Short Stories: The Truth About Owls -Amal El-Mohtar & Shadow Tag- Raymond Khoury
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This is a Short Story "Book" Club that focuses on sci fi/fantasy and horror short stories or novelettes. This month we
are reading "The Truth About Owls" by Amal El-Mohtar and "Shadow Tag" by Raymond Khoury and Steve Berry.
Links to the stories:
The Truth About Owls by Amal El-Mohtar:
https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/the-truth-about-owls/ (and a link to the backstory about the writing of it: https://strangehorizons.com/fiction/introduction-to-the-truth-about-owls/)
Shadow Tag by Raymond Khoury and Steve Berry: https://raymondkhoury.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/12/Shadow-Tag.pdf
Amal El-Mohtar: is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, and criticism. Her stories and poems have appeared in magazines including Tor.com*, Fireside Fiction, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, Stone Telling, and Mythic Delirium; anthologies including The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories (2017), The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales* (2016), Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2014), and The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011); and in her own collection, The Honey Month (2010). She is co-author, with Max Gladstone, of the multiple award-winning This is How You Lose the Time War. Her articles and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, NPR Books and on Tor.com. She has been the New York Times's science fiction and fantasy columnist since February 2018 (from https://amalelmohtar.com/about/)
Raymond Khoury: is the New York Times and international bestselling author of eight novels: The Last Templar, The Sanctuary, The Sign, The Devil’s Elixir, Rasputin’s Shadow, The End Game, and his latest, Empire of Lies (aka The Ottoman Secret in the UK). Before writing novels, Raymond was an architect, then an investment banker, then a screenwriter, where his credits include the hit BBC series Spooks and Waking the Dead. His novel The Last Templar was based on an original screenplay he wrote ten years before the book was first published. His novels have been translated into 40 languages. (https://raymondkhoury.com/)