- Publishers Weekly gave a starred review (“will inspire writers, delight and satisfy readers who are already familiar with fluid gender identities, and leave newly enlightened readers determined to make the world more welcoming”) to Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction edited by new Strange Horizons editor Brit Mandelo.
- Charles A. Tan is one of the busier people we know and it is thrilling to see he’s converted some of that energy into a book Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology. Publishers Weekly says, “SF/F blogger and critic Tan has assembled an eclectic, innovative mix of 14 stories for what is almost certainly the first Filipino–Chinese speculative fiction anthology.”
- And Lethe Press publisher Steve Berman’s latest anthology is Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction features 15 of last year’s best stories.
- Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze
- Maureen F. McHugh, After the Apocalypse
- Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen
- Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo
- Karen Joy Fowler, What I Didn’t See and Other Stories/ Angelica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial / Kelley Eskridge, Solitaire
ALA lists
Tags: 2013 Over the Rainbow List, ALA, Alex Jeffers, Delia Sherman, JoSelle Vanderhooft, Lethe PressWe’re very happy to report that two Lethe Press titles made the American Library Association’s Over the Rainbow list: Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction, edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Alex Jeffers’s collection You Will Meet a Stranger Far from Home: Wonder Stories. To celebrate, both titles are 50% off!
And, lovely news at Big Mouth House, too: Delia Sherman’s The Freedom Maze is on the ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults. So, sure, we put it on sale, too! But for a short time, you have been warned! This is what the ALA said about it: “Forced to spend her summer at her grandmother’s Southern house in the 1960′s, Sophie unwittingly finds herself transported to the Civil War era as a slave of her ancestors.” The paperback rights just sold to the excellent people at Candlewick Press and we’re really excited to see this book do so well.
Did you notice the new PM titles? I like the look of Signal 02. Another of their books is coming on Tuesday: In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism.
Also: coming tomorrow, a bucketload of new magazines! Lightspeed! Locus! I don’t know what else! Many! The new issue of BCS. Also, Trafalgar by Angélica Gorodischer (trans. by Amalia Gladhart). Is it good? Check out this review on Tor.com where the reviewer has their mind blown. Also, you may want to put the coffee pot on.
And since this is the last day of the month, tomorrow we should post the monthly bestsellers, too—although you can check those out anytime the menu on the left hand side. Irregulars, anyone?
Wizard’s Tower added, Apex reached, Lethe has a green thumb
Tags: Apex Magazine, Clarkesworld, Delia Sherman, Joan Aiken, Karen Lord, Lethe Press, Locus, Wizard's Tower Press
Out goes the latest issue of Apex Magazine into the world. It has a story and interview with Genevieve Valentine as well as stories by Kat Howard, Marie Brennan, and Nir Yaniv, an article with the best title ever by Jim C. Hines (“Mighty Axes and Beer-Soaked Beards: The Portrayal of Dwarves in Fantasy”) and Lynne M. Thomas’s editorial. If monthly isn’t enough for your magazine fix, don’t forget that every two weeks there’s a new issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
We’re happy to announce that we have added the first five titles from Wizard’s Tower Press which is run by our pal Cheryl Morgan over in the UK. Get your Ben Jeapes and Juliet McKenna here. Also this week, new titles from those busy bees at Lethe Press, including the fascinating looking Green Thumb by Tom Cardamone where “Mutability blooms in the Florida Keys after the Red War.” Caught my eye.
Lethe have also published a few very interesting looking anthologies of late:
What else? The new Locus hasn’t arrived at my house yet, but you can get it instantly in pdf, epub, and mobi. It has interviews with Jack Vance and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, awards winners, an appreciation of Ray Bradbury by his daughter, and all the usual good stuff.
In Small Beer Press news it was a great weekend as Delia Sherman’s The Freedom Maze had received its third(!) award, the Mythopoeic, and Karen Lord’s debut novel Redemption in Indigo received its fourth(!!), the Carl Brandon Parallax Award.
There’s also a new Small Beer Podcast wherein Benjamin Rosenbaum’s “Sense and Sensibility” is read by Dave Thompson, and for those who like apps, Joan Aiken’s lovely “The Sale of Midsummer” is now up for free on Consortium’s free Bookslinger short story app.
Lastly: there were a few errors in the latest issue of Clarkesworld, so we have uploaded the most recent, corrected edition of issue 71 which is now available to all readers and subscribers in the Library.
Last day of sale!
Tags: Apex Magazine, Bestsellers, Delia Sherman
Today is the last day of our ***50% off*** Small Beer ebooks—and 25% off anything else and the Apex (win a Nook Tablet) subscription drive!
Engines = 50% off Livia Llewellyn’s Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors
Small = 50% off all Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House titles!
WELCOME = 25% off ANYTHING!
It’s also the last day of the Apex subscription drive where there are tons of free books on offer as well as a chance at a Nook Tablet.
Next month we have the last installment (there will be wailing, gnashing of teeth, and more!) of Ginn Hale’s The Rifter. There will be an online party—with giveaways—and we will point you toward it.
The sale shook things up and the November Bestseller list (so far) is:
