Whisper of Blood, Alien Sex, Little Deaths (for which she won the 1995 World Fantasy Award), Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex, Twists of the Tale: Cat Horror Stories, Lethal Kisses, and with Terri Windling the World Fantasy Award—winning series The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Datlow has won the World Fantasy Award in the Special Award-professional category for her editing.
  Datlow has taught at Clarion West, the Brockport Writers' Forum, and the Suncoast Writers' Conference.