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Unbecoming The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 12 by Lesley Wheeler’ Boundaries & Bridges (ISBN: 978-1-61976-167-4) edited by Isabel Schechter & Michi Trota What if women gained uncanny power at middle age? (ISBN: 978-1-61976-191-9) In Unbecoming, Cyn’s family is shattering and she is at war with her own body. Then, when her best friend andThis Tiptree/Otherwise collection includes Award-winningessays from first-time authors and glamorous stranger takes her place—Fee Ellis, a Welsh WisCon attendees and former Guests of Honor, fans flies off on a mysterious faculty exchange program, a poet who makes it all look easy. But it may be costly to less well-off, abled and disabled, white and POC, young welcome this charismatic outsider to their little college andeditors, old, cisparents het and and LGBTQ+ child-free, attendees, English affluent speakers and and town. Cyn’s best friend, meanwhile, communicates only Spanish speakers, and hopefully more than just these in ominous fragments. categories can capture. “A middle-aged college professor taps into her magical ability in the midst of personal and professional and thoughts about WisCon. Structural changes in the conventionTheir essays that cover break a wide down range barriers of experiences to attendance with (The Receptionist and Other Tales).… Wheeler’s prose and participation are important, and some of the ischaos gorgeous in this and excellent her characters feminist arefantasy marvelously from Wheeler essays recount the process and struggles of creating detailed.… Readers will be taken with this powerful space and programming for POC attendees, access for and deeply satisfying tale.” (Starred Review) disabled attendees, and affordability for all attendees. The words we use matter, as essays that talk about Publishers Weekly, April 2020 feminist terms, gendered language, and even the name “… Unbecoming is sage, funny, and warm, like a of the Tiptree/ (which is almost long conversation with your best friend about all the strange and wonderful things that have been happening to her lately. Lesley Wheeler’s writing is so withininextricably WisCon identified and beyond, with WisCon)as it spills demonstrate. out into the deft and magical that I’m convinced that she must have widerThe definition world—including of “community” online is spaces. also examined, both learned it from the fairies. This smart, beguiling debut casts a spell that readers won’t want to break.” from Isabel Schechter’s Introduction At WisCon, I’ve seen how both the thoughtful The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic implementation of boundaries and necessary breaking Emily Croy Barker, author of of them, can create space for connections to grow “…a delightful, beautifully written 21st century gothic novel set at a Virginia university and also in the and become bridges to deeper knowledge, greater borderlands between the literal and the metaphorical, understanding, and stronger communities. between the realistic and the fantastic. Like all […] universities, this one is a school for wizards and Running through all of these essays is a common conjurers. Professors offer portals to undiscovered thread of appreciation for WisCon’s community: for countries and enchanted lands. Portals lead to demons the challenges to their perceptions and assumptions, and horror and death too.” for the dedication and effort of WisCon’s volunteers, Will do Magic for the openness and empathy of attendees in for Small Change and The Master of Poisons conversations that aren’t always easy, but often Andrea Hairston, author of necessary.....

from Michi Trota’s Introduction

Forthcoming Raven Nothing by Som Paris (2020) Damned Pretty Things by Holly Wade Matter (2020) Goddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms by Hal Y. Zhang (2020) Disease by Sarah Tolmie (2020) For the Good of the Realm by Nancy Jane Moore (2021) Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin edited by R.B. Lemberg and Lisa M. Bradley (2021)

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Finalist for a Lambda SF award Vol. 72 — City of a Thousand Feelings by Anya Johanna DeNiro Vol. 69 — The Rampant: A Novella by Julie C. Day (ISBN: 978-1-61976-177-3) (ISBN: 978-1-61976-169-8) “Surreal and lyrical, if opaque, this profound fantasy “Equal parts playful and heartbreaking, this acceptance. An unnamed trans woman narrator apocalyptic novella offers one-of-a-kind answers meetsfrom DeNiro the fellow (Tyrannia) trans woman explores to whomthe struggle the book for is addressed, whose name changes over the course of Bareilles, both 16, have spent most of their lives enduringabout the theend nightmare of the world. of the Gillian never-ending Halkey and rapture. Emelia It’s been a decade since the ancient Sumerian gods the novel from Melody to Mystery to Mercy, when they descended on Indiana, promising that the chosen andboth 15 join years a ragtag of loneliness army of exiledpass before women the intent two women on people would ascend to Nibiru, but the terrifying reunite.storming Together the city thatthey excluded decide to them. sneak The back army into falls the entity called the Rampant—the last of the Evil city to steal the city’s blueprints and use them to build a new, inclusive home of their own.… seems to have missed the memo. Until he shows up, Messengers heralding the destruction of civilization— Publishers Weekly, November 2019 eating people. It’s up to Emelia and Gillian to descend the rapture can’t happen. Meanwhile, bored gods are to the Netherworld, using Gillian’s prophetic dreams Vol. 73 — Ancient Songs of Us as guidance, in hopes of liberating the Rampant so the judging can begin and the suffering can end.… This by Jean LeBlanc clever and surprisingly fun take on the rapture is the The poems in Ancient Songs of Us suggest that no perfect theological horror story.” song is “ancient,” that every story crosses time and transcends place to remind us what it means to be Publishers Weekly, Aug. 2019 human. Love, hatred, fury, longing, ennui, sadness— Finalist for a Bram Stoker Award these states of heart and mind in all their nuanced Vol. 70 — Makes a Monster by Octavia Cade hueso verflow from these poems. (ISBN: 978-1-61976-173-5) Vol. 74 — The Adventure of the Naked Guide monster—built from her life rather than her pen, born by Cynthia Ward outAll our of biography monsters insteadare mirrors. of blood—outlives And when Mary its Shelley’s mother, The third novella in the Blood Thirsty Agent series. that monster goes looking for a substitute. But all the The earth is hollow—a trackless primordial monster really knows of women is that women write, wilderness. It’s also the new front in the Great

daughter—must locate Britain’s missing vampire knowand so what the search mutilated for a things replacement can be madetakes fromit first ink to and slayer—herWar. Here, the own British mother. spy ThenLucy she’sHarker—Dracula’s separated from mirrors….Katherine Mansfield, and then to other women who her lover, the vampire spy Carmilla, and captured by Vol. 71 — Articulation Germany’s most brilliant scientist, the sinister Dr by Cesi Davidson dangerous opponents are on her own side. (ISBN: 978-1-61976-175-9) Krüger. Now, Agent Harker may discover her most “In these fanciful, often hilarious plays you will discover a fantastic variety of characters—familiar Vol. 75 — Sacred Summer by Cassandra Rose Clarke store and bet on horses, bananas and radishes, who In the empty halls of a house on the edge of the woods, discussnursery-rhyme their ill-fated figures destinies, who work birds in a who ninety-nine-cent sing songs a dancer faces the aftermath of a career-ending injury of unrequited love, time travelers who skip about from and subsequent divorce. Caribbean present-day to slavery-era Virginia, bunnies who meet in support groups. Twenty years earlier, on the land where her house would be built, two boys died violently and mysteriously while recording a music video for their band, leaving one survivor. “Many of the plays will have you laughing out loud. But they also explore serious issues and wrenching Something sleeps in the woods beyond the house, and troubles. Little Bo Peep finds her marriage destroyed son/daughter.by the gambling A habitsyoung ofman Big dreams Man Blue. of different A bunny wake.… when the dancer finds the last musician, it will start to incarnationsmother struggles of his to drug-addicted accept her gender-fluid mother, hoping for maternal love to conquer his pain. A traumatized African-American woman seeks to wash away the obsessionFrom Rhysling told entirelyAward finalist in verse. Cassandra Rose Clarke bloody stains of a racially motivated violent assault.” comes a visceral examination of dance, music, and from the Foreword by Zachary Sklar 3 Trapped in the R.A.W. by Kate Boyes (ISBN: 978-1-61976-159-9) A young woman working alone in a small special collections library is trapped in the building when invaders overrun her town. She barricades the doors, peeks through a window, and watches in horror as people are murdered outside. The invaders wear uniforms that cover them completely, making it impossible for her to see their faces. intend to annihilate it. “AHowever, very promising she realizes debut, at with once both that realistic they doand not fantastic intend elements to subjugate deployed the to population. build a convincing They world and characters whose fate it’s easy to care about.” Peter Heck, Asimov’s, February 2020 in the face of uncertainty. Kaylee is a special collections librarian who’s trapped in the university’s“Boyes’s metafictional rare books SF library debut when convincingly aliens invade depicts Earth…. the tenacity Kaylee of is theundeniably human spirit charming; Boyes suffuses her diaries with both humor and weight. Boyes’s attention to detail carries the tale forward, drawing the reader into Kaylee’s journey of survival and discovery.…” Publishers Weekly, May 2019 “The novel demonstrates an impressively assured voice, an ingenious, casebook-like structure in which the journal of the title is supplemented by several ‘appendices’ written years later, and an equally creative use of illustrative material, drawn mostly from 19th-century books and the illustrations of Walter Crane....[T]he effect is unarguably story only becomes richer as we piece it together from these later documents. moving, Locus, as Gary we K. watch Wolfe, July,Kaylee 2019 transformed from a desperate and lonely figure into a kind of librarian legend, whose Special Citation, Philip K. Dick Award A Locus Recommended First Novel Tiptree Award Honor List The Weave Finalist for the for Best First Novel by Nancy Jane Moore Elysium (ISBN: 978-1-61976-077-6) The crew of the interstellar by Jennifer Marie Brissett ship Mercator is making (ISBN: 978-1-61976-053-0) valuable discoveries in the A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to is mounting between them and tell, the story of two people, of theDoradoan inhabitants region, of butthe conflictEarthlike- a city lost to chaos, of survival planet Cibola. Xenologist Caty and love. The program’s data, Sanjuro knows Cibolans can however, has been corrupted. As stop human settlements on their the novel's characters struggle planet, but her superiors think to survive apocalypse, they are she’s just gone native. Sundown, a Cibolan astronomer, sustained and challenged by the is working to keep the resistance peaceful, but others demands of love in a shattered see no reason for caution: they have successfully fought world both haunted and dangerous. off invaders in the past. “[E]very once in a while it’s great to see a book with such unconventional structure, that takes the genre playbook,

“Moore realistically and enjoyably describes the and still manages to tell both one and many moving and ofexcitement natives determined of scientific to exploration, defend their corporate home against greed, satisfyingtears all the stories.” pages out and shuffles them back together, invasion.”conspiracy, telepathic conflict, and the desperation Locus, Karen Burnhm, April, 2015 Publishers Weekly, July 2015 “Page by page Elysium merely dazzles; and then it absorbs; and then, at the end, as it must, it burns. It tells a story, and a history, that matter.” contact,“In this accomplished telepathic communication, first novel, Nancy and earthlingsJane Moore and Strange Horizons, Niall Harrison, Feb. 27, 2015 dramatizes at least three great speculative themes: first “Brissett deftly handles the challenge of a multitude eachaliens of at her war.… archetypal Like Ursula themes Le Guin,with adultMoore thought- never settles of characters all being the same people in a multitude for pat or clichéd extrapolations. Further, she treats and alien, with insight, respect, and compassion.” complicated questions about identity.” of places that are the same place, while exploring experimentMichael Bishop, thoroughness author of A and Funeral all forher the characters, Eyes of Fire human Publishers Weekly, October 2014 “Elysium is a powerfully ambitious book. In a certain and kept me reading and left me, at the end, knowing sense, it is a love story. But it is also a book about that“Nancy Caty Jane Sanjuro Moore’s and remarkable Sundown the first Cibolan novel drewcontinue me in identity politics, about history and collective memory, about technology and culture, and ultimately about favorite kind of novel.” theirVonda work N. McIntyre, and their author lives of , and their friendship.& The Starfarers My Quartet Los Angeles Review of Books, Steven Shaviro, June 3, 2015 extermination and genocide.” 4 2018 Lambda Literary Award Finalist Time’s Oldest Daughter Shortlisted for the 2019 Crawford Award by Susan W. Lyons A Locus Recommended First Novel (ISBN: 978-1-61976-105-6) The Breath of the Sun As the cosmic Big Bang propels Time, energy, and matter into motion, God and Satan squabble over their by Isaac R. Fellman respective domains while Sin and her son Death stew (ISBN: 978-1-61976-138-4) wants is to care for her child, who has an enormous “Fellman’s riveting debut appetitein squalor but and nothing despair to at eat the in Gatestheir drearyof Hell. prison,All she other melds prophecy, postcolonial than herself, of course. But then Sin notices, far above politics, and mountaineering in a nuanced secondary- the clean and sparkling garden world fantasy. Scarred from a ofthe Eden, stink where and squalor Death’s of apple- Hell, cheeked cousins Adam and Eve rather bury, Lamat Paed, enjoy delightful childhoods and indigenouscalamitous expeditionmountain guide she’d and plenty of fresh, wholesome food in a setting where Death himself telling the true story of her last, could thrive. traumaticclimbing memoirist, climb: leading is finally the charismatic and manipulative Now what’s a good mother to do? religious order of academians, “This Divine Comedy can be Mother Disaine, member of a genuinely comic (raucous and vulgar, with a great cast of to climb the mountain that Lamat’s Holoh people caricatures) yet manages to slip prophecies,consider the and body manuscript of God. Interlacing footnotes the from expedition Lamat’s both wise and touching moments into its sly insights with Lamat’s marriage-destroying first climb, about life, the universe, et cetera.” structure and delivers an atmospheric, poetic, and Faren Miller, Locus, February 2017 occasionallylover, Otile, Fellman wry and ably brutal executes story thatan ambitious moves with the gentle but unstoppable momentum of an iceberg. This A Locus Recommended First Novel author to watch.” Flesh & Wires is a compassionate Publishers Weekly ,and July 30,finely 2018 observed (Starred Review)debut from an by Jackie Hatton Finalist (ISBN: 978-1-61976-085-1) Following a failed the world left is Roadsouls sparsely populated with psychologically scarred by Betsy James survivors, some of them technologically-enhanced women. Lo, leader of the small safe haven of Saugatuck, (ISBN: 978-1-61976-091-2) “Say yes to the Roadsouls, when a spaceship arrives bearing two men with both and you can’t unsay it.” wonderfulfinds her technological and terrifying enhancements news. Flesh & put Wires to theraises test Even when that yes has sucked you questions about community, colonialism, immigration, out of your old life and hurled you and basic human rights, and challenges our into a world that will strip you and assumptions about the ties and obligations of family, change you forever. community, and society in a crisis situation. “If you long for a fantasy world that your senses could live in, and circumstances:“Jackie Hatton shows survivors us of that isn’t full of scheming nobility, cynical warriors, disaster,real women traumatized in extreme and mass hatreds, and magic as a weapon, read this divided among themselves, book. Its backbone is the wandering life of a sort of with superhuman powers and gypsy-hippie-circus group traveling a pre-industrial all-too-human hearts. As they confront change, we witness and throw-aways…. Vivid and earthy, celebrating a their desperation, their hope, rurallandscape world and with offering its sights a way and out smells to the and misfits wildlife, their need to discover the and the customs and pithy, colorful speech of its full range of their powers. Suzy McKee Charnas, “The Roadsouls, and the novel as a whole, are...open debut.” people.…” to wonder: genuine transformations that just happen, A provocative , andauthor exciting of James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (mainstream,without rituals heroic or spells.… fantasy, Betsy or romance).” James deliberately avoids Faren the Miller,tropes Locus and, April narratives 2016 typical of long fiction 5 Special Citation, 2015 Philip K. Dick Award A Locus Recommended First Novel Shortlisted for the 2014 Crawford Award The Little Animals The Stone Boatmen by Sarah Tolmie (ISBN: 978-1-61976-161-2) by Sarah Tolmie (ISBN: 978-1-61976-051-6) Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek, Tolmie tells a tale of three a quiet linen draper in cities, separated by oceans, Delft, has discovered a new lost to one another long ago: world: the world of the little animals, or animalcules, that of ceremonies; the second, he sees through his simple the cityfirst, of the words, city of of rituals, poetry; microscopes. These tiny and the third, the city of the creatures are everywhere, golden birds, of dreams. In even inside us. But who will their harbors stand the stone believe him? Not his wife, not boatmen, pointing outward his neighbors, not his fellow toward the unknown. merchants — only his friend Reinier De Graaf, a medical doctor. Then he meets an moment, beauty may strike with random grace, itinerant goose girl at the market who lives surrounded and “...a powerfullyunpretentious original little firstdetails novel... evoke At the any sense of by tiny, invisible voices. Are these the animalcules also? wonder. Reading The Stone Boatmen feels as natural as Leeuwenhoek and the girl form a curious alliance, breathing, but you can’t take anything for granted.” Faren Miller, Locus, April 2014 everything around them…. “Aand vigorous, gradually satisfying the lives historical of the little novel animals full of infiltrate interesting and likable characters.… Tolmie’s novel catches this intersection of the everyday with the unearthly and holds it for us like a drop of pond water Two Travelers under the lens, vibrant with life and activity, fascinating by Sarah Tolmie Ursula K. Le Guin “Tolmie intricately weaves together the best of (ISBN: 978-1-61976-103-2) in its strangeness and its familiarity.” The two stories that make up science and miracles.… This delightful novel is not to Two Traveler behistorical missed.” and weird fiction in this delicate tale of Publishers Weekly, March, 2019 (Starred Review) s are portal fictions identity.in an existential style like Isak “What Tolmie does, often brilliantly, is develop a theme Dinesen’s, exploring exile and sense of order that seems to be emerging into the duo of short stories in this worldof patterns she describes... that reflect That in various mysterious ways goosethe underlying girl may slim“Tolmie…delivers volume.... Rich an with exquisite detail, be the only hint we get of material magic in The Little both stories are imbued with Animals baroque sensibilities, a refreshing deviation from the a place and time, which at once seems like a charming typical medieval setting. Rather than relying on pure mannerist, but fairy there’s tale moreand a magicprovocative in Tolmie’s account tableaux of the of birth of our own modern worldview. and personalities to bring color to the unique magic of eachexposition, setting. Tolmie Tolmie’s uses investigations the characters’ of identity,interactions place, —Locus and personal meaning are a delight to read and a great contribution to the genre.” , Gary K. Wolfe, May 2019 Space is Just a Starry Night Publishers Weekly, April 2016 by Tanith Lee (ISBN: 978-1-61976-031-8)

spanningThe tales ina clear Space dark is Just sky. A Starry Night range across genres, as elegant as the field of stars assembles 12 tales published between 1979 and 2011,“Lee’s pluspowerful two originals. All of themcollection showcase her strong, entertaining, and often gorgeous writing.” Publishers Weekly, May 2013

6 Necessary Ill A Locus Awards Finalist Deb Taber (ISBN: 978-1-61976-022-6) Strange Matings: Science Fiction, “In Taber's fascinating debut, Feminism, African American Voices, set in an alternate near- and Octavia E. Butler future America, humankind edited by Rebecca J. Holden and crisis.… Skillful pacing, (ISBN: 978-1-61976-037-0) unpredictablefast approaches twists, a Malthusia nail- Strange Matings seeks to continue Butler’s bitingly tense moments, uncomfortable insights about humanity, and also to and an adroit resolution instigate new conversations about Butler and her make this an unusual and engrossing addition to the postapolcalyptic genre.” “This noteworthy work …. anthology…consists of a Publisher's Weekly, January 2013 (Starred Review) wide-ranging selection “Taber's debut novel presents an all-too-credible of sometimes-dense scholarly essays, highly whose mind approaches the world and its priorities readable reminiscences indystopic a very futuredifferent world way. and, The in characterization Jin, a complex character of and personal essays, truly genderless individuals—not androgynes or poems, correspondence, hermaphrodites—and the portrayal of an approach photographs, and to the world that is both ruthless and compassionate interviews.” Publishers Weekly, May 2013 groups and provide strong evidence for the availability make this an excellent candidate for book discussion Library Journal, March 15, 2013 (Starred Review) of significant genre literature. Highly recommended.”

Missing Links and Secret Histories A Selection of Wikipedia Entries Squaring the Circle: edited by L. Timmel Duchamp A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony from Across the Known Short fiction by Gheorghe Săsărman, (ISBN: 978-1-61976-039-4) tr. Ursula K. Le Guin Ever wonder who that frequent addressee of Anglophone Nineteenth­ century narrators, “Dear (ISBN: 978-1-61976-025-7) Reader,” really was? About Nancy Drew’s mother? Or “These trippy, cutting 24 stories, what the true story on which Edgar Allan Poe based chosen by SF/F grande dame Le Guin from a collection of Perhaps it never occurred to you to wonder if there 36 originally published in his melodramatic “Fall of the House of Usher” was? Romanian in 1975, inevitably draw comparisons to Italo ofmight fairy be attendance a relationship waned between in the eighteenthH.G. Wells’ Dr.century. Moreau Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Both Missingand Joseph Links Conrad’s and Secret Col. Histories Kurtz, or elucidates why the popularity these and other mysteries (some through architectural descriptions admittedly rather obscure). explore society and human psyche “Like Wikipedia, this book is masterfully crafted prose written by many contributors poemsof imaginary feel more cities, immediate, but Săsărman’s serving as spellbinding descriptions of architectural impossibilities as well as a wicked and witty sendup slyly subversive social commentary.” ofbut how forms history a unified is written whole.… Publishers Weekly, March 2013. today—and how some people and stories are systematically edited out of it. …We are invited to think about whose stories disappear from the timestream, and why some ideas are so quickly erased by cultural amnesia and editorial ‘consensus.’” Annalee Newitz, NPR, June 2013

7 The Moment of Change Unruly Islands An Anthology of Feminist Speculative Poetry Poetry by Liz Henry edited by Rose Lemberg (ISBN: 978-1-933500-97-3) (ISBN: 978-1-61976-006-6) “With all the awe and shiny of Barbarella, the breathless genres works that can be labeled mythic, fantastic, — , and the “In these pages you will find works in a variety of curiosity of Robert Hayden's

sheenAmerican of the Journal corner store, Liz science fictional, historical, surreal, magic realist, and folks; by poets based in the US, Canada, Britain, India, dismal, too-real fluorescent unclassifiable; poems by people of color and white otherworld) and makes it ours generation immigrants; by the able-bodied and the inHenry all of takes its signal the world and noise, (and theits disabled;Spain, and by the straight Philippines; and queer by first- poets and who second- may identify glorious classwar and cussmouth. “ as women, men, trans, and genderqueer.” Daphne Gottlieb, author of 15 Ways to Stay Alive from the Introduction by Rose Lemberg and Final Girl “…there is a great deal of anguish in this book: the anguish of silenced voices, of the belittled and ignored, slingshot us out and boomerang us back the anguish of suffering as well as the anguish of simultaneously“Liz Henry’s protean, over multiple phantasmagorical plains in all images directions. Immediate, futuristic, subliminal. An intimate, wild of wild, free-wheeling determination bound up in and spurredcircumscribed on by thatsuccess. anguish—a However, desire there for is freedom,also a sort a desire for recognition, a desire for the moment in Maureen Owen, author of Imaginary Income rideand through Zombie a Notes surrealistic mind field.” truths.… “Thesewhich the poems poem are transcends howling, and mere they text are and whispering, speaks and they are calmly—or madly—telling stories about In the House of the what it means to be a woman, any kind of woman, any person who reaches out for the name ‘woman.’” Seven Librarians Brit Mandelo, Tor.com, June 2012 A novella by (ISBN: 978-1-933500-98-0) When an old Carnegie library is closed, its seven librarians refuse to abandon their home. They lock the doors, and the forest grows around them like a cloak, sheltering them from the rest of the world. But their lives are changed when a book of fairy tales is found in the Book Drop, very, very overdue. The

In the House of the Seven Librarians is a timeless tale forpayment? anyone A who first-born spent achild. childhood in the refuge of the public library, or who believes that a world full of books is a truly magical place.

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Nominated for the 2009 Time and Robbery Philip K. Dick Award by Rebecca Ore Finalist for the 2010 Lambda Award (ISBN: 978-1-933500-87-4) Centuries Ago and Very Fast “Rebecca is up to her old tricks here: surprising, Short fiction by Rebecca Ore puzzling, and delighting us at (ISBN: 978-1-933500-25-5) every turn; and in this sleek, lean detective tale, coolly “In Centuries Ago and Very twisting the tail of Time Fast, Rebecca Ore pulls off itself.” using the raw language and Terry Bisson, author of Fire on an audacious experiment: the Mountain and TVA Baby “Time and Robbery is a daring todeliberate relate a seriesfocus onof linkedsexual new novel by one of the episodesencounters and of moments ‘slash’ fiction It features a gay immortal named Vel who can travel stupendously long life of a gay throughfield’s most time capable by sheer writers. force of will, an ability he must male,of reflection from his from earliest the days as use to travel back to his younger self to save his future a mammoth-hunting caveman descendents.” to around the present.” John DeNardo, Kirkus Book Reviews, February 2012 Faren Miller, Locus, June 2009

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While Redwood’s romance with Aidan Wildfire is central to the novel, female friendship is also a major theme…. Hairston incorporates romantic love into a constellation, rather stereotypes,than portraying all within it as a soloa lovingly shining sketched star. Her historical characters frame. invoke a sky where it can shine; “Intersectionsthey live and love of race, without class, losing and genderthemselves encompass in cultural these expectations, characters’ prejudices,entire lives. and They characters in Redwood and Wildfire struggleto these things.”with external http://tiptree.org/ and internal forces around questions of gender roles, love, identity, and sexuality.… The deftly negotiate freedom and integrity in a society where it’s difficult to hold true Finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award; Lonely Stardust: Tiptree Award Honor List Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays MINDSCAPE (ISBN: 978-1-61976-051-6) (ISBN: 978-1-933500-03-4) Taken together, these “[We] engage with an ensemble essays and plays broadcast a message of hope and variety to please a whole range ofcast SFados of sufficient from hard originality sf to queer and insists that our ability and feminist postcolonial… These intelligence that defiantly folk are enmeshed in a plotline our humanity and is one of ourdesire most to tellvaluable stories resources. defines swaths of originality, presented throughof great complexitya headlong and great power to different perspectives. It’s not everyday that ferociously vivid mise-en-scene. we“… Hairston get a collection shows thatus how includes different movie narratives reviews lend and New York Review of Science Fiction, the scripts for plays…. They form a cohesive whole October 2006 and illuminate multiple facets of this award winning author.... Reading these essays makes me appreciate almost hallucinogenic journey into a vision of Earth’s her storytelling all the more…. future…”“…a dazzling work of science fiction… an intoxicating, Los Angeles Review of Books, Karen Burnham, September 2014 The Women’s Times, February 2006 10 WINNER OF THE WILLIAM ATHELING JR. AWARD, 2010

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entertaining tale of women writers, editors, publishers and fans. It’s SF convention girl-gossip“Merrick boldly channeled goes where by a university no…academician scholar. Thehas goneresults before are bracing, and brings well-informed, back an and sort of shocking. Literature and feminism entwined in an unusual manner in that primordial soup. What emerged was, not surprisingly, sort of magical… You’ll meet a lot of wonderfully outspoken women in this book, writers, critics and, critically, fans.” Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column, November 2009

Narrative Power: 2018 Hugo Finalist Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles, 2018 Locus Award finalist Essays edited by L. Timmel Duchamp (ISBN: 978-1-933500-34-8) “The volume's subtitle— Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles— essays linger in the mind. Its writers haveexplains skin in whythe game. its autobiographicalMany of their insights accounts. have that “…Dachaubittersweet started flavor outpeculiar as an to artist’s colony. Joseph Goebbels, aReich novelist. Minister Narratives of Propaganda do strange Sleeping with Monsters: and Hitler’s BFF, started out as against malign narratives and the Pied Pipers of Readings and Reactions in Science Fiction things to people and places. There is no final protection and Fantasy by Liz Bourke We owe a debt of gratitude to L. Timmel Duchamp, (ISBN: 978-1-61976-123-0) Aqueducthistory except Press, the and steady the many pressure contributors. of conversation. Volumes A provocative, immensely readable collection of essays

Anil Menon, Strange Horizons, August 2010 perspective of a feminist and a historian, Sleeping With such this keep us alert, awake. May its tribe increase.” Monstersabout the is science an entertaining fiction and addition fantasy tofield, any from reader’s the Tiptree Award Honor List shelves. Final ballot for 2008 Nebula “This strong collection is culled from Bourke’s similarly titled Tor.com blog as well as other online sources, and Dangerous Space features eight original selections. Bourke’s critiques of

Short fiction by 1,000 words—demonstrate both her critical acumen Kelley Eskridge andfantasy her andappreciation science fiction—most of the genre.” running fewer than (ISBN: 978-1-933500-13-3) Publishers Weekly, June 2017

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that which we’d prefer not to discussof the genre and forceto externalize it into the spotlight.” Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column, March 2007

11 The Marq’ssan Cycle by L. Timmel Duchamp Awarded Special Honor by 2009 Tiptree Jury

BookWhat One: WouldAlanya tito TakeAlanya to Change the Way PostmodernBook Four: B Societieslood in the Work? Fruit (ISBN: 978-0-9746559-6-3) (ISBN: 978-1-933500-15-7) business as usual to a screeching halt all over to determine whether Earth should be theSeattle, world, February and Professor 2076. The Kay Marq’ssan Zeldin joins bring Robert quarantined,October 2086. and The a Marq’ssanyoung alien Fleet resorts returns to Sedgewick, US Chief of Security Services, in his war against the invaders. Soon Kay is making Sedgewick takes a lover and dreams of escaping rather than writing history. But as she goes herviolent, father’s unilateral fortress action. and joining Young Alexandrathe renegade withhead-to-head Sedgewick against and Security the Marq’ssan, Services long-buried multiply. women. The US Executive resorts to desperate secrets of her past resurface, and her conflicts measures.“The novel—the The conflict series over for that human matter—is rights a very grip on reality, is turned inside out. distillationspreads like of a politicalglobal wildfire. and ethical philosophy, “TheShe faces coupling terrifying of real choices. thoughtfulness Her world and view, rip- her a commentary on the importance and frailty of human rights, a feminist dystopia, and as in any other genre. But here…they’re locked something of an adventure story…” roaring excitement is as rare in— andscience certainly fiction Don D’Ammassa, Critical Mass, September 2007 tale of alien invasion togetherI’ve read in thedecades.” most exciting just be the best yet, part of a series that is the the Samuelmost intelligent! R. Delany, author— of Dhalgren most“The latestimportant book political in the Marq’ssan SF published Cycle in might the last Book Two: Renegade decade.” (ISBN: 978-1-933500-04-1) Jeff VanderMeer, www.omnivoracious.com Book Five: Stretto August 2077. The Pacific Northwest Free Zone, (ISBN: 978-1-933500-18-8) Thehaving US’s survived Security the Services first year has of deployed its existence, a paramilitaryfaces both internal covert and action external team tochallenges. capture Kay Zeldin, Security’s most wanted renegade, and womenThe final holding volume positions of the Marq’ssan of importance Cycle in the destabilize the Zone’s civil order. opens in January 2096. In the US, career-line “…pulse-pounding page-turner, based on agenda. Duchamp’s research into the shenanigans and “LikeExecutive its predecessors, attempt to enact this ais reformist, very much liberal a evil-doings of our own favorite set of spies, the novel of ideas and personal relations rather CIA.… this novel is not about current history or than of action or adventure.… If you enjoy anything resembling it. You do, indeed, get hints books designed to stimulate thought as well as of the truly alien. They’re the seeds of change.” entertain you, Duchamp’s speculations about Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column, April 2006 the forms of government and the ways in which people in power interact should prove Book Three: Tsunami very rewarding.” (ISBN: 978-1-933500-09-6) Donald D’Ammassa, Critical Mass, April 2008 Spring 2086. In a world recovering from war, the Free Zone’s Co-op faces a crisis within encourages its readers to write beyond the when ugly, long-buried secrets are dragged ending.“The final There volume are noin thegift-wrapped Marq’ssan resolutionsseries into the painful of day. In the US, the or easy redemptions on offer, rather there is a clear-sighted focus on the always-unfolding­ to reconsolidating the power it has lost to of reExecutive,­gional warlords, now reunited, even as turns popular its attention discontent personal and political action taken. This consequences is a series that — is intendeddeeply invested and unintended ­ in social — “Duchamp’s powerful use of language and her with executive rule spreads. transformation while resisting any temptation to ­consolation.” characters make this novel a dark and suspensefulgift for creating read.” unforgettable and complex Joan Haran, author of Human Cloning in the Media A.M. Dellamonica, Science Fiction Weekly, January 2007

12 Tiptree Award Honor List A Locus New and Locus Recommended Notable Book Chercher La Femme The Waterdancer’s by L. Timmel Duchamp World (ISBN: 978-1-61976-147-6) by L. Timmel Duchamp They named the planet “La Femme” and called it a paradise (ISBN: 978-1-61976-109-4)

9561 is heading up the mission to live on Frogmore for almost toand retrieve refused the to errantleave it. crew Now and Julia Humans have been struggling establish meaningful Contact themselves to punishing with the inhabitants. Are the gravityfive centuries, and the adapting deadly inhabitants really all female, as its ecology. Financier Inez Gauthier, patron of the the men want to return to Earth? artsmistflowers and daughter that dominate of the general commanding the Whatthe first happened crew claimed? to the women Why don’t planet's occupation forces, dreams of eliminating the on the crew? And why did Paul 22423 warn the First Council to send only male crew members? effortsmistflowers to crush that the make native exploitation insurgency. of theFascinated planet's “One of my favorite devices for SF stories is the alien bynatural the new wealth art-form so difficult of waterdancing and impede created her father's by race whose society presents a puzzle to humans. In this Solstice Balalzalar celebrating the planet's indigenous lifeforms, Inez assumes that her patronage will be inhabitants all appear to be women, and unusually enough to sustain Solstice's art even as she ruthlessly beautifulcase, an expedition ones as well. of men But thisarrives is not on a a variation planet whose of made waterdancing possible. “…Duchamp…raisespursues windfall profits some at hard the expense questions of aboutall that has rolessome as1950s well cheaplyas a touch made of philosophy SF exploitation about film. the Therelimits society’s responsibility for the well-being of its most onis some human subtle ability and to intelligent comprehend examination the universe, of gender but none marginalized people, suggesting that the powerful of that detracts from what is also a nicely constructed create the underclasses and keep them powerless for puzzle story. This was a surprisingly fast read.” Critical Mass, Don D’Ammassa, August 19, 2018 much to ponder in Duchamp’s provocative ideas about culturethe sake and of economic colonization.” convenience. Readers will find “…Duchamp’s concentrated and demanding Publishers Weekly, October 2016 convincingly presented as a simple piece of science examination of what’s accepted as ‘self’ is cleverly and Tiptree Award Honor List tofiction. a far-off Diplomat world, Julia, La Femme. a member The ofmission’s a socialistic primary human Never at Home society known as the Pax, is the head of a mission Short fiction by contact with La Femme’s inhabitants, though further L. Timmel Duchamp diplomaticpurpose is recoveryadvancement of the is first planned ship sentas well.… to make Duchamp makes abundant challenges to gender norms and raises (ISBN: 978-1-933500-74-4) questions of what constitutes alienness, and the novel’s “…The stories within are humanistic approach and unwavering commitment strange and heady, original and surprising. In them, the Duchamp precisely detailed world. This thoughtful tale bears rereadingto Julia’s frank and contemplation.”introspection go beautifully with a into some fascinating new world. Publishers Weekly, June 2018 Theheroine Duchamp often findsreader herself is in the pulled same position, though much A Locus recommended book Tiptree Award Honor List , author of The Jane Austen Book Club and Love’s Body, happierWhat toI Didn’t be there. See and HighlyOther Stories recommended.” Dancing in Time “L. Timmel Duchamp’s stories are intense, tricky, heartfelt, and most of all, interesting; they take on big Short fiction by themes in a clear way, but also at the same time swirl L. Timmel Duchamp with complications, moments of poetry, life itself.” (ISBN: 978-0-9746559-1-8) , author of Galileo’s Dream and the provocative love stories featuring “These stories take us places we haven’t been before. strong,“Duchamp’s memorable five unusual, heroines can Never at Home once again showcases a unique, haunt a reader long after the essential voice.” last page is turned.… Supremely Jeff VanderMeer author of Finch and The Third Bear consistently sensual prose with mystery and beauty.…” intelligentBooklist and“STAR” confident, Review, March Duchamp 2004 infuses her 13 A Locus recommended book; Imagination/Space Tiptree Award Honor List Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, The Universe of Things Technology, and Politics Short fiction by by Gwyneth Jones (ISBN: 978-1-933500-44-7) (ISBN: 978-1-933500-32-4)

a fabulous essayist… This is a must read if you care publishedThese stories ­“Collision.” span Jones’s Each career,story opens from “Thea window Eastern about“Not only both, is either,Gwyneth genre Jones literature a brilliant in anyauthor, form, she’s the Succession,”into a richly depictedfirst published culture in in 1988, which to its the intelligent, recently resourceful characters struggle to make sense of the topics…. The essays in this collection are clear and mysteries of their world. lucid,exploration insightful of self as throughall get out, literature, and totally or aaccessible…. host of other

the standard building blocks of SF in light of real writing pulls me in time and again, leaving me struck human“Jones’s history, sharp writing sociology, forces and the radical reader analyses to reconsider of byGwyneth how much Jones’s more mastery comprehensible of her subjects the tangled and engaging web of power structures.” Publishers Weekly, November 2010 Ernest Lilley, SF Revu, December 2009 is when seen through her eyes.”

Nominated for a Locus Award Winner of a Locus Award, 2009 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin Cheek by Jowl edited by Karen Joy Fowler & Debbie Notkin Essays by (ISBN: 978-1-933500-43-0) Ursula K. Le Guin “Written as a birthday tribute to one of speculative (ISBN: 978-1-933500-27-0 ) honors Le Guin with accounts that detail how several “Ursula K. Le Guin may be on friendsfiction’s and most former beloved students forerunners, came to this love slim her volume work. the short list of great writers to Evidence abounds of Le Guin’s generous, inquiring, emerge from our little corner and feminist spirit, and her rare ability to show us of the map, but she’s also ‘our own world, made strange something of a skirmisher… and familiar.’ …Fowler and and she continues to ask Notkin include poetry, short questions here, mostly in the

beyondfiction, and the basicessays facts that of build a life a passioncontext ofand children’s clarity we’ve and YA cumulative portrait extending literature, with the unflagging the relationship between to preserve the imagination, you don’t win with just a readingand, less and overtly, writing, examines twining couplecome to of expect skirmishes. from her You critical have to writing… keep at it, In and the Le war Guin the pleasures of absorbing does.” language with the act of Gary K. Wolfe, Locus, April 2009 learning the craft.” Publishers Weekly, January 2011 14

Tiptree Award Honor List Phillip K Dick Award Nominee Big Mama Stories Tiptree Award Honor List Short fiction by Locus Recommended Eleanor Arnason (ISBN: 978-1-61976-029-5) Hwarhath Stories One thing you can say for sure about Transgressive Tales by Aliens by Eleanor Arnason are never dull. The quirky, nearly omnipotentBig Mamas and members Big Poppas: of the their colorful lives (ISBN: 978-1-61976-095-0)

rove the Universe, able to leap vast other species able to travel among the tribe of Big Mamas and Big Poppas stars.Humanity This hasspecies, encountered who call onlythemselves one the hwarhath, or “people,” are also the only intelligent expanses of time and space in a single species so far encountered. Of course, we interest and historical trends. bound.And yet Little they docan have harm their a Mama problems. or puzzle and disturb each other.… Poppa, except large, mythological monsters and world- from the translator’s Introduction and strongly feminist synthesis of science, history, and sheer“…Arnason’s imagination. Big Mama Like mythos the best is fairy a highly tales enjoyable and folk tales, her stories sometimes go to dark and unsettling anybody“One of the other strongest than Ursula collections K. Le Guinof science who hasfiction written places, but they’re really about how to overcome the stories you’re ever likely to find. It’s hard to think of darkness—how to take a long view of the universe, Arnason, and this very strong collection gathers some where individual lives are at once very small but also ofbetter the bestanthropological stories published science by fiction anybody than during Eleanor the last very important and precious.” two decades.” Karin L. Kross, Tor.com, July 2013

TOMB OF THE FATHERS A Lydia Duluth Adventure “These are beingmagnificent the story stories, collection wise, ofwitty, the year.”science- fictionally fascinating, moving. This may well end up A novel by Eleanor Arnason Locus, Rich Horton, April 2016 “Arnason’s aliens are almost uniformly (ISBN: 978-1-933500-36-2) In this witty romp of a , Lydia Duluth joins a motley crew of intergalactic procreation.bisexual, and This forbidden behavior from allows engaging Arnason in heterosexual love beyond what’s needed for the Atch, who have a mysterious history they’d to adapt timeless folkloric tropes to her own liketravelers to keep to exploreburied on the the long planet lost homeworldthey left behind. of modern, progressive, and wholly original reality, which comes alive in her precise, rogue AI, determined to keep the planet and its classically beautiful prose.” systemBut the quarantined,expedition goes destroys alarmingly the stargate, awry when and a Publishers Weekly, February 29, 2016 the expedition is stranded on the planet. E-book Editions: The early novels The Sword Smith The Sword Smith tells the tale of Limper, a master sword smith running from an oppressive boss-king who forced him to make junk, and Nargri, his young dragon companion. In a new Afterword written for this edition, Arnason describes the characters as “mostly fairly ordinary people, rather than heroes, wizards, and kings. Their problems are ordinary problems, rather than a gigantic struggle between good and evil. ” Daughter of the Bear King Not your everyday fantasy, Daughter of the Bear King clearly arises from Second Wave Feminism. A middle-aged woman suddenly discovers that she has a role in an epic struggle between shoddiness and integrity. And her battle flowsTo the across Resurrection time and universes. Station A moldering mansion full of secrets, a disturbing master of the house, a young and innocent heroine, and the mansion’s servant, who drives the story.

ANew motley York crew City. escapes to Earth (now overrun by intelligent machines, except for a clearly crazy space port) where they land and begin exploring15 the ruins of Heirloom Books

— Aqueductthought-provoking, Press’s series work of that Heirloom can still Books speak aims powerfully to bring to back readers. into print The seriesand preserve takes its work name that from has the helped seeds make of older feministstrains of science vegetables, fiction so what valuable it is andtoday in danger work thatof being though lost. clearly Our hope of its is time to keep is still these pleasurable books from to beingread, worklost, as that works is that do not make it into the canon so often are. It Walks in Beauty Dorothea Dreams Selected prose of A novel by Chandler Davis Suzy McKee Charnas edited by Josh Lukin (ISBN: 978-1-933500-39-3) (ISBN: 978-1-933500-37-9) “For me, Dorothea Dreams is the most purely beautiful of [Suzy remember the last time I have “This is a terrific book. I can’t certainly the one that speaks It mostMcKee directly Charnas’s] to my novels. own fears It is Walksseen fiction, in Beauty especially introduces science us to and obsessions. When I read it, I a remarkable man, givesfiction, us insight put so into richly the in American context. am proud to be a woman, proud to be an artist, even proud to be asthmatic and mortal and fallible, because they’re all sciencehunts did fiction to ordinary community human of thelives 1940s and to and American ’50s, and part of being human. And that’s what art and literature remindscivilization. us how” much damage the ­McCarthy era of red are about, aren’t they? The glory and shame of the human condition.” Eleanor Arnason, author of Ring of Swords and A Woman of the Iron People from the Introduction by Delia Sherman, author of The Porcelain Dove and co-editor of Interfictions: An Anthology of New Amazonia Interstitial Writing A Foretaste of the Locus Recommended Future The Merril Theory of A novella by Lit’ry Criticism Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett by Judith Merril with an Introduction (ISBN: 978-1-61976-093-6) by Alexis Lothian (ISBN: 978-1-61976-048-6) herAlthough novels Judith (in collaboration Merril is best with “Corrupt, Degraded, Rotten to known for her short fiction and who ought to know better, actually pretending that C. M. Kornbluth), she wrote a the core is British Civilisation, and yet we find women great deal of nonfiction. She wrote of things,” declares the narrator of New Amazonia. whatabout makes SF fandom. S-F good. In these She chroniclescollected pieces, changes Merril within Ragingthey are against perfectly an contentedantifeminist with statement the existing signed order by theworks genre, through including and develops the emergence her definition of the New of “S-F” Wave. and “ladies” opposing the cause of women’s suffrage, a And she provides a history of the genre: its writers, its writer falls asleep in 1889 and wakens, in company publishers, and its magazines. with a hashish-smoking “masher,” in a future world run by women. New Amazonia tells the story of how this Complimentary expanded E-book (nearly double-size) future world came to be and reveals its shiny, futuristic included with print book. marvels as well as its government-administered horrors. Ring of Swords by Eleanor Arnason with a new introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin (ISBN: 978-1-61976-140-7)

As Ursula K. Le Guin writes in her new introduction: “Having recently brought their own competitive, feud-ridden society into a fragile balance of peace, the Hwarhath have been facing an thingsunexpected at home problem: make surethe lack the menof enemies. stay out Given in space the apparentlyprotecting theinnate home male planet. propensity The drawback for finding is that there seems to pretexts to fight, and the fact that their men were all trained as warriors, the women running Ring of Swords war,be nobody but about to protect trying notit from. to.” So, when in the vastness of space they finally stumble into another intelligent species, they rejoice. Enemies! At last! And those enemies? Humans, of course.16 And yet, is a novel “not about fighting a E-book Editions: Early Novels of Rebecca Ore

The Alien Trilogy Rebecca Ore

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Roy Sloan (Amazon Review) beneficial. Bracken County when her parents were killed. She hascorrupts been allrunning it touches. ever since,Maude trying Fuller to ran deny away her from innate Vol. 2 Á Being Alien Finalist for the 1990 Philip K. Dick Award Nominated for the 1990 Locus Awards: SF NOVEL. magical talent. Now Maude’s grandmother is dying, and Maude is drawn home. The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid return“Tom Red-Clay to Earth hason agrown secret up mission in the forgalaxy. the Federation.Now, in In 2067, human cloning is a part of everyday life. But the stunning sequel to BECOMING ALIEN, Tom must it is a bizarre form of cloning: not actually the direct one optional: research japan, go to dinner with two copying of a humans, but rather the construction His marching orders: “Three goals, two obligatory, of custom-made reproductions of humans using Anonymous (Amazon Review) animal DNA. The CIA uses these so-called “chimeras” humans, find a wife.… for various undercover operations, and one of their Vol 3. Á Human to Human technicians, Simon Boyle, has a sideline making illegal “The last book of the trilogy doesn’t pull any punches. copies: chimeras based on famous criminals, for rent. hates having come from a world of war and prejudice… or sometimes even recognize the sorts of things onRed the Clay other is a handconflicted he slowly character…on and painfully the one comes hand to he His Billy the Kid, a creation unable to comprehend terms of who he is and how far he’s gone.” ofthat historically didn’t exist convincing before the passion 1880s andwith endowed rich women. with Vincent Westerband (Amazon Review) powerful sex pheromones, is quite popular for a night

Alien Bootlegger and Other Stories alien: the unknown equation, the mysterious that can never be takenIn these for stories granted, Ore never explores be seen the asquestion “ordinary.” of what She itconfronts means to us be with visions of what it might mean to be the alien—the alien from outside and the alien within.

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Vol. 6 hell breaks loose. The Adventures of the operator, flouting both the law and the distributors, all Faithful Counselor Vol. 10 The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding) A Narrative Poem by Anne Sheldon A Short Novel by L. Timmel Duchamp (ISBN: 978-0-9746559-8-7) (ISBN: 978-1-933500-02-7) has no easy job, not even in 3000 BCE when both “Duchamp does a marvelous job of heavenThe Queen and of earth Heaven were and smaller. Earth Even within the gates portraying the intensely claustrophobic of her own city Uruk, the far-sighted and beautiful Facility A7, a closed universe so much goddess Inanna requires the assistance of her lovers to and of itself that the real world, which the author Gilgamesh and Ninshubur. only occasionally and nightmarishly evokes, fades to “Anne Sheldon’s use of vivid imagery, strong narrative Michael Levy, New York Review of Science Fiction, August 2006 voice, and cleverly placed anachronisms gives new life insignificance….” and a new perspective to an ancient tale.” MultiVerse Speculative Poetry Reviews, June 2005 Vol. 11 Vol. 7 Talking Back: Epistolary Ordinary People Edited by L. Timmel Duchamp A Collection by Eleanor (ISBN: 978-1-933500-05-8)  Arnason Talking Back showcases the epistolary (ISBN: 978-0-9746559-0-1) fantasies of eighteen writers, among whom number , Leslie What, Eileen Gunn, and Rosaleen Love. Invited to “talk back,” the authors penned love letters, fans letters, angry letters, Spanning thirty years, this volume collects six stories, thoughtful letters; letters to dead people, letters to one“It is poem, quite anda retrospective a ­WisCon Guest collection, of Honor with speech. stories going back to as early as 1974…[and provides] a new letters that will never be sent, intimate and personal, than ever to wish for more new stories from Eleanor fantasiesfictional characters, the authors letters have agreed to corporations. to share with These their are Arnason.”look at the range of her fiction, and more good reason readers. Tangent Online, June 2005 “…great fun to read, and thought-provoking too. What more could one ask from a book, or a letter?” Vol. 8 Strange Horizons, January 2007 Writing the Other Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward Vol. 12 (ISBN: 978-1-933500-00-3) Absolute Uncertainty Short Fiction by Lucy Sussex (ISBN: 978-1-933500-06-5) “Along with personal experience and examples, the “Strongly feminist, linguistically muscular, and workshopsbook presents the exercises authors have to help conducted, writers step reward outside their own ROAARS. The exercises, developed from writers with learning more about developing who deserves to be more widely read outside of her characters—including those who are “just like” homehistorically country….” erudite, Lucy Sussex is an Australian writer themselves—and understanding past and present stereotypes.” Strange Horizons, September 2006 Paula Guran, Writers.com Newsletter, Vol 9, no. 3 21 Vol. 13 Vol. 16 Candle in a Bottle We, Robots A Novella by Carolyn Ives Gilman A Novella by Sue Lange (ISBN: 978-1-933500-07-2) (ISBN: 978-1-933500-11-9) The savants of Institut Sorel, the world “[…]a hilarious critique of hyper-consumerist and center of information mechanics, protect-the-children-from-all-dangers-real-or- compute the governing algorithms perceived-at-all-costs-­always culture­ and a pointed that give all things their shape and meditation on the uses of pain, physical and emotional, structure; the voyants receive and sort in the formation of character, personality and enormous amounts of information. ambition.” And now the savants say that the Racheline Maltese, Books Correspondent for whole world, on the brink of a phase Gather.com, October 2007 transition, is about to change, such that the long-term equilibrium that has locked the world into an “order Vol. 17 crisis” will give way to a period of chaos. Making Love in Madrid “Interesting intellectual political intrigue, high-minded A Novella by makes…Candle in a Bottle a trip worth taking.” Kimberly Todd Wade science,Tangent and Online, a climax July 2006 that moves along at a brisk pace (ISBN: 978-1-933500-12-6) “A fantasia of amnesia, of lives that

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22 landscape is more complicated than she had thought. Vol. 20 Vol. 24 Voices From Fairyland: Three Observations and a Dialogue: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Round and About SF Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Essays by Sylvia Kelso Sylvia Townsend Warner (ISBN: 978-1-933500-28-7) Edited by Theodora Goss After WisCon 20, Sylvia Kelso (ISBN: 978-1-933500-21) Voices from Fairyland collects fantastical poems by rich, snappy correspondence about Bujold’sengaged VorkosiganLois McMaster novels, Bujold published in a Warner, and Theodora Goss, and offers four new essays here: “Letterspace: In the Chinks Between Published byMary Goss. Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, Sylvia Townsend Fiction and Published Criticism.” Also included are three critical essays discussing the intricacies of being an Australian feminist scholar writing about science

Vol. 21 Bujold’s Vorkosigan novels. fiction, colonialism in science fiction by women, and My Death Vol. 25 A Novella by The Buonarotti Quartet (ISBN: 978-1-933500-23-2) Short fiction by Gwyneth Jones “The satisfying mystery Tuttle weaves, (ISBN: 978-1-933500-29-4) and all the juicy little hints she buries The Buonarotti Quartet shows us humans traveling via throughout the plot, demonstrate the craft for which the device to alien worlds. Some are diplomats, some she is well known.” Val Grimm, The Fix, January 2009 a rough, wild ride. are extreme travelers, some are prisoners. All are in for Vol. 26 Vol. 22 Slightly Behind and to the Left De Secretis Mulierum A Novella by Short Fiction by Claire Light L. Timmel Duchamp (ISBN: 978-1-933500-34-8) (ISBN: 978-1-933500-24-9) “Claire Light has pulled together a poetic and surreal collection for the second decade of the A Locus recommended novella for 1995, discussion and controversy. I” the year of its original publication. twenty-firstCarole Ann century, Moleti, Tangent which Online will ,likely February generate 2010 much According to the Pentagon-owned-and-operated Past- Scan Device, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Aquinas Vol. 27 that’s impossible, that the technology must be bogus, Through the Drowsy Dark were both women in drag. Jane Pendler’s advisor says Leonardo. What’s a feminist graduate student to do? Fiction and poetry Whatand pulls else, the but plug do the on Jane’sresearch dissertation behind her research advisor’s on by Rachel Swirsky back, of course… (ISBN: 978-1-933500-38-6) “Swirsky’s range as a writer, from carefully realized fantasy stories to thought-driven short pieces and Winner of the 2008 poems that embrace several political and feminist Carl Brandon Society Parallax Award perspectives, is one of the most impressive things about Through the Drowsy Dark.” Sara Polsky, Strange Horizons, August 2010 Tiptree Award Honor List

Vol. 23 Vol. 28 Distances Shotgun Lullabies A Novella by Vandana Singh Short fiction by Sheree Renée (ISBN: 978-1-933500-26-3) Thomas “Intensely and lyrically written, this is the story of a (ISBN: 978-1-933500-59-1) woman named Anasuya who lives near the ocean on and poetry of Sheree Thomas, memory is the only layered novella I felt as though I had met a fully formed forceIn this strong first collection enough to of counter the stories the terrors of a scarred humana world being—not not unlike Earth.… to mention By the a number end of thisof fascinating finely and forgetful world. Thomas’ characters are people characters—and all with a mathematical conundrum scraping by in slave quarters and institutional margins, of epic proportions….” people in search of freedom and transformation who Bob Blough, Tangent Online, July 2009 come face to face with apocalyptic powers. 23 Vol. 29 A Brood of Foxes Tiptree Award Honor List A Novella by Kristin Livdahl Vol. 33 a Locus recommended book The Receptionist and Other Tales (ISBN: 978-1-933500-60-7) Poetry by Lesley Wheeler Set in a place where time has its own (ISBN: 978-1-61976-012-7) logic, human and animal is a shifting Edna, the heroine of , perspective, and the people we love are The Receptionist is a mother and the receptionist for an always slightly other—and better— academic department. The morning than we imagined, A Brood of Foxes faces us with the after hearing a Voice telling her, “The moral dimensions of environmental disasters—in a troublingly literal way. tofirst check revolution: her spam. simply The tomessage refuse,” she going found there from Vol. 30 “nomicthrough Utterance” her email in-box,changed Edna everything. thought The Bone Spindle “Wheeler’s brief novel of misbehavior in academia, Poetry and Short Fiction subtle and funny, rashly inventive and perfectly realistic, uses all the forgotten powers of metaphor and by Anne Sheldon poetry to make the mundane luminous.” (ISBN: 978-1-933500-72-0) Ursula K Le Guin Anne Sheldon’s heroines have lowered eyes and seditious smiles. They are people of folklore and fairy tales. These fourteen story-poems and stories focus on the work that women do with spinning wheel, A Locus recommended book spindle, and knitting needles. They are accompanied by evocative images of these instruments and the cloth Vol. 34 they yield. Birds and Birthdays Short Fiction by Christopher Barzak (ISBN: 978-1-61976-014-1) A Locus recommended book Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning: three of the most

Vol. 31 male-dominated Surrealism. This is The Last Letter Christopherinteresting painters Barzak’s to tribute flourish to inthem: A Novella by Fiona Lehn three stories and an essay that enter into a humane surrealism that turns (ISBN: 978-1-933500-86-7) away from the unconscious and toward magic. “This story of a biologist’s attempt to stop the advance of a strange and Barzak’s stories are huge with the spacious voracious parasite in a protected strangeness of worlds where there is always more forest perfectly balances the personal room for a woman to escape her tormenters, or outgrow an older self. and a fascinatingly odd encounter with a foreign ecosystem.”and the scientific, working as both a character study Jeff VanderMeer, Omnivoracious, December 2011 Vol. 35 The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others Vol. 32 Short fiction by Richard Bowes We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna (ISBN: 978-1-61976-028-8) Russ and Radical Truth-Telling Richard Bowes’ book of modern Essay by Brit Mandelo Fairy Tales, their Fantasy offspring (ISBN: 78-1-61976-005-9) and Legendary ancestors presents eight of his stories “To speak radical truths— including “The Lady of Wands,” in which a Fey cop unapologetically, ferociously, rudely when necessary — is the central original to this book is Bowes’ afterword, “A Secret tells her story, that appears here for the first time. Also Tales as a refuge for women, gay/lesbian writers, and groundbreakingpurpose of Joanna literary Russ’s and influential critical bodywork.… of work,”Russ LGBTHistory readers of Small from Books,” the 17th which century traces on. the path of Fairy declares Brit Mandelo in her essay on Russ’s radical, too-human intellectual and artist, one whose angry, brilliantemerges workin Mandelo’s we cannot essay afford as a to heroic ignore though or forget. all-

24 Vol. 36 Vol 40 Spring in Geneva NoFood A novella by Sylvia Kelso Short fiction by Sarah Tolmie

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food. What is he to do when technology tall man with a “lividlyMary hued Shelley, visage, a watery young eyes,banker’s and eliminates For top chef the Hardy need Arar,for it? his TGB whole (total life is blackened lips within son,a straggling and William, beard,” an pit excessively their gastric bypass) is a giant leap forward wits and derring-do against Lord Byron, master of technology, and his thuggish minions. sustenancefor humans routines,longing to and transcend disgusting their bodily flesh. processes. It has “The voice and character of Anton render it delightful; Butfulfilled like allthe technological desire of the richchange, to escape TGB unleashes illness, boring a haven’t seen that much earnest gallantry since cascade of effects, social, political, and economic, Reepicheep.” Lois McMaster Bujold effects drastically lives. “Structurally speaking, this book is brilliant. The stories are interlinked, yet they build on each other in unusual Vol. 37 the previous one has set. The relationships between The XY Conspiracy charactersways.… Each change story indisrupts surprising the expectationsand poignant that ways.” A novella by Lori Selke Molly Katz, Strange Horizons, August 2015 (ISBN: 978-1-61976-046-2) Why Are There No Women in Black? Vol 41 The Haunted Girl her living stripping in clubs in San Short fiction and poetry by Lisa Francisco.Jyn, an Asian-American But stripping lesbian, is only her makes M. Bradley (ISBN: 978-1-61976-063-9) The supernatural, the animal, and realizesday job. Herhe is true stalking vocation her. is UFO hunting. One night, working at her day job, she sights a Man in Black and Vol. 38 orthe wild. deadly Vampires, often find either each restless other in or Numa: An Epic Poem with Photo Collages Lisa M. Bradley’s landscapes, tame demigoddesses of evil and lust; haunted girls and dying by Katrinka Moore fairies—thefilled with ennui; characters shape-shifters in this collection and skin-walkers; inhabit worlds (ISBN: 978-1-61976-057-8) of danger, decay, and, sometimes, rebirth. Often rooted in issues of family, ritual, and belonging, the poems The poems in Numa tell the story of a and short stories display Bradley’s loving mastery of shape-shifting numen. Numa, whose language, which grants us myriad moments of impish home body is that of a wild feline, wit and startling beauty. learns by trial and error to take the form of other animals, plants, and the “… the innumerable facets of female identity glitter elements. As she grows up, she uses at the heart of these darkly beautiful treks through otherworldly landscapes of desire and pain, belonging divine in ordinary aspects of the world. and loneliness, creation and destruction.” her skill to experience and share the David Bowles, The Monitor, December 2014 Vol. 39 Vol 42 Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction Three Songs for Roxy Essays by Sheila Finch A novella by Caren Gussoff (ISBN: 978-1-61976-055-4) (ISBN: 978-1-61976-073-8) “This welcome discussion of the Three Songs for Roxy and stories about human inception what it means to be an explores outsider issues emphasizesconnections howbetween mythic future roots fiction throughof identity, three gender, inter-related sexuality, tales: and of contribute to the emotional power Kizzy, a foundling raised by a Romany of narrative. Finch investigates the Gypsy family in present-day Seattle, as she is about to be claimed by the aliens who left her to be raised as emanates from close encounters inexplicable awe and wonder that Katrina and security guard who is deeply affected by Marleen S. Barr whathuman; he ofwitnesses Scott Lynn when Miller, the aliensan unstable contact survivor Kizzy; and of of between myth and science fiction. ” “Natalie,” an alien assigned to retrieve Kizzy.

mental illness with a sensitivity that is all-inclusive….” “GussoffNina Allan, examines Strange issues Horizons of gender,, February sexuality, 2016 race and 25 Vol 43 Vol 46 Ghost Signs A Day in Deep Freeze Poetry and a story by Sonya Taaffe A novella by Lisa Shapter (ISBN: 978-1-61976-071-4) (ISBN: 978-1-61976-083-7) 1963: Emran Greene is a successful paths between the dead, memory, corporate accountant, a hopeful andPoet living. Sonya The Taaffe two-part traces cyclethe complex “Ghost soon-to-be-father, and an Signs” leads the reader through the underworld of myth to the hauntings for the lingering effects of an of the present, where the shades of unremarkable husband—except Sappho, Alan Turing, and Ludwig the impossibility of his conceiving a child, and all of the otherexperimental secrets hewartime keeps truthfrom hisserum, wife his and ex-boyfriend, his employer. Dido, and The War of the Worlds. “The One of these, the secret of the lonely grave he visits WittgensteinBoatman’s Cure” exist follows alongside a haunted Charon, regularly in Riverport’s Castleview Cemetery, holds a woman and a dead man as they tragedy that just won’t stay gone… embark on a road trip. “There’s a touch of Philip K. Dick in Shapter’s book. “The poetry here has the brilliance of a knife’s edge, The same concerns with paranoia and psychosis are sharp and cuttingly clean, saturated with meaning and present. The one key difference being that Shapter revels in the long drawn out moments, the slow build Liz Bourke, Strange Horizons, January 2016 freighted with significance.” yet to materialize.” Vol 44 towardsJustin Howe,a climax My thatBookish remains Ways, July off-screen, 2015 looming and The Prince of the Aquamarines Tales by Vol 47 Louise Cavelier Levesque A Field Guide to the Spirits Translated and with an Afterword Poetry by Jean LeBlanc by Ruth Berman (ISBN: 978-1-61976-097-4) (ISBN: 978-1-61976-071-4) In A Field Guide to the Spirits, An eighteenth-century writer creating new versions poetry becomes a means of of fairy tales, Levesque published “The Prince of time travel in which voices from Aquamarines” and “The Invisible Prince” in 1722. the past offer insights, reveal secrets, transform our concept of now. These poems tales (Le Conte Merveilleux Français de 1690 à 1790), praisedJacques LevesqueBarchilon, for in hisher studystyle, ofimagination, the French andfairy imagination, and desire. The spirits visited range from explore the interwoven pathways of ghost, memory,

Frankensteinpenetrating psychology., a century later. He was struck by her use of Caroline Herschel and Mary Shelley to Zane Grey and horrific elements, reminding him of Mary Shelley’s Dashiell Hammet, William Blake to Anne Hutchinson, Vol 45 John Keats to Isaac Newton’s niece. Back, Belly, & Side: True Lies and False Tales Shortlisted for the 2017 Crawford Award Short fiction by Celeste Rita Baker Vol 48 (ISBN: 978-1-61976-081-3) Marginalia to Stone Bird Did you ever wonder what the earth Poetry by Rose Lemberg thinks? What’s its favorite song? (ISBN: 978-1-61976-099-8) In this powerful debut collection, How she ended up in your heart? wouldThink youyou can’tpay for fly? answers? Think you have a job you don’t like? How much tradition,poet Rose language,Lemberg exploresand desire the in No, you can’t touch my hair. And landscapesdeep-rooted as fluidity familiar of asgender, high fantasy yes, I’ve seen your two-toned shoes. and as foreign as San Francisco. Written in the voices of immigrants, shape-changers, sentient ships in a distant Did you ever wonder what clouds future, and heroes of a mythic past, her poems inhabit Have you seen my father? too old for butter and beef? What’s that one last thing conscious act, stubbornly urging the reader’s attention youare reallyhave tofor? do? Or And how who I ended will helpup like you this? through? How old is towarda fragile, the vital marginal, space of the complex liminal, identity and the and unheard. story as a “Celeste Rita Baker’s stories balance heartache and “… a testament to how speculative poetry can succeed hilarity with poetic, uncompromising prose. This in capturing voice and plot and movement and feeling collection sings ancient songs with a modern beat. It is while still tackling big ideas and personal truths.” fully alive.” Charles Payseur, Nerds of a Feather, January 2016 Daniel José Older, author of Salsa Nocturna

26 Special Citation, 2017 Philip K. Dick Award Vol 52 Monteverde: Vol 49 Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist Unpronounceable A novella by Lola Robles A novella by Susan diRende tr. by Lawrence Schimel (ISBN: 978-1-61976-107-0) (ISBN: 978-1-61976-117-9) Earth has discovered it is not alone journeys to Aanuk, a paradisiacal planetTerran famousscholar forRachel both Monteverde its beaches nice,in the but universe. after a Thestring aliens — pink, of failed and the generosity of its nomadic diplomaticshapeless, and missions, peaceful — are they ask Earthvery inhabitants. The aanukiens are to stop with the crazies and send not the only people on the planet, someone normal. In frustration, the UN devises a however: Rachel is eager to meet the Fihdia, a cave-dwelling people who share a congenital condition againstlottery topretty pick muchthe next the ambassador. whole world. When she that makes them blind. Rachel’s Enter Rose Delancy, a Jersey waitress with a grudge relentless determination to communicate with them despite theyarrives, like she her. is She nothing settles but in rudeand starts to the teaching Blobs, as the she the Aanukien’s dismissal and the Fihdia’s secretiveness calls them, and they find it refreshing. She likes them; will yield more than she ever hoped for. “DiRende’s irreverence is a delight. And her sarcastic natives all about junk food, movies, and sex. A Locus recommended book Shortlist for the 2018 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards. wit Geraldcomes Everett through Jones, in Rose’s Splash Magazines,first-person June narration. 2016 Your feisty little broad from Jersey knows what’s what.” Vol 50. Vol 53 Sleeping Under the Tree of Life The Adventure of the Incognita Countess Short fiction by Sheree Renée Thomas A novella by Cynthia Ward (ISBN: 978-1-61976-111-7) (ISBN: 978-1-61976-119-3) Sleeping under the Tree of Life evokes the realm of ancestral It’s the easiest assignment a knowledge with a deep respect for the natural world, a love of needs only see the secret plans of the Nautilus safely language, and an invitation—for acrossBritish theintelligence Atlantic. Asagent German could spies hope arefor. largelyLucy Harker a survival, and asks: Who survives fantasy of newspapers, she anticipates no activities without being transformed? more strenuous than hiding her heritage as Dracula’s dhampir daughter. Then among her fellow Titanic “Thomas’s skill with poetry and prose is remarkable, passengers she discovers the incognita Countess and even the shortest poems in this volume contain Karnstein—and it seems the seductive vampire is in ideas and images that will linger in the reader’s mind. Publishers Weekly, July 2016 before her own heart—and her loyalty to the British Empire--areGermany’s service. subverted Can byAgent questions Harker as stake treacherous Carmilla as Finalist for the 2016 a night-cloaked iceberg? Shirley Jackson Award Vol 51 Other Places Vol 54 Short fiction by Karen Heuler Boundaries, Border Crossings, and Reinventing the Future (ISBN: 978-1-61976-115-5) Essays by Beth Plutchak Life unfolds in strange ways. You (ISBN: 978-1-61976-121-6) may encounter people from your past living in your former apartments, or realize you The personal is political, and the political is personal. This collection of essays and an sf ghostshave a penisback home. as you Wherever engage in youwar-dreams, travel, you’ll or find have to makea planet tough filled decisions with ghosts about that the look aliens exactly you maylike thehave of representation, science harmed and the aliens who may harm you. tale explores the intersections

relationshipfiction, feminism, to the social feminist justice, sf her characters and her settings. Establishing elaborate conventionand fandom, WisCon. specifically Plutchak in argues that to build a new themes“Heuler’s and prose morals illuminates is no easy the feat strangeness in such short of both future we need new stories, stories that tell us where we have been as well as show us where we are going, and laying the groundwork for her myriad of worlds, she uses feminist theory to analyze feminist sf fandom’s cultures,narrative and arcs, travelers.” but Heuler does it admirably, quickly history, present, and future. Publishers Weekly, September 2016 27 Winner of the 2018 Elgin Award Vol. 58 Vol 55 Helen’s Story Liberating the by Rosanne Rabinowitz Astronauts (ISBN: 978-1-61976-134-6) Poetry by Christina M. Rau Vaughan is alive and well and living (ISBN: 978-1-61976-127-8) inContrary Shoreditch, to rumors East London, of her death, stirring Helen From the Pointer Sisters doing up the art world with a series of erotically-charged the Neutron Dance to David landscapes depicting the strange events of her youth. Brought up by a man who regarded her as loathsome, Bowman’s exclamation while Fitzgerald’straveling through Gatsby; the this star collection gate near weaves Jupiter; its from way shuffled between boarding schools and foster homes, stealing Joan Didion’s sadness to erasing F. Scott companion. She made one other close friend, a girl calledyoung RachelHelen only who found disappeared pleasure in infull visits daylight. from Aftera secret feminism,through the a bitawkward of lit, in paradox Liberating of wanting The Astronauts freedom, we while fearing it. A little science, a bit of sci-fi, a little strokethat, Helen of paint was as left if itwith can her bring companion. Rachel back or take “Since the dawn of time, man has dreamed of visiting see that not fitting in gives us the freedom to stand out. herAs she to whereremembers Rachel her went. friend, She Helen paints lays to summon on each her companion once again, and show everyone what really most intriguing collections of poetry that investigates the stars… Christina M. Rau’s new book…is one of the lurks beyond the vanishing point. and inner space, with poems that tap into science as this instinctual call of discovery. She examines outer outstanding achievement in literature of the “dark Peter V. Dugan Nominated for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award for depicted through fact, fiction, and fantasy.… ” genre’s most enigmatic antagonists. fantastic,” Helen’s Story gives a voice to one of the A Locus recommended book Vol. 59 Liminal Spaces Vol. 56 by Beth Plutchak In Search of Lost Time (ISBN: 978-1-61976-136-0) by Karen Heuler (ISBN: 978-1-61976-125-4 ) fantasy, but they are deeply rooted in After beginning chemo for a reality,“Yes, these especially stories in are the science lives of fiction women. and We learn about being in college in the 1960s, going back to nature in Alaska, working in a bank and trying torare see cancer, and take Hildy other discovers people’s an to make a good life for a child with a disability. If there time.extraordinary She also discoverstalent—the there’s ability an is a single theme, it’s the struggle of women to control underground market for quality time. After all, who their lives—to be free.” has enough time? The dying, especially, want to get Eleanor Arnason, author of the Hwarhath Stories more of it, but giving it to them means taking it from Vol. 60 the black marketers’ strong-arm tactics and her own Feed Me the Bones of Our Saints quandariessomeone else. about How stealing moral issomething she? How so will precious she juggle and by Alex Dally MacFarlane vital that it can never be replaced? (ISBN: 978-1-61976-142-1) A civilization of only women

“Cosmovore Searches the Animal Shelter” nominated for the Rhysling Award pointand foxes to the fights place against of our its sun in alienextermination. skies. A story A series of vengeance of maps Vol. 57 is told and then lost, held only in Cosmovore the wind’s teeth and rain-ruined by Kristi Carter tapestries. A god creates a narrative map of a nation. (ISBN: 978-1-61976-131-5) Vol. 61 Nothing escapes me, not even light. If Not Skin by Toby MacNutt Cosmovore. (ISBN: 978-1-61976-145-2) Mother, monstrosity, woman, In this narrative collection of poems, the voice of the The pieces in If Not Skin are united by void reels and keens over meditations on consumption, themes of embodiment—all that a body can be, all that can be a body, by magic, fromthe body, her hunger.and the Inworld. the tinny From echoes the edges of a ofmuch-hated the Milky grant ease, but neither are all arduous Way to the confines of an eggshell, nowhere is safe science, and experience. Not all bodies womanhood, motherhood, society, and a goat as she pain, pleasure, gender, freedom, age, and memory triesmusical to reconcile triangle, explorethose around the questions her with she her faces own about withbodies every necessarily shapeshift, shaded taking with them horror. in through Move through richly identity. 28 textured, senseheavy poetry and prose. Vol. 62 Vol. 66 The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum Everything is Made of Letters A Novella by Cynthia Ward Short Fiction by Sofia Rhei (ISBN: 978-1-61976-153-7) (ISBN: 978-1-61976-149-0) “This tale of two monsters, at once romantic and action-packed, is fun A man risks his life by carefully and thought-provoking, giving readers forging bibliographic references everything they want. The novella in a parallel Barcelona; at the follows British spy and vampire hunter Cyclotech, a woman strives to keep the storytelling different engine safe from ignorant hands that could get words lost; off-planet, an Lucy Harker—child of Dracula and interpreter gives an account of her language learning serves on a missionMina to Harker, keep Winston stepdaughter Churchill to the safe process involving a realistic alien doll that claims to infamous Mycroft Holmes—as she be a sentient being… Words boast a heavy, at times disturbing, weight of their own across these alternative from wolfmen.…. Ward’s work is excellent, at once knowa simple about adventure history. story “ and a feminist text, and it invitesPublishers readers Weekly to ,reexamine November, 2018what they think they realities in which language rules supreme, fleshed Vol.out by67 the mind of one of the most prolific writers in Vol. 63 contemporary Spanish genre fiction. People Change Midnight at the Organporium Short Fiction and Poems by Short Fiction by Tara Campbell Gwynne Garfinkle (ISBN: 978-1-61976-163-6) (ISBN: 978-1-61976-157-5) What do a homicidal houseplant, an The stories and poems in People Change illuminate the personal and feminist concerns evoked by classic and the perfect piece of toast have in horror movies and other aspects of popular culture. common?enchanted They’re office picnic, all part sentient of the worldfog, of Midnight at the Organporium. At Frankenstein, Samantha Stephens, and the Stepford turns droll, wicked, and surreal, these Mining the implications of figures like the Bride of misogyny. At times horror merges with autobiography, the Princess and the Pea, to marriage in asWives, in “It’s the a bookUniversal explores Picture.” such Thethemes women as family and girls and in thetales afterlife. cover topics from white flight, to “Equal parts surreal and wickedly droll, Campbell’s collection of 12 Gwynne Garfinkle’s stories variously seek the gift of Vol. 64 stories traverses reality in a way that highlights the flight and the gift of friendship, real and imaginary. Invocabulary Poems by Gemma Files extraordinary within everyday life. The menagerie of (ISBN: 978-1-61976-151-3) dryly funny, poetic, poignant, dark, and trippy.” talesPublishers taps into Weekly an array, April of 2019) offbeat topics.… Each tale is dead gods and forgotten goddesses— Vol. 68 theseMyths are and the fairytales, subjects monsters that most and often magic, Algorithmic Shapeshifting inspire Gemma Files’s third collection Poems by Bogi Takács of speculative poetry. By running folk (ISBN: 978-1-61976-165-0) contemporary language, she maps the shadow-side of Algorithmic Shapeshifting horror symbolism through the filter of poetry collection of Bogi Takács, in an effort to show how the stories we tell ourselves winner of the Lambda award is the for first pullfiction us outheadlong with spells, forward curses, through confessions history, illuminatingand prayers editing Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best all the most unsolvable central mysteries of human Transgender Speculative Fiction, and The collection includes po0ems from the past decade Vol.existence 65 in words of both faith and fear. andfinalist previously for the Hugo unpublished and Locus work. awards. The scope of pieces The Green and Growing A Novella by Erin K. Wagner spaceextends reaches from the of the present speculative and past ofalways Jewish with life a in sense (ISBN: 978-1-61976-155-1) ofHungary curiosity and and the wonder. United States to the far-future, outer- In this intriguing tale of the clash of two — the forty-two daughters of Commander worlds and cultures, Miquita, one of genres“Bogi Takács as languages, is a poet e of makes visceral the exuberance reader eir and kaleidoscopeTalmudic invention. where Movingancient astraditions, dazzlingly unenvisioned between diplomaticHritrar, is sent ettiquette to the Ruburuii and a thoroughly after their alien technologies, and children’s toys tumble with ordinary, defeat at her father’s hands. Hampered by transcendent precision, imagining new ways of being her father has leveled against the cities and orchards culture, Miquita struggles to understand the destruction draw blood and spark synapses, make dauntingly help repair the terrible damage her father’s forces have familiarand observing and tenderly others strange.…”signally extant. These poems that depend on a failing artificial intelligence. 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