Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women\'s College. ―
Pamela Sargent, winner of the Nebula Award.
A remarkable accomplishment that repays rereading.
Those familiar with Lovecraft\'s work will travel through a fantasy landscape infused with Lovecraftian images viewed from another perspective, but even readers unfamiliar with his work will be enthralled by Vellitt\'s quest.
Vellitt\'s quest to find a former student who may be the only person who can save her community takes her through a world governed by a seemingly arbitrary dream logic in which she occasionally glimpses an underlying but mysterious order, a world ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares.
Lovecraft tale and a profound reflection on a woman\'s life.
Kij Johnson\'s haunting novella The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is both a commentary on a classic H.
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When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.
Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women\'s College
