title: Clockwork Phoenix 3: New Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
author:  Marie Brennan 
description: Starred Review. Allen's third volume of extraordinary short stories reaches new heights of rarity and wonder. Marie Brennan sets the bar high with "The Gospel of Nachash," a fine reinterpretation of the Adam and Eve legend from a fresh perspective. Tori Truslow's scholarly "Tomorrow Is Saint Valentine's Day" tells the story of the Great Ice Train and its encounter with the merfolk on the Moon. Gemma Files's "Hell Friend" and C.S.E. Cooney's "Braiding the Ghost" are sinister, spine-tingling ghost stories. Cat Rambo deals with realism and escapism in her futuristic "Surrogates," where appearances and reality are mutable. Shweta Narayan's "Eyes of Carven Emerald" eloquently rewrites the history of Alexander the Great to include mechanical entities. Without a wrong note, all the stories in this anthology admirably fulfill Allen's promise of "beauty and strangeness." <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  On a Rogue Planet
  
  
  Anna Hackett
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  On a Rogue Planet
  
  
  Published by Anna Hackett
  
  
  Copyright 2014 by Anna Hackett
  
  
  Covers by [Croco Designs](http://www.crocodesigns.com/)
  
  
  Edits by [Tanya Saari](http://editortanya.blogspot.com.au/)
  
  
  ISBN: 978-0-9873740-8-0
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places and incidents
  are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  Any resemblance to actual persons, events or places is coincidental. No part
  of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or
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  Contents
  
  
  [What readers are saying about The Phoenix
  Adventures](index_split_003.html#id_Toc403734016)
  
  
  [Chapter One](index_split_005.html#id_Toc403734017)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](index_split_006.html#id_Toc403734018)
  
  
  [Chapter Three](index_split_007.html#id_Toc403734019)
  
  
  [Chapter Four](index_split_008.html#id_Toc403734020)
  
  
  [Chapter Five](index_split_009.html