A new Collection from Award-winning Writer Marie Brennan THE ATLAS TO ANYWHERE

We need #ShortStories & anthologies on our e-readers! Book View Cafe is delighted to offer a new collection by award-winning author Marie Brennan, THE ATLAS OF ANYWHERE.

*Seek out extraordinary lands . . .*

In THE ATLAS OF ANYWHERE, you'll find strange guardians overseeing fate-bound duels. A priceless stone on a journey toward a bloody destiny. A thief determined to steal a worthless treasure. In her second collection of worlds-spanning fantasy, award-winning author Marie Brennan takes you back to the world of her famed heroine Lady Trent, through the land of her Hugo Award-nominated poem “A War of Words,” and onward to seven other fantastical realms, filled with pirates, demigods, and murderous creatures of winter’s cold night.

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Yes, there are very dangerous fungi. One or two of them may have been tomb curses....

Anyone who watches certain films knows that much was made in the 1920s in gossip and the print press of the Pharaoh's or Mummy's curse, when many people died after opening King Tut's tomb.

Theories have been discussed for years--not a curse, surely, but what else in those ancient sealed chambers could have slowly killed any who entered? (And what if the ancient Egyptians intentionally left mold as a trap for grave robbers? That wasn't asked in these articles--but what if?)

This happened again in the early 1970s, when ten of twelve conservationists who entered a Polish King's tomb died weeks or months later. The same fungus was found in Casimir IV Jagiellon's tomb.

That pernicious something could have been the fungal mold Aspergillus flavus.

https://bigthink.com/the-past/mummys-curse-fungus-mold-aspergillus/

Now, it turns out this fungus may have attributes that will be an excellent treatment for some cancers.

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-toxic-ancient-tomb-fungus-anti.html

The difference between first and second generation antihistamines.

Just in case you wondered. I needed info, so you get to share it.

https://www.webmd.com/allergies/difference-between-first-generation-antihistamines-second-generation-antihistamines