A Distant Soil #3

Colleen Doran's *A Distant Soil Volume III: The Aria* collects the series in a beautifully produced 2001 trade paperback, praised by *The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror* as a blend of "Arthurian Apocrypha, contemporary psi-powers and distant future space fantasy." The Spectrum Award–nominated cover, painted by Doran herself, centers on a white-haired figure radiating a golden halo as she reaches outward dramatically, flanked by a second white-haired woman in an elaborate rose-pink beaded gown and a third figure in deep green looking on from a lush, crystal-studded garden setting. It's a lush, otherworldly tableau that perfectly reflects the ambitious, genre-spanning imagination driving this series.