Cassandra Quebec: an artist who had shown the world her soul. At the height of her career she was the world's most celebrated artist, but then she announced her betrothal to minor laser-sculptor Nathaniel Maltravers. A year later she was dead. And now... her death has become a work of art.

Powerful and clever science fiction from the two times winner of the BSFA short story award.

"British writing with a deft, understated touch: wonderful"
-- New Scientist

"SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility"
-- Paul McAuley

"One of the very best of the new generation of British SF writers"
-- Vector

"Eric Brown has an enviable talent for writing stories which are the essence of modern science fiction and yet show a passionate concern for the human predicament and human values"
-- Bob Shaw