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Exploring speculative fiction since the year 2000
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NEWEST BOOKS
THE AMERICAN WRITER
by Jack Cady "Filled with humor and many provocative insights." — Library Journal Cady shares his knowledge in this wonderful and provocative book. It's both an open letter to young writers and a lovely overview for anyone interested in reading. SUBSTRATE PHANTOMS
by Jessica Reisman "Readers will want to jump headlong into the gravity well of Substrate Phantoms.” — Bradley Denton Jessica Reisman offers an evocative and thought-provoking story of a haunted space station and first contact, where who we are is questioned as much as who they might be. |
TWO HOUR
TRANSPORT 2 edited by NIB, Ramona Ridgewell & Keyan Bowes "A real trip . . . with multiple stops at fantastic stations in between." — Curtis Chen Two Hour Transport 2 is a celebration of the writing community around Two Hour Transport: the SF & Fantasy reading series that showcases works from Seattle-area writers, and from across the country and around the world. THE WHOLE MESS AND OTHER STORIES
by Jack Skillingstead "This collection cements Jack Skillingstead as a master of the short form." — John Joseph Adams 18 stories from Jack Skilling-stead’s 2nd decade of publishing feature intense and surprising explorations of who we are, who we wish to be, and who we can’t be. |
LIBERTY'S DAUGHTER
by Naomi Kritzer "Kritzer shows off her worldbuilding chops . . . the mystery is gripping." — Publishers Weekly, starred review *LODESTAR AWARD FINALIST* Beck lives on a seastead of constructed platforms and old cruise ships. Hired by a debt slave to track down a missing woman, Beck soon learns about life on the other side of the waterline. |
ARE YOU THERE
by Jack Skillingstead "The noir of the future, dark and cool." — Eileen Gunn This dynamic collection of 27 stories offers a wealth of fantastical and horrifying settings. Life after death, digital personalities, alien invasion, and Lovecraftian horror. |
2024 FORTHCOMING BOOKS
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD BEGINS IN ICE
by Kate Elliott “Hits every ‘craving something fresh’ button you’ve got.” — N.K. Jemisin 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. + a limited edition hardcover of 200 copies |
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 . . . |
BEYOND HERE BE MONSTERS
by Gregory Frost "Frost demonstrates craft, intelligence, a sense of humor, and a willingness to cross genre borders without a visa." — 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 |
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. |
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. . . |
COMING 2025
~OBVIOUSLY I LOVE YOU BUT IF I WERE A BIRD~ by Patrick O'Leary ~SPACE TRUCKER JESS~ by Matthew Kressel ~JUST ENOUGH RAIN~ by P H Lee ~A CATALOG OF STORMS~ by Fran Wilde ~BETTER DREAMS, FALLEN SEEDS AND OTHER HANDFULS OF HOPE~ by Ken Scholes ~WHEN MOTHERS DREAM~ by Brenda Cooper ~CHANGELOG~ by Rich Larson ~ONE LAST GAME~ by T.A. Chan ~BLACK HOLE HEART AND OTHER STORIES~ by K.A. Teryna ~EPHEMERA, COLLECTED WRITINGS Vol 3~ by Jack Cady |