With In the Palace of Repose, her debut collection of mostlyunpublished work, Holly Phillips accomplished the improbable. The unknownCanadian author received critical acclaim and numerous honors including the 2006Sunburst Award and nominations for the World Fantasy and Crawford Awards. Heraccomplished prose sang with a unique voice, seamlessly blending emotion,insight, and craft. Now, At the Edge of Waking presents her latest taleswritten with even more depth and range-including a new, never-published story.Portraying human reaction to dire change or extreme circumstance, combining thereal intruded upon by the fantastic or the fantastic grounded in reality,Phillips describes the world as it is, as it may be, as something impossible yetentirely acceptable, enthralling the reader with her words.