Artificial Things: Karen Joy FowlerA short story volume, including: The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things; The Poplar Street Study a blackly comedic account of an alien invasion; Face Value; The Dragon's Head; The War of the Roses; Contention; Recalling Cinderella; Other Planes; The Bog People; Wild Boys (Variations on a Theme); The View From Venus; Praxis a story about a theatre wherein the real and the unreal collide. The Gate ofGhosts a child journeys to a strange and deadly world.