Table of Contents:
1. The Life and Times of Penguin
2. Running on Two Legs
3. Black Swan, White Swan
4. The Bunny of Vengeance and the Bear of Death
5. A Nose for Magic
6. The Center of the Universe
7. The Wizard of Eternal Watch
8. Mortal Clay, Stone Heart

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ISBN: 978-1-4661-6573-1

Praise For “THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PENGUIN”:

Eugie Foster’s “The Life and Times of Penguin” succeeds in being, by turns, funny, thought-provoking, and poignant
—Douglas Hoffman, Tangent

Told from the point of view of a balloon animal penguin, the toy’s brief but eventful life manages to jam in enough existential angst to give Kierkegaard indigestion, an astonishing emotional depth, and yet fully embrace the essentially absurd nature of [Eugie Foster's] story.
—Martin McGrath, The Fix

both touching and uplifting
—Geoff Willmetts, SF Crowsnest

a beautiful fantasy, which employs the trappings of children’s fiction, with adult emotional themes of risk and mortality.
—Talie Helene, ASif

Praise For “RUNNING ON TWO LEGS”:

A wonderful story, one that I enjoyed reading tremendously. It’s one of the best stories I’ve ever critiqued in my years of teaching writing workshops.
—A.C. Crispin

a beautiful story—touching without being sentimental, with characters that come believably to life.
—Victoria Strauss

the beauty of the language carries one along…It is difficult to write a thoughtful story that features a terminal disease without melodrama, and Eugie Foster achieves it with style.
—E. Sedia, Tangent

Praise For “THE BUNNY OF VENGEANCE AND THE BEAR OF DEATH”:

a profoundly strange supernatural look at the morality of revenge.
—Nick Gevers, Locus

the story is emotionally effective and, impressively, given its subject matter, makes its point through character and story rather than cold rhetoric.
—Ben Payne, Tangent

Introduction by Vonda N. McIntyre.

Table of Contents:
  1. Daughter of Bótù
  2. The Tiger Fortune Princess
  3. A Thread of Silk
  4. The Snow Woman’s Daughter
  5. The Tanuki-Kettle
  6. Honor is a Game Mortals Play
  7. The Raven’s Brocade
  8. Shim Chung the Lotus Queen
  9. The Tears of My Mother, the Shell of My Father
  10. Year of the Fox
  11. The Archer of the Sun and the Lady of the Moon (listen to me read this story)
  12. Returning My Sister’s Face

212 pages
Hardcover (March 2009): $23.95 (£16.00)
ISBN-10: 1-60762-010-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-010-5

Trade paperback (July 2009): $11.95 (£9.00)
ISBN-10: 1-60762-011-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-011-2

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ISBN-13: 978-1-4661-5052-2
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Textbook:

• English 243: “Introduction to Literature by Women” at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Fall 2010.
• ASA 189B: “Asian American Literature, Popular Fiction, and Racial Representation” at the University of California, Davis, Winter 2011.

Praise for RETURNING MY SISTER’S FACE:

Whimsy and malice—yes—also mystery, a very female sensuality, and wit. An elegant and entertaining book.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, Hugo, Nebula, Pushcart, and Newbery Award-winning author.

The tales are beautifully written, elegant, passionate, funny and moving. The entire collection is a delightful, magical bridge across cultures. I hope many readers find their way to it.
—Patricia A. McKillip, Locus, World Fantasy Best Novel, and World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award-winning author.

Noted short story author Foster offers a dozen enchanting and sometimes chilling tales alive with elegantly sketched characters and sensibilities drawn from Asian folklore…Readers who long for a break from European medieval fantasy will be charmed and entertained by Foster’s tales.
—Publishers Weekly

Up till now, fans of Eugie Foster’s clever, crystalline fairy tales, drawn from Chinese and Japanese mythology, had to seek out single instances of her stories in various magazines and anthologies. However, with the March publication of Returning My Sister’s Face: And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice, old aficionados can relish 12 of her tales all in one place…I wholeheartedly recommend this collection of tender and well-written stories.
—Elizabeth A. Allen, The Fix

In this elegant collection of stories Eugie Foster bridges the gap between the traditional fairytale and historical fantasy. Throughout the collection she alternates between re-tellings of Chinese and Japanese legends and original stories with elements drawn from the same deep wells. There is a formality to the writing that suits the traditional strain, giving a timeless authority to all the stories without making them unapproachable. On the contrary, they are charming to read.
—Holly Phillips, Fantasy Magazine

Lovers of fairy and folk tales who crave, as I do, stories from cultures not their own will delight in these deceptively simple tales. They are layered with tragedy and superstition, with spirituality and most importantly, with a fine sense of the marvelous.
—Erzebet YellowBoy, Cabinet Des Fées

Foster’s tone ranges from dark to light and whimsical…Lovers of fairytale fiction will find much to enjoy.
—Craig Laurance Gidney, Fantasy With Bite

Among collections by relatively new writers, I found Deborah Biancotti’s A Book of Endings, Eugie Foster’s Returning My Sister’s Face, and Cat Rambo’s Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight the most compelling.
—Jeff VanderMeer on The Best of 2009, Locus

[Eugie] tells her tales with such energy, grace and heart that one feels instantly transported and moved…I recommend this collection highly.
—Ken Schneyer

Eugie Foster’s Returning My Sister’s Face was a delight to read, the kind of book you can curl up to on a cold winter’s day and be effortlessly transported to another time and place….Foster certainly masters the mystical tonality of these types of folktales.
—Asian American Literature Fans

The writing is filled with both the graceful simplicity I have come to associate with Far Eastern literature and poetry as well as the modern edginess which comes with the meeting between two cultures…Returning My Sister’s Face remains one of the brighter sparks in the output of published writing for the year.
—Nin Harris, M/C Reviews

Winner of the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and nominated for the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, the 2010 WSFA Small Press Award, and the 2009 BSFA Award for Best Short Story.

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ISBN: 978-1-4657-9049-1

Praise for SINNER, BAKER, FABULIST, PRIEST; RED MASK, BLACK MASK, GENTLEMAN, BEAST:

This far future science fiction tale is an exploration of self identity and the masks we all wear in public…a beautifully written and fast-paced tale
—Jason Sanford (Story Recommendation of the Week, 1/19/2009)

an elegantly strange slipstreamish fantasy
—Gardner Dozois, Locus

disconcerting and thought-provoking in equal measure and should rightly earn its author wider exposure—and perhaps appearances in the Year’s Best and on various award ballots.
—Colin Harvey, Suite 101

the broadening of the theme from science fantasy psycho-drama to full sf dystopia is a satisfying shock, and just when you think she’s going to wrap things up with a relatively redemptive ending, Foster sneaks in a suckerpunch in the end that’ll leave you wide-eyed and a bit breathless…the conception and plotting are top notch, and it’s a much more sf-nal story than it initially appears. Recommended.
—Paul Raven, Velcro City Tourist Board

What a blast of sensory overload we’re given with ‘Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest, Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast’, a story in which Eugie Foster as usual doesn’t shy away from the darker and more unpleasant side of human nature…a wondrous, sickening, startling story that is sure to stick in the mind.
—Gareth D. Jones, SF Crowsnest

the best of the issue…A fantastic piece of worldbuilding.
—Matt Bruensteiner, Garbled Signals

The dream-like world that Foster paints is so beguilingly strange that this tale might have worked just as well even without the explanatory backstory, but regardless this is gloriously strange stuff, and a pleasantly untypical science fiction story.
—Lawrence Conquest, The Barking Dog

This surreal story of people living in a beehive society and changing their identity and personality each day…opens out into something dark, powerful and moving…including an ending that successfully avoids cliche and reminds the reader that freedom and self-discovery can lead to a great deal of pain.
—Sci-Fi Gene

The worldbuilding is very effective and very creepy…Halfway through, I was expecting this to go into familiar territory: the ending was a shock and a unpleasant but welcome surprise.
—Aliette de Bodard, All Quiet in France

a classy fantasy, a strange society in which the wearing of masks in not only compulsory, but one in which the mask worn confers a different daily identity…The implications of this are subtly portrayed, as is the response to those who oppose this status quo.
—Mark Watson, Best SF Reviews

Eugie Foster’s “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest: Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” is as bizarre and convoluted as its title, but in a good way…probably my favourite story this time round, an exotic and unusual piece that is never less than convincing.
—Bugpowderdust

Foster has created a fascinating world here.
—Sam Tomaino, SFRevu

Foster’s story might not take the reader where they expect to go, but it’s a heady journey nonetheless, encompassing sex and death, and it is told in an accomplished manner…powerful stuff.
—Martin McGrath, The Fix

a really engrossing otherworld fantasy
—Tansy Rayner Roberts, Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth

a cracking story of a human society which has stagnated into something like a bee colony crossed with a perpetual masquerade…This is the best story on offer in this issue.
—Nathan Brazil, Tangent

Nun ist es fűr mich die beste dieser Ausgabe.
—KEylmann-Report

Foster delivers an ending that isn’t what you think it might be, and raises some unsettling questions about the connection between non-conformity and sociopathy.
—Black Gate

Of the [Interzone 2009] novelettes, my particular favorites…Foster’s “Sinner…” is a colourful story of a world in which characters wear different masks each day and enact different, stylized, roles—not a new idea, but handled newly, with a dark ending.
— Rich Horton, The Elephant Forgets

Foster manages to keep the tale moving forward, using elegant but not flashy prose…a fascinating, absorbing story
—Aaron Hughes (Story Recommendation of the Week, 2/25/2010), Fantastic Reviews Blog

Reviews of the Escape Pod podcast:

yet another in a run of massively inventive, intelligent stories from Eugie.
—Alasdair Stuart

one of the most beautifully crafted stories I’ve ever read
—Nora Heineman-Fleck, “The Best Podcasted Short Fiction of this Year”

…each section of the story is a heightened emotional experience. The intensity of this story was spectacularly captured by Lawrence Santoro, who narrated in a dramatic manner that reminds me of Harlan Ellison. Bravo to author and narrator – a perfect match. A great story, truly worthy of a Nebula.
—Scott D. Danielson, SFFAudio.com

a heart-warming tale of an extra-dimensional Lovecraftian horror
—Norm Sherman, Drabblecast

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ISBN: 978-1-4660-6996-1

But the princess sleeps with a black wood stake through her heart, and her petal-soft lips conceal a pair of razor fangs. Is the prince savior or her ill-fated prey, lured to sinister purpose by a night fiend ruling a castle of the damned?

This is not the fairy tale you remember.

32 pages
Chapbook (2004): SOLD OUT
ISBN-10: 0-9748340-7-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-9748340-7-8

This chapbook is out of print, but “Ascendancy of Blood” is now available at anthologybuilder.com.

Praise for ASCENDANCY OF BLOOD:

Combining elements of Sleeping Beauty and vampire tales, Ascendancy of Blood is a quick, sharply-told, gorgeously-described chapbook by up-and-coming author, Eugie Foster. Her strength here lies in the lush prose and seductive imagery that permeates the pages.

—Michael M. Jones, SF Site

“Ascendancy of Blood” is Eugie Foster’s retelling of the fairy tale, “Sleeping Beauty.” But this retelling is sinister, a children’s tale no more, fraught with peril and filled with blood.

—Michael Gabriel Bailey, Tangent

A refreshing look at a traditional tale. Eugie Foster has written an enchanting little tale that keeps the reader interested until the very last word.

—Lesley, The Eternal Night

Foster’s got this style, this way of phrasing that makes you forget that you know what’s going to happen, and instead get lost in the flow of her words . . . . She’s a very good writer and I hope we start to hear a lot more from her.
—C. Dennis Moore, The Swamp

Just when readers think nothing new can be done to an old fable, along comes Foster. She reinvents sleeping beauty. Her take entertains and her twist, surprises . . . A fast, horror read that will surprise fable lovers.
—Christina Francine Withcher, Yet Another Book Review Site

36 pages
Chapbook (2005): SOLD OUT
ISBN-10: 1-933274-06-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-93327-406-5

This chapbook is out of print, but “Inspirations End” and “Still My Beating Heart” are now available at anthologybuilder.com.

Praise for STILL MY BEATING HEART/INSPIRATIONS END:

Eugie Foster’s vampire stories have everything a good vampire story needs to have . . . The author is a great story-teller, who pays attention to details, creates great characters, and uses a highly enjoyable style. Her choice of words and her use of language gives a very special flavour to these writings, which makes it hard to put this book down.For those who enjoy vampire fiction, this book is highly recommended.
—Ilona Hegedus, Novelspot

these two vampire short stories are beautifully written and darkly unsettling, each with a twist on accepted conventions that makes them at once familiar and new . . . Beautiful, and recommended.
—Amanda A. Gannon, Shadow Muse: Naamah’s Journal