FAIRWOOD PRESS

Exploring speculative fiction
since the year 2000

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OBVIOUSLY I LOVE YOU BUT IF I WERE A BIRD
by Patrick O'Leary

"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.

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.

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. . .

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.

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.

2025 FORTHCOMING BOOKS

SPACE TRUCKER JESS
by Matthew Kressel

"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.

WHEN MOTHERS DREAM: STORIES
by Brenda Cooper

“To read Brenda Cooper’s work is to experience the natural world in your bones.”
— Tara Campbell

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.

A CATALOG OF STORMS: COLLECTED SHORT FICTION
by Fran Wilde

"Her stories are by turns exhilarating, heartbreaking and freeing.”
  — Aliette de Bodard

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.

BETTER DREAMS, FALLEN SEEDS AND OTHER HANDFULS OF HOPE
by Ken Scholes

"Enchanting, like the unholy lovechild of a mermaid and Bob Dylan."
— Emily C. Skaftun, author of Living Forever and Other Terrible Ideas

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.

CHANGELOG: COLLECTED FICTION
by Rich Larson

"Rich Larson is one of the most versatile short story writers I know."
  — Ellen Datlow, multi-award winning editor

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.

BLACK HOLE HEART AND OTHER STORIES
by K.A. Terynya translated by Alex Shvartsman

"With her brooding sense of the absurd, K.A. Teryna will teach you a new way to embrace the fantastic. I needed to read these stories.” — James Patrick Kelly

The world is not how we perceive it. This book has the answers. But in return, it might steal your heart. Black Hole Heart and Other Stories contains 13 speculative tales by the award-winning author and illustrator K.A. Teryna, translated from Russian.

2026 FORTHCOMING BOOKS

| Stephanie Feldman | THE NIGHT PARADE AND OTHER STORIES
| Judith Moffett | THE HOLY GROUND TRILOGY

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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.

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.

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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