Poetry
Fortune’s Lover (New York: A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2009)
Translation
Tyrant Oidipous (Oedipus Rex), with David Vine (Roskilde: EyeCorner Press, 2012
Nonfiction
The Body of the Goddess (Shaftesbury: Element, 1997)
Tarot-related books
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Tarot (Shaftesbury: Element, 1999)
The Forest of Souls (St. Paul: Llewellyn, 2003)
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, Part 1, The Major Arcana (Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1980); Part 2, The Minor Arcana (Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1983) Revised one-volume edition (London: HarperCollins, 1997)
Rachel Pollack’s Tarot Wisdom (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2008)
The New Tarot Handbook (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2011)
Tarot and Oracle decks
Shining Woman Tarot, designed and drawn by Rachel Pollack (Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1992)
Shining Tribe Tarot, designed and drawn by Rachel Pollack (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2001)
The Burning Serpent Oracle, with artist Robert M. Place (Saugerties, NY: Hermes Publications, 2013)
The Raziel Tarot, with artist Robert M. Place (Saugerties, NY: Hermes Publications, 2016)
Comics
Doom Patrol (DC/Vertigo)
Tomahawk (DC/Vertigo)
The Geek (DC/Vertigo)
New Gods (DC)
Time Breakers (DC/Helix)
About the Author
RACHEL POLLACK IS THE author of forty-three books of fiction and nonfiction, including Unquenchable Fire, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Godmother Night, winner of the World Fantasy Award. Her nonfiction includes a series of books on the spiritual and psychological symbolism in Tarot cards. Her Tarot book, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom, often described as “the bible of Tarot readers,” has been in print continually since 1980 and has been sold around the world. Rachel is also a poet, author of the chapbook Fortune’s Lover, and a visual artist, creator of the Shining Tribe Tarot deck. Working with the celebrated Tarot card artist Robert M. Place, she has created the Raziel Tarot, and the Burning Serpent Oracle. Rachel has taught and lectured in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages. For eleven years she was a senior faculty member of Goddard College’s MFA writing program. Her most recent book is The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories.
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Report from Planet Midnight
Nalo Hopkinson
ISBN: 978-1-60486-497-7
5 by 7.5 • 128 pages
Nalo Hopkinson has been busily (and wonderfully) “subverting the genre” since her first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won a Locus Award for SF and Fantasy in 1999. Since then she has acquired a prestigious World Fantasy Award, a legion of adventurous and aware fans, a reputation for intellect seasoned with humor, and a place of honor in the short list of SF writers who are tearing down the walls of category and transporting readers to previously unimagined planets and realms.
Never one to hold her tongue, Hopkinson takes on sexism and racism in publishing in “Report from Planet Midnight,” a historic and controversial presentation to her colleagues and fans.
Plus… “Message in a Bottle,” a radical new twist on the time travel tale that demolishes the sentimental myth of childhood innocence; and “Shift,” a tempestuous erotic adventure in which Caliban gets the girl. Or does he?
And Featuring: our Outspoken Interview, an intimate one-on-one that delivers a wealth of insight, outrage, irreverence, and top-secret Caribbean spells.
Fire.
Elizabeth Hand
ISBN: 978-1-62963-234-6
5 by 7.5 • 128 pages
The title story, “Fire.” written especially for this volume, is a harrowing postapocalyptic adventure in a world threatened by global conflagration. Based on Hand’s real-life experience as a participant in a governmental climate change think tank, it follows a ragtag cadre of scientists and artists racing to save both civilization and themselves from fast-moving global fires.
“The Woman Men Didn’t See” is an expansion of Hand’s acclaimed critical assessment of author Alice Sheldon, who wrote award-winning SF as “James Tiptree, Jr.” in order to conceal identity from both the SF community and her CIA overlords. Another nonfiction piece, “Beyond Belief,” recounts her difficult passage from alienated teen to serious artist.
Also included are “Kronia,” a poignant time-travel romance, and “The Saffron Gatherers,” two of Hand’s favorite and less familiar stories. Plus: a bibliography and our candid and illuminating Outspoken Interview with one of today’s most inventive authors.
Clandestine Occupations
An Imaginary History
Diana Block
ISBN: 978-1-62963-121-9
5 by 8 • 256 pages
A radical activist, Luba Gold, makes the difficult decision to go underground to support the Puerto Rican independence movement. When Luba’s collective is targeted by an FBI sting, she escapes with her baby but leaves behind a sensitive envelope that is being safeguarded by a friend. When the FBI come looking for Luba, the friend must decide whether to cooperate in the search for the woman she loves. Ten years later, when Luba emerges from clandestinity, she discovers that the FBI sting was orchestrated by another activist friend who had become an FBI informant. In the changed era of the 1990s, Luba must decide whether to forgive the woman who betrayed her.
Told from the points of view of five different women who cross paths with Luba over four decades, Clandestine Occupations explores the difficult decisions that activists confront about the boundaries of legality and speculates about the scope of clandestine action in the future. It is a thought-provoking reflection on the risks and sacrifices of political activism as well as the damaging reverberations of disaffection and cynicism.
Damnificados
JJ Amaworo Wilson
ISBN: 978-1-62963-117-2
5 by 8 • 288 pages
Damnificados is loosely based on the real-life occupation of a half-completed skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela, the Tower of David. In this fictional version, six hundred “damnificados”—vagabonds and misfits—take over an abandoned urban tower and set up a community complete with schools, stores, beauty salons, bakeries, and a ragtag defensive militia. Their always heroic (and often hilarious) struggle for survival and dignity pits them against corrupt police, the brutal military, and the tyrannical “owners.”
Taking place in an unnamed country at an unspecified time, the novel has elements of magical realism: avenging wolves, biblical floods, massacres involving multilingual ghosts, arrow showers falling to the tune of Beethoven’s Ninth, and a trash truck acting as a Trojan horse. The ghosts and miracles woven into the narrative are part of a richly imagined world in which the laws of nature are constantly stretched and the past is always present.
“Should be read by every politician and rich bastard and then force-fed to them—literally, page by page.”
—Jimmy Santiago Baca, author of A Place to Stand
Fire on the Mountain
Terry Bisson with an Introduction by Mumia Abu-Jamal
ISBN: 978-1-60486-087-0
5 by 8 • 208 pages
It’s 1959 in socialist Virginia. The Deep South is an independent Black nation called Nova Africa. The second Mars expedition is about to touch down on the red planet. And a pregnant scientist is climbing the Blue Ridge in search of her great-great grandfather, a teenage slave who fought with John Brown and Harriet Tubman’s guerrilla army.
Long unavailable in the U.S., published in France as Nova Africa, Fire on the Mountain is the story of what might have happened if John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry had succeeded—and the Civil War had been started not by the slave owners but the abolitionists.
“History revisioned, turned inside out … Bisson’s wild and wonderful imagination has taken some strange turns to arrive at such a destination.”
—Madison Smartt Bell, Anisfield-Wolf Award winner and author of Devil’s Dream
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