From Publishers Weekly
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's Scarborough Faire and Other Stories collects nine stories by this Nebula Award-winning author (The Healer's War), including "Mummies of the Motorway," "Worse Than the Curse" and "A Rare Breed." Though all were written for theme anthologies, each shares another inspiration, as the author explains in her introduction. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Five Star again rescues another genre author's worthy stories from oblivion. For cat lovers such as Scarborough herself, "Final Vows," "Mu Mao and the Court Oracle," and "Boon Companions" will make up the heart of the book. Variety being, however, Scarborough's spice of choice, the town bearing her name is the heart of "Mummies of the Motorway" as well as the title story. "The Invisible Woman's Clever Disguise" and "Worse Than the Curse" address obesity with a light touch seldom found in treatments of a subject about which humor sometimes seems to be un-PC. "A Rare Breed" presents unicorns in the author's Pacific Northwest homeland, and "Whirlwinds" draws on her experience of the Southwest. "Long Time Coming Home" reflects Scarborough's status as female Vietnam vet (an in-country nurse) and echoes some themes of her Nebula winner, The Healer's War (1988). "Don't Go Out in Holy Underwear . . ." resides at the other end of the scale of sobriety. Proof of Scarborough's versatility as well as skill, and plenty of it. Roland Green
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