If Lions Could Speak and Other Stories

Paul Park. Borgo Press, $14.99 (196pp) ISBN 978-1-58715-508-6

SF author Paul Park (Coelestis, etc.) deftly explores cultural and psychological themes in his first collection of short fiction, If Lions Could Speak and Other Stories. Kim Stanley Robinson, Terry Bisson and Gene Wolfe, among others, provide testimonials to the quality of Park's prose.

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