Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
"Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, originally published in the November 1987 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and collected in Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences (1987).[1] The title is borrowed from the song "Buffalo Gals" where the first line of the chorus is "Buffalo gals, won't you come out tonight?"
| "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction |
| Publication | |
| Publisher | The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| Publication date | November 1987 |
It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the World Fantasy Award—Novella in 1988, and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the Theodore Sturgeon Award.[2]
It was re-published in 1994 by Pomegranate Artbooks with illustrations provided by Susan Seddon Boulet.
Plot summary
A lost child tumbles into the confusing world of Southwestern U.S. desert folklore and lives for a while with the trickster Coyote.
References
- "Bibliography: Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight". isfdb.org. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
- Locus Index to SF Awards Archived August 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database