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“Featuring astounding tales of exploration, time travel, AI-run cities, and cats with unusually long lifespans, The Astronaut Among the Flowers is the rare collection that will leave you full of joy, hope, and tears. This book harkens back to the old days of SF when wonder, heart, and imagination ruled.”
— Pedro Iniguez, Bram Stoker Award winner and author of Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories “Pull back the veil of stars, look past the light pollution, and see into various worlds occupied by robots, super soldiers, aliens, magic, and time slips. Cornell ticks a box for every lover of genre fiction.” — Jean-Paul L. Garnier, owner of Space Cowboy Books “The Astronaut Among the Flowers is as unexpected as its arrestingly visual title. Whether the genre is science fiction, science fantasy or horror, Cornell’s intimate stories all explore the human experience through visions of progress and technology, hope and fear, love and loss. From a unique perspective on a cat’s nine lives, to love and life at a time-slip hotel, and even a deathless soldier’s tragic dilemma, the collection excels at presenting fascinating premises which deliver deeply emotional gut-punches that stay with you long after the story ends.” — R.S.A. Garcia, Nebula and Sturgeon Award-winning author of The Nightward |
“The Astronaut Among the Flowers and Other Stories is a brilliant and beautiful exploration of exploration and wonder! Elegant and nuanced.”
— Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Bewilderness and Ghosts of the Void “P.A. Cornell’s The Astronaut Among the Flowers is an ambitious debut collection, with stories that are at times joyous, at times horrific, yet always satisfying. Cornell will make you nostalgic for the past and wary of the future, but most importantly, without fail, she’ll remind you of the enduring power of humanity.” — Derrick Boden, Sturgeon Award finalist author featured in Lightspeed and Clarkesworld “Prescient parables, otherworldly mysteries, and strange and distant futures weave together in this thought-provoking, compelling, and at times unsettling collection. This is a book that caters to every speculative taste, with sharp prose, brilliant concepts, and incisive commentary, spanning themes of love, fear, belonging, and what it means to be human. Not one to miss!” — Lyndsey Croal , author of Dark Crescent and Limelight and Other Stories |
