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    Illyria, My Love
    Illyria, My Love
    Illyria, My Love
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    Illyria, My Love

    By Lisa Mason

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    From the extinguished HomeWorld, the Settlers traveled across the stars to NewWorld with hopes of starting over again.

    In the war-torn nation of Illyria, Maya just wants to grow vegetables and live in peace. But she has a dark secret she can never reveal, especially to her beloved Yuri.

    Written in the tradition of Fritz Leiber’s classic, “The Man Who Never Grew Young,” and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow, uniquely told from a woman’s point of view. The story’s title is an homage to the 1959 film by Alain Resnais, “Hiroshima, Mon Amour.”

    The ebook includes an Afterword.

    From the author of Summer of Love (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book); The Gilded Age (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book), Arachne (A Locus Bestseller), Celestial Girl (A Lily Modjeska Mystery), The Garden of Abracadabra; and Strange Ladies: 7 Stories.

    Praise for Books by Lisa Mason

    Strange Ladies: 7 Stories

    “Offers everything you could possibly want, from more traditional science fiction and fantasy tropes to thought-provoking explorations of gender issues and pleasing postmodern humor...This is a must-read collection.”

    —The San Francisco Review of Books

    Summer of Love, A Time Travel
    A Philip K. Dick Award Finalist
    A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of the Year

    “Remarkable . . . the intellect on display is clear-sighted, witty, and wise.”
    —Locus, The Trade Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy

    The Gilded Age, A Time Travel
    A New York Times Notable Book
    A New York Public Library Recommended Book

    “A winning mixture of intelligence and passion.”
    —The New York Times Book Review

    Arachne
    A Locus Bestseller

    “Powerful . . . Entertaining . . . Imaginative.”
    —People Magazine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLisa Mason
    Release dateSep 16, 2016
    ISBN9781370370269
    Illyria, My Love
    Author

    Lisa Mason

    Lisa Mason is the author of eleven novels, including Summer of Love (Bantam), a San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book and Philip K. Dick Award finalist, and The Golden Nineties (Bantam), a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book.Her most recent speculative novel is CHROME.Mason published her first story, “Arachne,” in Omni and has since published short fiction in magazines and anthologies worldwide, including Omni, Full Spectrum, Universe, Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Unique, Transcendental Tales, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Immortal Unicorn, Tales of the Impossible, Desire Burn, Fantastic Alice, The Shimmering Door, Hayakawa Science Fiction Magazine, Unter Die Haut, and others. Her thirty-two stories and novelettes have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.Mason’s story, “Tomorrow’s Child,” first published in Omni Magazine, is in active development at Universal Studios.Lisa Mason lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband, the renowned artist and jeweler Tom Robinson. Visit her on the web at Lisa Mason’s Official Website, follow her Official Blog, follow her on Twitter @lisaSmason, or e-mail her at LisaSMason@aol.com.

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      Illyria, My Love - Lisa Mason

      Illyria, My Love

      Lisa Mason

      From the extinguished HomeWorld, the Settlers traveled across the stars to NewWorld with hopes of starting over again. In the war-torn nation of Illyria, Maya just wants to grow vegetables and live in peace. But she has a dark secret she can never reveal, especially to her beloved Yuri.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Copyright 2016 by Lisa Mason.

      Cover collage, interior art, and logo copyright 2016 by Tom Robinson.

      All rights reserved.

      PUBLISHING HISTORY

      Bast Books ebook edition published September 2016.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval, without permission in writing from the publisher.

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting my hard work.

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      Thank you for your readership! Visit me at my Official Web Site for more about my books, screenplays, and stories. Enjoy!

      Lisa Mason

      Table of Contents

      Praise for Books by Lisa Mason

      Illyria, My Love

      About the Author

      Books by Lisa Mason

      Praise for Books by Lisa Mason

      CHROME

      An excellent semi-noir full-on SF work by a terrific author. . . .a science-fiction homage, in part, to the noir books and movies of the forties and fifties, only brought forth into a future time a quarter-millennium from now. . . a fully-realized society.

      —Amazing Stories.com

      So Walter Mosley reread Animal Farm and The Island of Dr. Moreau and says to himself, Oh, yes indeed, I've got a terrific idea for my next best seller. But! Lisa says, Hold on, hot stuff. You're too late. Chrome is already on the streets. Haha!

      Wow! I just tore through Chrome. So much fun. Oh, I guess I should take a time-out to say that it was very well-written too, but I was enjoying the characters and the story so much that the superb writing simply did its job and I had to consciously reflect to notice the excellent and clever construction and reveals. Isn't that the definition of good writing?"

      —Reader Review

      Summer of Love, A Time Travel

      A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of the Year

      A Philip K. Dick Award Finalist

      "Remarkable. . . .a whole array of beautifully portrayed characters along the spectrum from

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