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Gaia’s Toys Rebecca Ore
A tale of eco-terrorism set in a dystopian near future of gene-manipulation, medical nanotechnology, and environmental damage; an examination of the risks of overpopulation and uncontrolled technological expansion.… More
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Necessary Ill Deb Taber
Jin, the neuter protagonist of Necessary Ill, begins the novel as a designer of plagues intended to set the world back into balance—a balance of population and resources, creation and destruction, choice and certainty—a… More
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The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others Richard Bowes
Richard Bowes’ book of modern Fairy Tales, their Fantasy offspring and Legendary ancestors presents eight of his stories including “The Lady of Wands,” in which a Fey cop tells her story, that appears here for… More
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Slow Funeral Rebecca Ore
Bracken County, nestled in the Blue Ridge region of the American South, is like no other place on Earth. Behind its facade of small-town southern life, magic works and corrupts all it touches. Maude Fuller has been running… More
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The Traveling Tide Rosaleen Love
An original collection of seven short stories. Rosaleen Love’s stories fairly dance and sing their way along the page, whether the scene is music itself, as in the tale she tells of driving her cousin Bridie, an… More
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Three Observations and a Dialogue Sylvia Kelso
After WisCon 20, Sylvia Kelso engaged Lois McMaster Bujold in a rich, snappy correspondence about Bujold’s Vorkosigan novels. That correspondence became “Letterspace: In the Chinks Between Published Fiction… More
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Ordinary People Eleanor Arnason
Spanning thirty years, this volume collects six stories, one poem, and a WisCon Guest of Honor speech. In the richly ironic “Warlords of Saturn’s Moons,” first published in 1974, a cigar-puffing… More
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Spirit Gwyneth Jones
Spirit, a space opera set in Gwyneth Jones’s Aleutian universe, re-visions Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo and further explores the workings and consequences of the series’ Buonarotti Transit.… More
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The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid Rebecca Ore
In the not-too-distant future, 2067, human cloning is a part of everyday life. But it is a bizarre form of cloning; not actually the direct copying of a humans, but rather the construction of custom-made reproductions… More
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Birds and Birthdays Christopher Barzak
Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning: three of the most interesting painters to flourish in male-dominated Surrealism. This is Christopher Barzak’s tribute to them, three stories and an essay … More
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Naomi Mitchison: a Profile of Her Life and Work Lesley A. Hall
A member of the famed Haldane family, Naomi Mitchison lived an adventurous, politically engaged, and well-examined life even as she wrote dozens of novels and works of nonfiction. From campaigning for women’s… More
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The Receptionist and Other Tales Lesley Wheeler
Gwyneth Jones, author of Spirit and The Universe of Things writes: Lesley “Wheeler’s The Receptionist is a delight: a stirring narrative of fantasy and derring-do, set in the ivy-clad towers and… More
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The Moment of Change (edited by ) Rose Lemberg
An anthology of feminist speculative poetry edited by Rose Lemberg. The contributors include many fine poets, among them Ursula K. Le Guin, Delia Sherman, Theodora Goss, Amal El-Mohtar, Vandana Singh, Nisi Shawl,… More
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Ancient, Ancient Kiini Ibura Salaam
Acclaimed author and critic Nalo Hopkinson writes, “Salaam treats words like the seductive weapons they are. She wields them to weave fierce, gorgeous stories that stroke your sensibilities, challenge your preconceptions,… More
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Human to Human Rebecca Ore
The scariest species can be your own. And the funniest, including you. In the end, a happy enough ending involves accepting creatures for what they are and can be. And every country boy made good out among strangers needs… More
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Being Alien Rebecca Ore
All the different ways of being a smart calculating creature doesn’t mean that those creatures don’t do dumb things from time to time, borrow each others’ vices, and can’t have hangnails and broken feathers.… More
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