- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Running Press (May 5 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786720808
- ISBN-13: 978-0786720804
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #977,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
In this groundbreaking collection Cecilia Tan (Black Feathers-15,000 copies sold) blurs definitions of sexuality and redefines women's erotica. She delves deep into the world of dark fantasy in a powerful collection of stories that interweave the supernatural and science fiction with the fantasy of daydream; she brilliantly combines noir erotica with startling sensuality to shatter the physical and emotional boundaries of sex.
About the Author
Cecilia Tan writes about her many passions, from erotic fantasy to baseball. She is the author of Black Feathers and The Velderet, and has edited over forty anthologies for the publishing house she founded, Circlet Press. Her fiction has appeared in Ms. Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Best American Erotica, and many other places. Tan lives in Cambridge, MA.
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21 very solid pieces of fiction, July 17 2008
By TammyJo Eckhart "TammyJo Eckhart" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: White Flames: Erotic Dreams (Paperback)
I wouldn't even limit these stories under the genre or "erotica" myself because they are solid pieces of fantasy, science fiction, contemporary fiction and borderline horror stories. My favorites were: "Rite of Spring," "Halloween," "Bodies of Water," "Just Tell Me the Rules," "Balancing Act," "Storm Rider,"and "Gyndroid". There is no one sexual orientation focused on though maledom and femsub are the most numerous, even those are shown through a fresh lens.
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Thought-provoking too, Jan 29 2011
By Ken Schneyer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: White Flames: Erotic Dreams (Paperback)
The trouble with the term "erotica" is that it is used as a marketing device to describe everything from highly literary fiction to pornography. Generally speaking, readers who enjoy literary fiction don't enjoy pornography, and vice versa. When one reads a work of "erotica," therefore, one is always taking a certain risk. (I'll admit that the same thing is true in other genres -- "fantasy," for example, could mean anything from mind-bending mythology to sparkly vampires.)
Cecilia Tan's work is clearly serious fiction that is highly erotic. She is concerned with issues of identity, agency, power and responsibility. She cares for the long-term happiness of her characters. She has a larger agenda.
For example, "The Little Mermaid" has always been a potential venue for erotic exploration because of the tail vs. legs dichotomy. But in Tan's hands, it becomes a medidation on the fundamental elements of life, the primal need for connection and passion, and the inability to silence the voice of one's needs once they have been awakened.
Similarly the science fiction piece "Now", which could simply recount a sexual ritual, instead explores the dynamic of love that cannot be fulfilled, where sexuality serves as a temporary and ultimately incomplete substitute.
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Cecilia Tan's White Flames: Erotic Dreams, Jun 16 2008
By Lawrence Nelson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: White Flames: Erotic Dreams (Paperback)
Cecilia Tan is the best! I just loved the book. All the stories where great, but I have to say that I just loved "Dragon's Daughter" the best.
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