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Karen Lord’s debut novel Redemption in Indigo is now out in the UK from Jo Fletcher/Quercus. More good news to follow!
K.M. Ferebee’s story “Thou Earth, Thou” from Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #27, has been selected for inclusion in Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction.
The Unreal and the Real: Outer Space, Inner Lands
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Ursula K. Le Guin Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands · 9781618730350 · trade cloth · $24 · 320pp | 9781618730374 · ebook · $14.95 “She is the reigning queen of…but immediately we come to a difficulty, for what is the fitting name of her kingdom? Or, in view of her abiding concern with the ambiguities of gender, her [...]
The Unreal and the Real: Where on Earth
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Ursula K. Le Guin The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Volume One: Where on Earth · 9781618730343 · trade cloth · $24 · 320pp | 9781618730367 · ebook · $14.95 Ursula K. Le Guin’s stories have shaped the way many readers see the world. By giving voice to the voiceless, hope to the [...]
Trafalgar
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Angélica Gorodischer 9781618730329 · trade paper · $16 · 256pp 9781618730336 · ebook · $9.95 When you run into Trafalgar Medrano at the Burgundy or the Jockey Club and he tells you about his latest intergalactic sales trip, don’t try to rush him. He likes to stretch things out over half a dozen coffees. No one knows [...]
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The Unreal and the Real: Where on Earth · Preorder
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Leave a CommentThe Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin Volume One: Where on Earth · 9781618730343 · trade cloth · $24 · 320pp | 9781618730367 · ebook · $14.95
Ursula K. Le Guin’s stories have shaped the way many readers see the world. By giving voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaking truth to power—all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor—she has proven herself one of our greatest writers.
This two-volume selection of Le Guin’s stories—as selected by the author—omits stories directly connected to novels. The first volume, Where on Earth, focuses on Le Guin’s interests in realism and magic realism and includes stories from The Compass Rose, Orsinian Tales, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Buffalo Gals, Searoad, and Unlocking the Air.
The Unreal and the Real is a much-anticipated event which will delight, amuse, and provoke.
The Unreal and the Real: Outer Space, Inner Lands · Preorder
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Leave a CommentVolume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands · 9781618730350 · trade cloth · $24 · 320pp | 9781618730374 · ebook · $14.95
“She is the reigning queen of…but immediately we come to a difficulty, for what is the fitting name of her kingdom? Or, in view of her abiding concern with the ambiguities of gender, her queendom, or perhaps—considering how she likes to mix and match—her quinkdom? Or may she more properly be said to have not one such realm, but two?”
—Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books
Ursula K. Le Guin’s nonrealistic stories which have shaped the way many readers see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power—all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor.
This two-volume selection of Le Guin’s stories—as selected by the author—omits stories directly connected to novels. The second volume, Outer Space, Inner Lands, focuses on Le Guin’s stories of the fantastic such as “The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas” and “The Matter of Seggri” and includes stories from The Compass Rose, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Buffalo Gals, Fisherman of the Inland Sea, The Birthday of the World, and Changing Planes.
The Unreal and the Real is a much-anticipated event which will delight, amuse, and provoke.
Earth and Air · Preorder
by Peter Dickinson
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9781618730381 · trade paper · $14.95
9781618730589 · ebook· $9.95
In Dickinson’s stories, changelings, gryphons, and gods get in the way of the rest of us who are struggling to find someone to fall in love with, something interesting to do, somewhere to run to. They are smart, funny, provocative but even as they float the reader away on a cloud of myth, they remain firmly grounded.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Earth
Troll Blood
Ridiki
Air
Wizand
Talaria
Scops
Trafalgar · Preorder
by Angélica Gorodischer
Leave a Comment9781618730329 · trade paper · $16 · 256pp
9781618730336 · ebook · $9.95
When you run into Trafalgar Medrano at the Burgundy or the Jockey Club and he tells you about his latest intergalactic sales trip, don’t try to rush him. He likes to stretch things out over half a dozen coffees. No one knows whether he actually travels to the stars, but he’s the best storyteller around, so why doubt him?
Table of Contents
By the Light of the Chaste Electronic Moon
The Sense of the Circle
Of Navigators
The Best Day of the Year
The González Family’s Fight for a Better World
–Interval with my Aunts
Trafalgar and Josefina
–End of the Interval
Mr. Chaos
Constancia
Strelitzias, Lagerstroemias, and Gypsophila
Trafalgar and I
Death of a Unicorn · Preorder
by Peter Dickinson
Leave a Commenttrade paper · $16 · 9781618730404 | ebook · $9.95 · 9781618730411
For bestselling author Lady Margaret, the past is no longer a pleasant memory. Her first lover’s mysterious death and the seeming inevitability of her inheriting the family’s stately home are cast in new light by secrets unwillingly revisited in Dickinson’s wonderful novel of family and friends, work and duty, and above all, love.
Death of a Unicorn is the first in a series of reprints of Peter Dickinson’s mysteries from Small Beer Press. This classic British mystery will win fans currently engrossed in Downton Abbey.
Peter Dickinson OBE has twice received the Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger as well as the Guardian Award and Whitbread Prize. His latest book is Earth and Air: Tales of Elemental Spirits (Big Mouth House). He lives in England and is married to the novelist Robin McKinley.
Errantry: Strange Stories · Preorder
by Elizabeth Hand
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No one is innocent, no one unexamined in Shirley Jackson award-winning author Elizabeth Hand’s new collection of stories. From the mysterious people next door to the odd guy in the next office over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable dreams that surely can never come true.
Table of Contents (not final)
Winter’s Wife
The Return of the Fire Witch
Hungerford Bridge
The Far Shore
The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon
Near Zennor
Summerteeth
Errantry
A Stranger in Olondria · Preorder
by Sofia Samatar
Leave a CommentAugust 2012 · 978-1-931520-76-8 / 978-1-931520-77-5 · 320 pp · trade paperback / ebook
Jevick, the pepper merchant’s son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home—but which his mother calls the Ghost Country. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick’s life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. Just as he revels in Olondria’s Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl.
In desperation, Jevick seeks the aid of Olondrian priests and quickly becomes a pawn in the struggle between the empire’s two most powerful cults. Even as the country shimmers on the cusp of war, he must face his ghost and learn her story before he has any chance of freeing himself by setting her free: an ordeal that challenges his understanding of art and life, home and exile, and the limits of that most seductive of necromancies, reading.
A Stranger in Olondria was written while the author taught in South Sudan. It is a rich and heady brew which pulls the reader in deeper and still deeper with twists and turns that hearken back to the Gormenghast while being as immersive as George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones.
Advance Praise
“This debut novel is mesmerizing—a sustained and dreamy enchantment. A Stranger in Olondria reminds both Samatar’s characters and her readers of the way stories make us long for far-away, even imaginary, places and how they also bring us home again.”
—Karen Joy Fowler
“Gorgeous writing, beautiful and sensual and so precise—a Proustian ghost story.”
—Paul Witcover
“Imagine an inlaid cabinet, its drawers within drawers filled with spices, roses, amulets, bright cities, bones, and shadows. Sofia Samatar is a merchant of wonders, and her A Stranger in Olondria is a bookshop of dreams.”
—Greer Gilman
“Thoroughly engaging and thoroughly original. A story of ghosts and books, treachery and mystery, ingeniously conceived and beautifully written. One of the best fantasy novels I’ve read in recent years.”
—Jeffrey Ford
Listen to Sofia read a couple of her poems on Stone Telling: “Girl Hours” · “The Sand Diviner”
Sofia Samatar is an American of Somali and Swiss German Mennonite background. She wrote A Stranger in Olondria in Yambio, South Sudan, where she worked as an English teacher. She has worked in Egypt and is pursuing a PhD in African languages and literature at the University of Madison, Wisconsin.
The Shimmers in The Night · Preorder
by Lydia Millet
Leave a CommentSummer 2012 · 978-1-931520-78-2 · trade cloth / ebook · $16.95 · 295 pp
Cara’s mother is still missing. When her brother Jax texts her from “smart kid’s boot camp” in Boston, Cara and her two best friends go to the rescue. But the camp is a front for Cara’s mother’s organization who are fighting against a force who wants to make the planet over in its own image, which will leave no space for anything else, animal, insect, or human.
Second in the Dissenters series following The Fires Beneath the Sea.
Lydia Millet is the author of Love in Infant Monkeys and Ghost Lights. She works at an endangered-species protection group. The Shimmers in the Night is the second book in the Dissenters series after The Fires Beneath the Sea.
At the Mouth of the River of Bees · Preorder
by Kij Johnson
1 CommentAugust 14th, 2012 · trade paperback: 9781931520805 · ebook: 9781931520812
A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: Johnson’s stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running and her latest story, “The Man Who Bridged the Mist” is a Nebula finalist.
Johnson’s stories range from historical Japan (Sturgeon award winner “Fox Magic”) to metafictional explorations of story structure (“Story Kit”). Nebula award winners “Spar” and “Ponies” are perhaps most shocking and captivating, but each of the seventeen stories here is a highlight selected from Johnson’s more than two decades of work.
These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and The Secret History of Fantasy.
At the Mouth of the River of Bees is one of the most anticipated debut science fiction short story collections in recent years.
Table of Contents
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
The Horse Raiders
Spar
Fox Magic
Names for Water
Schrodinger’s Cathouse
My Wife Reincarnated as a Solitaire
Chenting, in the Land of the Dead
The Bitey Cat
The Empress Jingu Fishes
Wolf Trapping
The Man Who Bridged the Mist
Ponies
The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles
The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change
Kij Johnson‘s stories have won the Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards. She has taught writing; worked at Tor, Dark Horse, Wizards of the Coast, and Microsoft; worked as a radio announcer; run bookstores; and waitressed in a strip bar.
Was · Preorder
by Geoff Ryman
Leave a CommentTrade paper/ebook · 9781931520737/9781931520386 · 320 pp · Postponed
“A mythic meditation on the enduring power of fantasy and art and on the loss of innocence, both the innocence of childhood lost to the cruel realities of the grown-up world and the innocence of a nation lost to the cruelties of history. . . . A moving lament for lost childhoods and an eloquent tribute to the enduring power of art.”
—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
