Through Soft Air
{{Short description|Short story collection by Lee Battersby}}
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| publisher = Prime Books
| release_date = 2006
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| pages = 280 pp.
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Through Soft Air is the first short story collection from Australian speculative fiction writer Lee Battersby. Printed in 2006, it was published by US Publisher Prime Books.{{cite web|title= Through Soft Air by Lee Battersby|publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?277368|access-date= 3 July 2024}}
The cover art is by Gary Nurrish.
Stories
The collection contains the following stories:
- Father Muerte & the Theft
- Silk
- Carrying the God
- Pass the Parcel
- Through the Window Merrilee Dances
- Elyse (previously unpublished)
- The Divergence Tree
- Jaracara's Kiss (previously unpublished)
- The Hobbyist
- Mikal (previously unpublished)
- Letters to Josie
- A Stone to Mark My Passing
- Vortle
- Ecdysis
- A Very Good Lawyer
- Goodfellow
- Stalag Hollywood (previously unpublished)
- Brillig
- His Calliope(previously unpublished)
- Father Renoir's Hands (previously unpublished)
- Through Soft Air
- Dark Ages (previously unpublished)
- Tales of Nireym
- Father Muerte & the Rain
- Pater Familias
Critical reception
Writing for the Australian Specific in focus website Nicole Murphy noted: that there were stories she felt were "undone", and said that was "A shame, because the idea of the book is terrific."{{cite web|title="Through Soft Air" |publisher= ASif, July 2006 |url=http://www.asif.dreamhosters.com/doku.php?id=through_soft_air|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070302042635/http://www.asif.dreamhosters.com/doku.php?id=through_soft_air |access-date= 3 July 2024|archive-date= 2 March 2007 }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.battersby.com.au/ Lee Battersby's home page]
- [http://www.primebooks.net/ Prime Books]
- [http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com/2006/05/review-through-soft-air.html Review from Horrorscope]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070302042635/http://www.asif.dreamhosters.com/doku.php?id=through_soft_air Reviews from Ticonderoga Online]
Category:2006 short story collections
Category:Australian short story collections
Category:Horror short story collections
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