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Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions

[STARRED REVIEW] “A commanding short story collection.” —Foreword

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having “an imagination that most of us would kill for,” Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive, and vividly beautiful. In her first collection of stories since 2015, a woman and her cyborg pig eke out a living in a future waterworld; two scientists contemplate the cavernous remains of an alien life-form; a trans woman at a funeral might be haunted by more than just bad memories; and an artist creates nanotechnology that asserts Blackness where it is least welcome and most needed.

In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft

Joe R. Lansdale

“Joe Lansdale squares up to the Great Old Ones—and taps into rich veins of awe and wit, with always a backbeat thrum of cosmic terror.”
—Kim Newman, author of the Anno Dracula series

Eleven-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho-tep) returns with this wicked short story collection of his irreverent Lovecraftian tributes. Knowingly skewering H. P. Lovecraft’s paranoid mythos, Lansdale embarks upon haunting yet sly explorations of the unknown, capturing the essence of cosmic dread.

Fears: Tales of Psychological Horror

Ellen Datlow, ed.

“With Fears, the latest addition to her already remarkable bibliography, [Datlow] proves yet again that she is one of the premier anthologists of her—or any other—generation.”
—Pete Atkins, author of Hellraiser: Bloodline

Bestselling horror editor Ellen Datlow (Body Shocks) returns with her most eclectic anthology. Here are twenty-one stories of extreme psychological dread from horror icons such as Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Simon Bestwick, and more.

The Wings Upon Her Back

Samantha Mills

**[STARRED REVIEW] “A triumphant debut novel.”—Booklist

Zenya was a teenager when she ran away from her home in war-torn Radezha, intending to join the mechanically-modified warrior sect. She was determined to earn mechanized wings and protect the people and city she loved. Under the strict tutelage of a mercurial, charismatic leader, Zenya became Winged Zemolai. But after twenty-six years of service, Zemolai is disillusioned with her role as an enforcer in an increasingly fascist state as she begins to understand the true nature of her sect, her leader, and the gods themselves.

Forthcoming Books

If Wishes Were Retail

Auston Habershaw

Alex Delmore wants out of her dead-end suburban town, but her parents are broke, her brother is an idiot, and NYU seems like a distant dream. Good thing there’s a genie in town—and he’s hiring at the Wellspring Mall. But it’d sure help if the Jinn-formerly-of-the-Ring-of-Khorad knew even one thing about 21st century America. In this cozy, chaotic, and deeply funny novel, the oddest couple team up to try make a living.

Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: An Oral History of Science Fiction

Richard Wolinsky, editor

In these highly-candid radio interviews, more than fifty legendary, larger-than-life personalities trade anecdotes about the Golden Age of science fiction. Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Fritz Leiber, Frank Herbert, Frank Kelly Freas, and many more, depict the wild personalities, sparks of contention, and vivid imagination that made science fiction thrive.

The Adventures of Mary Darling

Pat Murphy

A rip-roaring tale of magic and mystery!” —Andrea Hairston, author of Archangels of Funk

Who is Mary Darling? In this subversive take on both Peter Pan and Sherlock Holmes, a daring mother is the populist hero the Victorian era never knew it needed. In a witty and adventurous romp, The Adventures of Mary Darling draws on the histories of women and people indigenous to lands that Britain claimed, telling the stories of those who were ignored or misrepresented along the way.

One Level Down

Mary G. Thompson

“One Level Down is a perfectly executed gem of a book. Deeply satisfying and completely mesmerizing, it’s full of depth, heart, and thought.”
—Sarah Beth Durst, bestselling author of The Spellshop

Trapped in a child’s body, a resourceful woman risks death by deletion from a simulated world. With her debut novella for adults, Thompson has crafted a taut, ultimately hopeful story that deftly explores identity and autonomy.

The Unkillable Frank Lightning

Josh Rountree

“With The Unkillable Frank Lightning, Rountree solidifies himself as not only one of the best writers working today, but makes the case for being the best Western writer of our present century.”
—C. S. Humble, author of That Light Sublime trilogy

Catherine Coldbridge is a complicated woman: a doctor, an occultist, and briefly, a widow. In 1879, her husband, Private Frank Humble, was killed in a Sioux attack. In this adventurous retelling of Frankenstein in the Wild West, a resourceful woman struggles with the man she loved before she made him into a monster.

Jules, Penny & the Rooster

Daniel Pinkwater

“Daniel Pinkwater is so obviously the funniest writer of children’s books that he should be made a Living National Treasure.”
—Washington Post Book World

Internationally bestselling author Daniel Pinkwater (The Big Orange Splot) brings his zany wit and wisdom to the magical adventures of a clever girl and her brave dog. Told with warmth and wit, this is a delightful exploration of growing up, the power of family, and how sometimes the best things in life happen when you least expect them.

The Book of Atrix Wolfe: 30th Anniversary Edition

Patricia A. McKillip

“Atmospheric, complex, compelling, and filled with rich imagery.”
—Booklist

This brand new edition celebrates the 30th anniversary of a classic, luminous novel. In McKillip’s (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) stunning cinematic prose, the human world and the realm of faeries dangerously entwine through chaotic magic. Discover the spellbinding legend of generational atonement and redemption between a reluctant mage, a powerful wizard, a struggling heir, fae royalty, and a mysterious scullery maid.

Bestsellers

The Tangleroot Palace

Marjorie Liu

[STARRED REVIEW] “Liu’s mastery of so many different subgenres astounds, and her ear for language carries each story forward on gorgeously crafted sentences. This is a must-read.” —Publishers Weekly

New York Times bestselling author Marjorie Liu (Monstress) leads you deep into the heart of the tangled woods. In her dark, romantic, and spellbinding short fiction you will find dangerous magic and even more dangerous women: a body-stealing sorceress, a bone collecting apprentice-witch, a princess-turned-actress, and a warrior protecting China from her jealous ex.

The Freeze-Frame Revolution

Peter Watts

“This—THIS—is the cutting edge of science fiction.” —Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon

How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code—and unavoidable casualties.

Falling in Love with Hominids

Nalo Hopkinson

Los Angeles Public Library: Best of 2015 Fiction The Conversationalist Best Books of 2015 Open Letters Monthly, Top 2015 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Read Locus 2015 Recommended Reading List Rock Your Reality Dope Female Authors to Get Into This Women’s History Month BookRiot Most Influential Sci-Fi Books of the Past 10 Years

A long-awaited new collection from Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring) who has been dubbed “one of our most important writers,” (Junot Diaz), with “an imagination that most of us would kill for” (Los Angeles Times), whose work is “stunning,” (New York Times) and “simply triumphant” (Dorothy Allison).

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

James Tiptree, Jr.

“There is just one great collection of Tiptree’s fiction in print… Her Smoke Rose Up Forever from Tachyon Publications. It contains all of her major short stories.”
—New York Times Book Review

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever is the quintessential Tiptree collection. These eighteen brilliant short stories reflect the darkly complex world author, Alice Bradley Sheldon, who created and wrote under the persona of reclusive, enigmatic genius James Tiptree, Jr. This updated edition contains revisions from the author’s original notes, offering further insight into the fascinating subjects of her multi award-winning fiction: exploring the alien among us; the unreliability of perception; love, sex, and death; and humanity’s place in a vast, cold universe.