Fiction & Literature

Editors: Beau Beausoleil and Deema Shehabi
This anthology begins with a historical introduction to al-Mutanabbi Street and includes the writing of Iraqis and international poets and writers who were outraged by the 2007, car bomb attack.

Kenneth Wishnia
Set in NYC during the early 1980s, this kick-ass and conscious crime novel was nominated for the Edgar and the Anthony Awards, and made Booklist's Best First Mystery.

Tomoyuki Hoshino
A man and woman find their genders and sexualities brought radically into question when their bodies sprout new parts, seemingly out of thin air.

Summer Brenner
Written in prose as stark and beautiful as New Mexico's landscape where violence bursts in starts and fits like the summer monsoons.

Nalo Hopkinson
“Report from Planet Midnight” takes on race and racism in literature. In “Message in a Bottle,” an American Indian who doesn't like children is befriended by a strange four-year-old, who seems wise beyond her years.

Sin Soracco
Edge City takes place in an every-noir-city (a thinly veiled portrait of San Francisco’s North Beach), and its newest resident is Reno, an angry fledgling just hatched out of prison.

Michael Moorcock
Perhaps Moorcock's most controversial work, "a tour de force" introducing Pyat, cocaine addict, sexual adventurer, and obsessive anti-Semite whose epic journey connects him with scoundrels and heroes from Trotsky to Makhno.

Michael Moorcock • Editor: Allan Kausch
The best of Moorcock's published, unpublished, and uncensored essays, articles, reviews, and opinions covering a wide range of subjects.

Marge Piercy
Originally published in 1970, Marge Piercy’s second novel follows the lives of four teenagers in a near-future society, as they rebel against a military draft and “the system.”

Nick Blinko
This semi-autobiographical novel from Rudimentary Peni singer, guitarist, lyricist, and illustrator Nick Blinko, plunges into the worlds of madness, suicide, and anarchist punk.

Marge Piercy
Originally published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercy's classic bookend to the '60s. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters, and victories of an extraordinary band of people.

James Kilgore
White ex-convict Cal Winter returns home one day to find his gorgeous, young, black wife, Prudence, drowned in the swimming pool. Prudence couldn’t swim and Cal concludes she didn’t go in the water willingly.

Cory Doctorow
The high-velocity adventures of a transhuman teenager in a toxic post-Disney dystopia, battling wireheads and wumpuses until he meets the girl of his dreams. Plus Cory's historic 2010 World SF Convention address.

G.W. Sok
With a foreword by John Robb, this book showcases the lyrics of G.W. Sok from The Ex.

Nick Mamatas
Love, Politics, Parasitic Manipulation. An underworld of radical political gestures and Internet organizing looking to overthrow a a ruling class it knows nothing about.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Two children are determined to enter "that possible even when unattainable space in which there is room for justice," leading to a violent and loving end. Plus a scorching essay on corporate publishing, and more.

Terry Bisson
These short stories cover all the territory—from his droll faux-FAQ’s done for Britain’s Science magazine, to the most seductive of his fantasies, to an eerie dreamlike evocation of the 9/11 that might have been.

Summer Brenner
Blend a spoonful of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist, a dash of Maupin's Tales of the City, and a few pinches of the Adventures of Lassie and you get a powerful, fast-moving novel for young and old alike.

Barry Graham
The dark ghost who haunts every blood-spattered crime scene in Phoenix does exist. "The Kid" has a love of cooking and reading with an appetite for violence, but he's ready to escape into the arms of the beautiful Vanjii.

Editors: Gary Phillips and Andrea Gibbons
An incendiary mix of original and out-of-print stories from the past, present and fearful future about the fight for a better world.

Akbar Ahmed
A collection of poetry from the man the BBC calls "the world's leading authority on contemporary Islam."

Derrick Weston Brown
Poet Derrick Weston Brown channels hip-hop, Toni Morrison, and Snagglepuss to make way for the shudder and eruption of wisdom.

Michael Harris
A gripping story with three lives colliding against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in LA.

Jim Nisbet
Jim Nisbet's hilarious, thrilling, and obscene novella, ripped straight from the zeitgeist of San Francisco in the '80s.

Michael Moorcock
Moorcock's most audacious creation, Jerry Cornelius—assassin, rock star, chronospy, and maybe-Messiah—is back with a time twisting odyssey. that connects '60s London with post-Obama America.