This Week at Book View Café

We're pleased to announce the publication of Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff's short story collection Shaman.

"The stories in this collection were first published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact between 1990 and 2011. They feature the adventures of eccentric kilt-wearing anthropologist / archaeologist / xenologist Rhys Llewellyn and his able assistants, Yoshi Umeki and Roderick Halfax. Given my fascination with archaeology, first contact… and all things Scottish, I suppose these stories were inevitable.”

–Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

Table of Contents:

Shaman
Squatter’s Rights
The Secret Life of Gods
Marsh Mallow
Simple Gifts

Want to read a sample story?

$4.99 (Story Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-174-0

Wiscon Post Post

I had a perfectly splendid time, although I will say that I cannot 1) drink, 2) stay up late, 3) eat as much as I used to be able to. Also, having left my Claritin at home had a material effect on my clearheadedness. Still, I enjoyed all my panels (surprisingly, the Monday morning 10am panel on Children in Jeopardy in SF and F may have been the best, despite the hour and my feeling, before hand, that I had a very limited range of things to contribute. In fact, I talked my head off, the audience was engaged, my fellow panelists smart and equally talkative...I woke up, even!). And I got to see a midwestern thunderstorm! (People who don't live in San Francisco may not understand my passionate longing for thunderstorms...we don't get 'em much, and I love them.)

I bought a new pair of Laurie Edison earrings, because I so love Laurie's work. I got to read with Pat Murphy, Nisi Shawl, and Eileen Gunn (talk about your rarified company) and made people laugh. I bought a book or two, I talked with too many people to count, and on Sunday night after the Tiptree Awards and Guest of Honor speeches I stood around in the hallway on the party floor working on a free-form song spear-headed by Elise Mattheson and Ellen Klages that involved "doing wrong things with squid." (Sample verse: "You may think I'm a little bit odd, but I've got a thing for a cephalopod.")

All in all, an excellent weekend. This morning at breakfast a bunch of us more or less spontaneously broke into "We Are Wiscon!" to the tune of the current Farmers' Insurance jingle. I love my People.

Now sitting in the adorable Madison airport waiting for my flight to Chicago, and thence (we hope) home. Last time I came back from Wiscon I had stomach flu and my flights were cocked up, so I'm hoping that this time I get compensatory good flight luck. We'll see.