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Joan Aiken’s The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories is highlighted by the Los Angeles Times as one of the books of the summer.
Geoff Ryman’s Was has a cover! Next up: Unconquered Countries.
The Shimmers in The Night
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Lydia Millet Summer 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 [...]
An A–Z of the Fantastic City
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Hal Duncan Published in limited signed and numbered hardcover and perfectbound trade paperback editions.
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
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Kij Johnson August 14th, 2012 · trade paperback / ebook · 9781931520805 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. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in [...]
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by Elizabeth Hand
Leave a Commenttrade paper · 9781618730305 / ebook ·
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 CommentJune 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. 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. But 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. Yet even as the country simmers on the cusp of war, he must face his ghost and learn her story before he has any chance of becoming free by setting her free: an ordeal that challenges his understanding of art and life, home and exile, and the limits of that seductive necromancy, reading.
A Stranger in Olondria is a skillful and immersive debut fantasy novel that pulls the reader in deeper and deeper with twists and turns reminiscent of George R. R. Martin and Joe Hill.
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.
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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.
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.
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by Kij Johnson
Leave a CommentAugust 14th, 2012 · trade paperback / ebook · 9781931520805
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.
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.
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 Conqueror
Wolf Trapping Twilight Zone
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, and Microsoft; worked as a radio announcer; run bookstores; and waitressed in a strip bar.
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by Nancy Kress
Leave a CommentApril 2012 · trade paper / ebook · 978-1-931520-45-4 · $16.00 · 300 pp.
Nine new stories from a long-time star of the science fiction field including the Hugo Award winner “The Erdmann Nexus” and the caper-inspired Nebula Award winning title story “Fountain of Age.”
Kress unpacks the future the way DNA investigators unravelled the double helix: one gene at a time. In many of these stories gene sculpting is illegal yet commonplace and the effects range between slow catastrophe (“End Game”), cosmic (“First Rites”), and tragic (“Safeguard”). Then there’s the morning when Rochester disappears and Jenny has to rely on “The Kindness of Strangers.” There’s Jill, who is kidnapped by aliens and trying to learn the “Laws of Survival.” And there’s Hope, whose Grandma is regretting the world built “By Fools Like Me.”
“End Game” & “The Kindness of Strangers” are available as podcasts and many of these stories have been reprinted in The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and Best of the Web.
Table of Contents
The Erdmann Nexus
The Kindness of Strangers
By Fools Like Me
First Rites
End Game
Images of Anna
Laws of Survival
Safeguard
Fountain of Age
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by Geoff Ryman
Leave a CommentTrade paper/ebook · 9781931520737/9781931520386 · 320 pp · November 29, 2011
“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
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by Hal Duncan
3 CommentsFebruary 2012 · signed, numbered limited hardcover · trade paper (978-1-61873-020-6) · ebook (978-1-61873-021-3)
No. 10 in the Small Beer Press chapbook series is An A-Z of the Fantastic City. Compiled and Arranged by Hal Duncan and illustrated by Eric Schaller, it also features an introduction by noted academic Henry V. Duncan. Read more