Tales of Old Gods and New - Kate MacLeod

'Tales of Old Gods and New' collects ten stories from fantasy and science fiction writer Kate MacLeod: the high fantasy murder mystery 'Impostor Apparition', the western weird tale 'Unsafe, Unsound', the pseudo-Egyptian fantasy 'Tear of a Sphinx', the early Bronze Age fantasy 'Changing Tides', 'In the Waste Places', the sequel to 'Oil Fire'; the science fiction story 'Taren and Keui', tale of two alien beings finding a way out of a zero sum game; the dark fantasy tale 'The Story for the Letters', about a little girl and an ancient evil; the science fiction story 'AI: Aesir Intelligence', where the sole survivor of a shuttle crash stays alive on a hostile world with the guidance of some unconventional babysitters; the science fiction story 'Upon the Lonesome Wild' about a woman meant to be the matriarch of a far reaching clan on a newly discovered world who instead finds herself alone on a dying one; and the science fiction novelette 'The Inscrutable Visages of the Sowmyatha' where a young officer finds it easier to communicate with a rocklike alien race than her human teammates.