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Cold

A. S. Byatt

First published 1998
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Synopsis

A princess discovers she's in her element when it's freezing cold. She then learns that an ancestral grandmother had been known as the icewoman. Oddly, the princess picks a prince from the desert to be her husband. When he discovers how dependent his wife was on cold he constructs a palace for her high in the mountains of his kingdom.

Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1999 World Fantasy Award Best Novella Nominee/Finalist

Publications (9)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1998 Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice Chatto & Windus Collection 113
November 1998 Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice Chatto & Windus Collection 113
May 1999 Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice Random House Collection 113
August 1999 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press Anthology 462
August 1999 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 462
September 1999 The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection St. Martin's Press / SFBC Anthology 462
November 1999 Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice Vintage (UK) Collection
2000 Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice Vintage Books Collection 113
November 2021 Medusa's Ankles: Selected Stories Alfred A. Knopf Collection |11