Judith L. Tabron

Mind-engulfing stories of stolen human hearts, millenial arguments with God, and DNA-testing for evil.Grab a seat on this ride through dragons and detectives, nerve-wracking jewelry and secret doors.From the speculative fiction writer Publishers Weekly called "Bradburyesque", Writers of the Future-winner Judith L. Tabron, This Side of an Icy Horizon is your easy key to an uneasy exploration of our innermost desires, which are never what you expect them to be."Judith Tabron's This Side of an Icy Horizon is a thought-provoking collection of short tales to stretch your mind, to race your pulse and tug at your emotions. My only complaint is that there's not more..." - David Sakmyster, author of The Pharos Objective and Blindspots

How can we read literatures from other cultures? The metaphors of fractal geometry can help us think about the complexity of the cultural situation of a text or an author." Postcolonial Literature from Three Continents" identifies four primary themes common to postcolonial texts - technology, memory, language, and geography - and examines them in relationship to four texts from Nigeria, the United States, and Australia so that we see both the colonized and colonizing positions of these works. The quartet of texts are Amos Tutuola's "The Palm-Wine Drinkard," H. D.'s "Helen in Egypt," Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," and Patrick White's "Voss."