The Helix and the Hard Road

Overview:

  • Title: The Helix and the Hard Road
  • Author: Joan Slonczewski, Jo Walton
  • Year: 2013
  • ISBN-10: 9781619760417
  • Publisher: Aqueduct Press
  • Price: $12.00
  • Pages: [7]+95+[3]
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN
  • Notes:
    • Published in conjunction with the authors' appearance as guests of honor at WisCon 37.
    • Limited edition of 175 copies.
    • Photo on cover by McKenna. HIV RNA strand from Slonczewski. Design by Wilham, who presumably did the "helix twist" of the photo.
    • Date of publication as listed in Amazon, although it was released at WisCon the week before.
    • Not all of the poems by Jo Walton are genre. Her poems are divided by thematic sections:
      1. Love, Pain, and Death. pp. 31-41;
      2. Fairytales and Myths. pp. 43-59;
      3. Shakespeare. pp. 61-65;
      4. The News. pp. 67-71;
      5. Welcome, Weather, and Whimsy. pp. 73-83.
      Her "author biography" is also written as a 2 page poem, and hence is credited as such.