Centuries Ago and Very Fast (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781933500256)

Centuries Ago and Very Fast is a collection of linked stories by Rebecca Ore, author of Gaias Toys, Times Child, Slow Funeral, and other well-received novels. The stories in this collection relate tales from the life of Vel, a gay immortal born in the Paleolithic who jumps time at will. We encounter him hunting mammoths, playing with reindeer tripping on hallucinogenic mushrooms, negotiating each successive wave of invaders to keep his family and its land intact, living as the minor god of a spring, witnessing the hanging of mollies in seventeenth-century London as well as the Stonewall riots in twentieth-century New York City. Vel has had more lovers than he can remember and is sometimes tempted to flirt with death. Centuries Ago and Very Fast offers fascinating, often erotic glimpses of the life of a man who has just about seen it all.

Author: Rebecca Ore
ISBN-10: 1933500255
ISBN-13: 9781933500256
Publisher: Aqueduct Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2009
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.60d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Award: Spectrum Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Asimov's Science Fiction 03/01/2010 pg. 108