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King of Morning, Queen of Day is an expanded version of the short story by the same name in Empire Dreams. It is really a trilogy of linked novellas and a short interlude (the stort story in Empire Dreams forms the base for the first novella). They are held together by the protagtonist who in each of them is a young Irish girl. The stories are set in different times and the prose uses other writers of the respective periods as models. The first part uses early science fiction writers and W. B. Yeats and is written in the form of diary entries, notes, etc. The second part is a mixture of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce. The interlude is inspired by Molly's monologue in James Joyce's Ulysses and the third part is based on contemporary media. This novel won the 1992 Philip K. Dick Award for best original SF paperback. An extract from the novel was published in Spectra: A Galaxy of Bestsellers, edited by Anonymous. Bantam Spectra, 1991. Editions
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