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Pilot Johannes Göransson
PILOT (“JOHANN THE CAROUSEL HORSE”) is an assemblage, a book of nursery rhymes gone wrong in translation. Its strange characters, abandoned from other texts, include Lilja, the Pearls of Stockholm and assorted imperiled girls. Here, in Johannes Goransson’s glittering exocity, they find a new and beautifully stitched home.
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Wicked Gentlemen Ginn Hale
2008 Spectrum Award Winner and 2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Belimai Sykes is a dangerous man: the descendant of ancient demons, a creature of dark temptations and rare powers. Sykes is also the only one Captain William Harper can turn to when faced with a series of grisly murders.
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Redemption in Indigo Karen Lord
9781931520669 · 200 pp
In this clever and entrancing debut novel—which won the Frank Collymore Award—Paama frees herself from a troublesome and capricious husband, only to become the unwitting heroine in a fantastic struggle to reconcile the supernatural forces of fate with humanity’s free will.
“A great deal happens in… More
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Changing Lily Hoang
PEN/Beyond Margins Award
“Read this book. It will stretch you.”
—The Collagist
At once a fairy tale, a fortune, and a translation told through the I Ching, Vietnamese-American author Lily Hoang’s Changing is a ghostly and miniature novel. Both mysterious and lucid at once, the book follows Little Girl… More -
Whitework McWaters Ashley
The poems in WHITEWORK, Ashley McWaters’ debut collection, explore sewing as synecdoche for the whole of women’s work, particularly the creative work traditionally deemed acceptable for women. Braiding together the myth of Athena and Arachne, a Victorian teacher-pupil relationship, and the act of writing itself, this pristine and haunted collection… More
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The Enchanters vs. Sprawlburg Springs Brian Costello
“With this book, Brian Costello has done the nearly impossible: He’s managed to document the secret world of a rock n’ roll band in hilarious, satirical detail. The Enchanters… is as important as Moby Dick: the song by Led Zeppelin, not the book. His prose wields the same immortal bombast… More
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Carmen Dog Carol Emshwiller
“A rollicking outre satire…. full of comic leaps and absurdist genius.”
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Feral Machines Ginn Hale
When the interstellar wildlife sanctuary Casaverde is quarantined due to an mysterious outbreak of malaria, Andrew Salazar must turn to military surplus synthetic life-forms to help him in his work as warden.
But Andrew soon discovers that the synthetics are far more complex creatures than he first imagined and that… More -
Meeks Julia Holmes
Read an excerpt from Meeks at The Collagist.
“A highly imaginative debut finds a stark Darwinian logic in a rigidly hierarchical society. . . . Holmes has fashioned a terrifying and utterly convincing world in which the perfect human being is one stripped of all illusions.”
—Publishers Weekly
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Scorch Atlas Blake Butler
“Butler is an original force who is fearless with form… The design is appropriately disarming, an apt part of the overall barrage by this inventive and deeply promising young author.”—Time Out New York
A novel of 14 interlocking stories set in ruined American locales where birds speak gibberish, the sky… More -
This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record Susannah Felts
THIS WILL GO DOWN ON YOUR PERMANENT RECORD is an incredibly intimate, thoughtfully written novel, a kind of snapshot album rendered in glimmering prose, one perfect record of the daydreams and nightmares of everyone’s years in high school.
—Joe Meno, author of Hairstyles of the Damned
“Of all the books… More -
Hiding Out Jonathan Messinger
Illustrated by Rob Funderburk
“Messinger’s stories are aching, not bleak, and the collection, wittily and expressively illustrated with Rob Funderburk’s line drawings, is fun, engaging, and a bit more than thought-provoking. A fresh, spot-on debut.”
—Mark Eleveld, Booklist
Nothing is as it seems: A jilted lover dons robot armor to… More -
boring boring boring boring boring boring boring Zach Plague
Written and designed by Zach Plague.
“The effect is that of artist’s journal meets ransom note: the text held hostage by the design.”—Print Magazine
When the mysterious gray book that drives their twisted relationship goes missing, Ollister and Adelaide lose their post-modern marbles. He plots revenge against art patriarch The… More -
AM/PM Amelia Gray
“At moments screwy, prickly and pleasantly surprising, Gray’s short shorts deliver youthful snapshots about being nuts in love… A delectable debut.”—Publishers Weekly
If anything’s going to save the characters in Amelia Gray’s debut from their troubled romances, their social improprieties, or their hands turning into claws, it’s a John… More -
The Awful Possibilities Christian TeBordo
“Christian TeBordo shows that it is possible to be, simultaneously, a wise old soul and a crazed young terror.”
—George Saunders
“Nine caustic stories by TeBordo find screeching ironies in rhetorical absurdities and writerly subversiveness. Bizarre and biting, these tales leave a mark.”
—Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
A girl… More -
The Bird Shaman Judith Moffett
The long-awaited conclusion of the Holy Ground trilogy! [At the moment this is the only part of this trilogy available here.]
Occupation of Earth is now in its 27th year, and relations between humanity and the dictatorial Hefn have never seemed shakier. The aliens mission is to save the planet… More -
Pennterra Judith Moffett
Pennterra is a beautiful and fertile planet and humanity’s last hope for survival. But Pennterra is already inhabited. After warning other colony ships to stay away, the small advance colony of Quakers has adapted to life on Pennterra. Heeding the empathic warnings of the native hrossa, they have settled in… More
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The Archer’s Heart: Part III Astrid Amara
The final part of our first serialized fiction on Weightless!
Catch up: Part 1. Part 2. In the ancient kingdom of Marhavad, noblemen dominate the lower castes, wielding mystic weapons, known as shartas, against any who oppose them. For generations the rule of Marhavad’s kings has been absolute.… More -
Redemption in Indigo Karen Lord
9781931520669 · 200 pp
In this clever and entrancing debut novel—which won the Frank Collymore Award—Paama frees herself from a troublesome and capricious husband, only to become the unwitting heroine in a fantastic struggle to reconcile the supernatural forces of fate with humanity’s free will.
“A great deal happens in… More