The story can’t be explained, it has to be lived through. We pick up clues as we go, trying out hypotheses, seeing them fail, trying again, just as the thief must weave his way toward an uncertain goal and recovery of his blocked memories, and the detective strives to make sense of events that seem entirely unconnected. In a universe of posthuman demigods, where the solar system was changed catastrophically by the Spike—“Jupiter is gone, eaten by a singularity, gravitational or technological or both, no one knows”—and life is followed by service as a cyborged Quiet, until rebirth is earned, where Time is the very currency, we read as if our future depended on it.
Which is, indeed, how science fiction felt, sometimes, during the boundary years 1985-2010, between the brief lurid explosion of cyberpunk and the deferred future everyone anticipated for the magical year 2000 and after. To repeat the insightful words that close David Pringle’s volume:
…all the best science fiction… deals with reality, not fantasy, and if some of the technological gimmickry... may seem far-fetched, it also serves, as would a set of distorting mirrors, to reflect ourselves and what is around us.
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WITH OVER 180 fantastic tattoo flash design inspirations. Artists include: Hannes Bok, Ed Emshwiller, Lee Brown Coye, Virgil Finlay, Jack Gaughan, Harry Clarke and other esteemed artists of 20th century fantastika.
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Musings and Meditations: Essays and Thoughts by Robert Silverberg (trade paper $18.95 ISBN: 978-1-933065-20-5; ebook available in August 2012)
A NEW COLLECTION of essays from one of contemporary science fiction’s most imaginative and acclaimed wordsmiths shows that Robert Silverberg’s nonfiction is as witty and original as his fiction. No cultural icon escapes his scrutiny, including fellow writers such as Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, H. P. Lovecraft, and Isaac Asimov.
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Steampunk Prime Edited by Mike Ashley. Kindle/Mobi DRM-free ebook.
Discover original steampunk tales in this anthology of stories written before there were actual rocketships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity. The modern day steampunk genre is a reinvention of the past through the eyes of its inventors and adventurers, but this collection is from real Victorians and Edwardians who saw the future potential of science and all its daring possibilities for progress and disasters. Edited by Mike Ashey, with a foreword by Paul di Fillipo and 16 New illustrations by Luis Ortiz.
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The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
$34.95 Hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-933065-22-9; ebook available in July 2012.)
A MASSIVE NEW COLLECTION OF 88 STORIES. Emshwiller’s fiction cuts a straight path through the landscape of American literary genres: mystery, speculative fiction, magic realism, western, slipstream, fantasy and of course science fiction. Arranged chronologically, this landmark collection, the first of two volumes, allows the reader to see Emshwiller’s development as a writer and easily recognize her as a major voice in the literary landscape.
“… offers not only hours of pleasure through its dozens of wonderful, magical stories, but also the rare joy of seeing a master’s work develop over decades.” – Strange Horizons
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Why New Yorkers Smoke edited by Luis Ortiz
(trade paper $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-933065-24-3; ebook available in September 2012)
SUBTITLED; New Yorkers Have Many Things to Fear: Real and Imagined. This collection of original stories answers the question “What is there to fear in New York City?,” with creative responses from Paul di Filippo, Scott Edelman, Carol Emshwiller, Lawrence Greenberg, Gay Partington Terry, Don Webb, and Barry Malzberg, among others. The contributors represent a combination of New Yorkers, ex-New Yorkers, and wannabe New Yorkers, and their tales of fear all use the city as an ominous backdrop. Blending the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, the stories in this anthology showcase work from up-and-coming writers as well as veterans of fantastical fiction.
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Cult Magazines: From A to Z, A Compendium of Culturally Obsessive & Curiously Expressive Publications Edited by Earl Kemp & Luis Ortiz
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FEATURING FULL-COLOR reproductions of hundreds of distinctive cult magazine cover images, this reference’s backgrounds, histories, and essays offer a complete picture of a bygone era. Fully illustrated in color.
“Contains a wealth of arcane information about many of the oddball magazines that once graced newsstands.” — New York Times Book Review
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Other Spaces, Other Times: A Life Spent in the Future by Robert Silverberg
$29.95 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-933065-12-0
A COLLECTION of autobiographical writings. Fully illustrated, partial color.
“There is a strong case to be made that SFWA Grand Master Robert Silverberg is the living, beating heart at the center of science fiction…” – Syfy.com
“For all [science fiction] devotees and novelists in training who relished Stephen King’s similarly autobiographical On Writing.” —Libraryjournal.com
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Meeting The Dog Girls: Stories by Gay Partington Terry. (ISBN 978-1933065-30-4; Trade paperback, $14.95. Also available in Kindle and Epub format.)
A THIEF, languishing in prison for stealing moments, escapes and becomes a chronometric fugitive. Women wait in a long, endless line, night and day, without knowing what is at the beginning of the line. An otherworldly marble called the Ustek Cloudy passes through the hands of Ambrose Bierce, Amelia Earhart, and D. B. Cooper just before they each disappears off the face of the earth. Whether they are called fantasy, magical realism, science fiction, or brilliant parodies, the stories in this collection—the first from Gay Terry—blend the real and the fantastic in an imaginative and mischievous way. Written in the tradition of Ray Bradbury, Angela Carter, and Neil Gaiman, these contemporary fables present remarkable characters trapped in unusual situations.
Gay Terry has published stories in the Fortean Bureau, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Twilight Zone Magazine, Full Spectrum, and other journals. She lives in New York City.
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Library of American Artists
Vol. 1: Arts Unknown: The Life & Art of Lee Brown Coye by Luis Ortiz; $39.95 hardcover. Fully illustrated, in color. ISBN: 978-1-933065-04-4
“A must for lovers of the weird and fantastic.” — Publishers Weekly
“A smashingly beautiful book … reading this fine biography is like riding a train through the history of three-quarters of the 20th century, and seeing Coye’s monsters through every window.” —Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
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The Art & Life of Ed & Carol Emshwiller by Luis Ortiz; $39.95 hardcover ISBN: 978-1-933065-08-3
“… fascinating .... a must have for anyone interested in SF art, writing, and history.” – LOCUS
A 2008 Hugo Award nominee and Locus Award finalist. Fully illustrated, in color.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Ender’s Game (1985)
Radio Free Albemuth (1985)
Always Coming Home (1985)
This Is the Way the World Ends (1985)
Galápagos (1985)
The Falling Woman (1986)
The Shore of Women (1986)
A Door Into Ocean (1986)
Soldiers of Paradise (1987)
Life During Wartime (1987)
The Sea and Summer (1987)
Cyteen (1988)
Neverness (1988)
The Steerswoman (1989)
Grass (1989)
Use of Weapons (1990)
Queen of Angels (1990)
Barrayar (1991)
Synners (1991)
Sarah Canary (1991)
White Queen (1991)
Eternal Light (1991)
Stations of the Tide (1991)
Timelike Infinity (1992)
Dead Girls (1992)
Jumper (1992)
China Mountain Zhang (1992)
Red Mars (1992)
A Fire Upon the Deep (1992)
Aristoi (1992)
Doomsday Book (1992)
Parable of the Sower (1993)
Ammonite (1993)
Chimera (1993)
Nightside the Long Sun (1993)
Brittle Innings (1994)
Permutation City (1994)
Blood (1994)
Mother of Storms (1995)
Sailing Bright Eternity (1995)
Galatea 2.2 (1995)
The Diamond Age (1995)
The Transmigration of Souls (1996)
The Fortunate Fall (1996)
The Sparrow/Children of God (1996/1998)
Holy Fire (1996)
Night Lamp (1996)
In the Garden of Iden (1997)
Forever Peace (1997)
Glimmering (1997)
As She Climbed Across the Table (1997)
The Cassini Division (1998)
Bloom (1998)
Vast (1998)
The Golden Globe (1998)
Headlong (1999)
Cave of Stars (1999)
Genesis (2000)
Super-Cannes (2000)
Under the Skin (2000)
Perdido Street Station (2000)
Distance Haze (2000)
Revelation Space trilogy (2000)
Salt (2000)
Ventus (2001)
The Cassandra Complex (2001)
Light (2002)
Altered Carbon (2002)
The Separation (2002)
The Golden Age (2002)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)
Natural History (2003)
The Labyrinth Key / Spears of God
River of Gods (2004)
The Plot Against America (2004)
Never Let Me Go (2005)
The House of Storms (2005)
Counting Heads (2005)
Air (Or, Have Not Have) (2005)
Accelerando (2005)
Spin (2005)
My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time (2006)
The Road (2006)
Temeraire /His Majesty’s Dragon (2006)
Blindsight (2006)
HARM (2007)
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)
The Secret City (2007)
In War Times (2007)
Postsingular (2007)
Shadow of the Scorpion (2008)
The Hunger Games trilogy (2008-2010)
Little Brother (2008)
The Alchemy of Stone (2008)
The Windup Girl (2009)
Steal Across the Sky(2009)
Boneshaker (2009)
Zoo City (2010)
Zero History (2010)
The Quantum Thief (2010)
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