The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson[]
Published by Tor.com Publishing, August 2016
Reviews: Publisher's Weekly (starred), Tor.com, The Illustrated Page, All About Books
Word Count: approx. 36,000 words
Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College, in the heart of the Dreamlands. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.
But the journey sends her across a world ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares—and into her own mysterious past, where some secrets were never meant to surface…