Questionable Practices · Preorder

by Eileen Gunn

March 2014 | paper · 9781618730756 · $16.00 | ebook · 9781618730763 · $9.95

Stories from Eileen Gunn are always a cause for celebration. Where will she lead us? “Up the Fire Road” to a slightly alternate world. Four stories into steampunk’s heart. Into the golem’s heart. Yet never where we might expect.

Reviews for Eileen Gunn’s stories:

“Without Eileen Gunn, life as we know it would be so dull we wouldn’t recognize it. Among the five or six North Americans currently able to write short stories, she has not written anywhere near enough.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin Read more

The Seventh Raven · Preorder

by Peter Dickinson

March 2014 · paper · $12 · 9781618730282 | ebook · 9781618730299

Phoenix Award Winner from the Children’s Literature Association
“Going Round by the Byways” (pdf). Acceptance Speech for the Phoenix Award, Buffalo, New York, June 8, 2001

Too old to take part in the annual children’s opera, seventeen-year-old Doll Jacobs makes a place for herself as a junior member of the “opera mafia” who run the show. There are always exactly one hundred children’s roles, but an exception is made for Juan O’Grady, the son of the ambassador from a small South American country, Matteo.

When Mattean terrorists attempt to kidnap him, Juan is hidden amongst the other children and a tense standoff unfolds as the terrorists hold the cast and crew hostage and search for him. Dickinson’s philosophical investigation of whether we can defend “art for art’s sake” is also a taut thriller that will hold readers of all ages to the very end.

“This steady, sober hostage story is not quite a thriller . . . but anyone . . . can be engaged by the argument and enveloped in Dickinson’s carefully textured citadel.”—Kirkus Reviews  Read more

Emma Tupper’s Diary · Preorder

by Peter Dickinson

February 2014 · trade paper · $12 · 978-1-61873-063-3 | ebook · $9.95 · 978-1-61873-064-0

Emma is spending the summer with her Scottish cousins—who are wonderful material for her attempt to win the School Prize for most interesting holiday diary. The cousins, lofty Andy, reserved Fiona, and fierce Roddy, and “some sort of looker-after person called Miss Newcombe” are experimenting with their grandfather’s dilapidated old mini-submarine to see if they can find a monster in the family loch.

Emma Tupper’s Diary is a sometimes terrifying, sometimes broadly hilarious (Chapter 3: “I am beginning to understand about the Scots,” wrote Emma. “And why they murdered each other so much.”) adventure novel in the spirit of From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and I Capture the Castle.

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Was · Preorder

by Geoff Ryman

Trade paper · 9781931520737 | ebook · 9781931520386 · 320 pp · New Reader Group Guide · Ebook available. Print edition 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

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