Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

I always figure there are novels and short stories, and in those, I'm God. No one tells me what to do. I don't have to lose a page, or cut anything, it's just mine. Then there are other things where you're up against realities.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.