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Exploring speculative fiction
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THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD BEGINS IN ICE
by Kate Elliott “Hits every ‘craving something fresh’ button you’ve got.” — N.K. Jemisin EXTRA HC COPIES AVAILABLE! Enter the Post-Roman Afro-Celtic icepunk regency fantasy world of Kate Elliott's Spiritwalker Trilogy with 11 standalone stories & 11 essays in a limited hardcover, featuring 14 different illustrators. |
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ALIBI
by Sharon Shinn "Shinn's characters are vivid, distinctive, real people." — Rachel Neumeier When an employer turns up dead, English tutor Taylor’s on the short list of suspects who could have killed him. Sure, she was in Atlanta on the night of the murder. But Atlanta is only a few minutes away by teleport. . . |
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STORM WATERS
by Kat Richardson "A pitch-perfect killer noir—keenly imagined by a master of the form." — Cherie Priest Richardson spins a modern noir thriller with a paranormal twist set in the Golden Age of Holly-wood. Murder, magic, love, death, and family: Marty Storm has come to the tipping point of his life, whether he knows it or not. |
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BEYOND HERE BE MONSTERS
by Gregory Frost "Frost demonstrates craft, intelligence, a sense of humor, and a willingness to cross genre borders." — John Kessell Monsters are where you find them . . . unless they find you first. Creatures and Curiosities lurk within this collection of fourteen dark, sinister, and comic stories by award finalist Gregory Frost. |
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EGYPTIAN MOTHERLODE
by David Sandner & Jacob Weisman "Impeccable . . . the clear-eyed, revisionist view of the sixties is most welcome." — Lewis Shiner The Prophet is a musician with the ability to warp reality through his music. His dreams bring him to other realms he should not go . . . |
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OBVIOUSLY I LOVE YOU BUT IF I WERE A BIRD
by Patrick O'Leary April 22 "A coherent tapestry of human experience.” — Anca Vlasopolis Readers of Patrick O’Leary’s poetic science fiction and fantasy will recognize the peculiar candor and humor and insight he brings to his first love, poetry. The newest author to our novelette-sized line, O'Leary wrote these poems over the course of 50 years. |
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SPACE TRUCKER JESS
by Matthew Kressel July 1 "This is Space Opera in the grand style . . . The tension keeps ratcheting up page by page, until the whole universe is at stake." — Dennis E. Taylor Jessian Urania Darger has been saving up to buy a huge cargo ship, run the long hauls, sail alone into the black, and never look back. In an odyssey that takes her across the galaxy, Jess encounters mind-bending secrets that may change humanity's path forever. |
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WHEN MOTHERS DREAM: STORIES
by Brenda Cooper August 12 “Cooper really excels in the short form. Every one of these tales is a gem.” — Louise Marley Award-winning writer Brenda Cooper celebrates the strength of the female in many guises: mother, daughter, engineer, biologist, and more. The collection mixes new and previously published speculative work. The bouquet of science fiction, fantasy, and poetry is tied together with a thread of hope and a colored with a touch of anger. It includes the voices of whales. It is a book for our times. |
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A CATALOG OF STORMS: COLLECTED SHORT FICTION
by Fran Wilde "Her stories are by turns exhilarating, heartbreaking and freeing.” — Aliette de Bodard August 12 The characters and tales of the 14 stories in Fran Wilde's A Catalog of Storms challenge and subvert expectations, and represent a decade of genre-spanning, celebrated stories from one of SFF’s most inventive and lyrical voices. |
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BETTER DREAMS, FALLEN SEEDS AND OTHER HANDFULS OF HOPE
by Ken Scholes August 12 "Scholes revels in the offbeat and surreal . . . with very real human fears and concerns, and his stories are all the richer for it." — Publishers Weekly Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds and Other Handfuls of Hope celebrates 25 years of Scholes’s eclectic short fiction. It features stories as recent as last year and stretches all the way back to the beginning of his career in 2000, marking a quarter century in print as an author. |
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CHANGELOG: COLLECTED FICTION by Rich Larson September 2 "Larson’s stories crackle with energy and imagination.” — Sarah Pinsker In the long-awaited follow-up to his debut collection Tomorrow Factory, Rich Larson plunges us through a multiplicity of futures. Ranging in length from byte-sized drabbles to elaborate novelettes, the twenty-six stories assembled in Changelog explore the symbiosis of humanity and technology at every stop. |
PLUS:
| T.A. Chan | ONE LAST GAME
| Sharon Shinn | SHIFTER AND SHADOW
| K.A. Teryna | BLACK HOLE HEART AND OTHER STORIES
| Jack Cady | EPHEMERA, COLLECTED WRITINGS Vol 3
| T.A. Chan | ONE LAST GAME
| Sharon Shinn | SHIFTER AND SHADOW
| K.A. Teryna | BLACK HOLE HEART AND OTHER STORIES
| Jack Cady | EPHEMERA, COLLECTED WRITINGS Vol 3
2026 FORTHCOMING BOOKS
| Stephanie Feldman | THE NIGHT PARADE AND OTHER STORIES
| Judith Moffett | THE HOLY GROUND TRILOGY
| Judith Moffett | THE HOLY GROUND TRILOGY
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CURRENT BESTSELLERS
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THE 10% SOLUTION
by Ken Rand "The 10% Solution is proof positive that effective books on writing need not be long or tedious." — Jack Cady Ken Rand offers his own advice and twenty-five years of experience for the benefit of other writers in this no-nonsense approach to editing fiction. |
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WHISPERING WOOD
by Sharon Shinn "Brilliant world-building ... layered richness of her characterizations, Shinn is in top form" — Mary Jo Putney The long-awaited new book in the Elemental Blessings series. Valentina Serlast has reluctantly traveled to the royal city to witness her brother Darien be crowned the king of Welce, an event that may lead Welce to the brink of war. |
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CAT PICTURES PLEASE AND OTHER STORIES
by Naomi Kritzer "Kritzer’s flawless collection taps deep wells of emotion and wonder. . . This splendid treat is not to be missed." — Publishers Weekly, starred review Here are seventeen short stories, including Kritzer's Hugo Award-winning story "Cat Pictures Please." Her stories are filled with wit and intelligence, and require thoughtful reading. |
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