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Mermaids & Sea Creatures

Water

Tales of Elemental Spirits

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  • 2002 first published
  • 272 pages
  • 9 editions
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Water is a 2002 mermaid fiction story collection by Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson. Key subjects include Water, mermaids, Ocean and Mermen.

19 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 9 editions.

It runs to roughly 272 pages — 4–5 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Water

What magical beings inhabit earth’s waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar’s Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson transform the simple element of water into something very powerful indeed.
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Themes, setting & tropes

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Subjects

  • Water
  • Mermaids in fiction
  • Ocean in fiction
  • Mermen in fiction
  • American Short stories
  • Mermaids
  • Water in fiction
  • English Short stories
  • Mythical animals in fiction
  • Ocean
  • Mermen
  • Mythical Animals
  • Sea stories
  • English Young adult fiction
  • English Fantasy fiction
  • Collections & anthologies fantasy

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Quick answers

Who wrote Water?

Water was written by Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson and first published in 2002.

What genre is Water?

It is usually shelved as Mermaids & Sea Creatures.

How long is Water?

The median edition has 272 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Water?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Curse of Camp Cold Lake, The Tail of Emily Windsnap (Emily Windsnap #1) and The Blob That Ate Everyone.

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