A Tale of Truths - by Berit Ellingsen (Paperback)

About the Book

"A dissident scientist, her granddaughter, and an elf who created himself from thought journey to a tiered city built in a giant vertical conch. Here, they seek an audience at the top in order to convince them that their planet orbits its star instead of the other way around. But the road to paradigm shift is never easy--and rarely straightforward--and reveals many truths of its own."--Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

A dissident scientist, her granddaughter, and an elf who created himself from thought journey to a tiered city built in a giant vertical conch. Here, they seek an audience at the top in order to convince them that their planet orbits its star instead of the other way around. But the road to paradigm shift is never easy-and rarely straightforward-and reveals many truths of its own.

Review Quotes

"A Tale of Truths reads like a
campfire tale, a bedtime story adventure, a road trip yarn spun to
wile the hours. It begins with an elf shaped from the sea shore, and
quickly fills with extraordinary thieves, a cat that is horses, and a
journey by hearse through a sentient forest. What we have here is
quirky unpredictable playfulness let to run rampant."

--C.
S. E. Cooney

Berit Ellingsen's A Tale of
Truths is a seamless and beguiling act of world-building as
storytelling, a joyous celebration of humanity's addiction to both
rational and magical reasons for the worlds we perceive. A
delightfully curious fantasy, in the truest sense.

--Indra Das

About the Author

Berit Ellingsen is the author of three novels, Now We Can See The Moon (Snuggly Books 2018), Not Dark Yet (Two Dollar Radio 2015), and Une ville vide (PublieMonde 2014), a collection of short stories, Beneath the Liquid Skin (Queen's Ferry Press), and a mini-collection of dark fairytales, Vessel and Solsvart (Snuggly Books 2017). Her work has been published in W.W. Norton's Flash Fiction International, SmokeLong Quarterly, Unstuck, Litro, Lightspeed, and other places, and it has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the British Science Fiction Association Award. Berit is a member of the Norwegian Authors' Union.