Fiction & Literature

Paul Park
Four pieces of Park's innovative science fiction along with an essay and interview.

Michael Fine
Julia, an American medical doctor fleeing her privileged background, and Carl whose experiences as a black man in the U.S. led him to volunteer in Africa come together as Liberia is gripped in a brutal civil war.

Rachel Pollack
A colorful mix of science fiction, magic realism, memoir, and myth exploring themes of spirituality and transformation. Courage and cowardice contend in a literary odyssey unlike any other.

Editor: Iain McIntyre
This anthology brings forth the lost voices of Hobohemia.

Bartolomeo Vanzetti • Editor: Jon Curley This work features a never-before-published short story by this famous anarchist and victim of legal persecution, xenophobia, and condemnation for his radical politics.

Michael Blumlein
The politics and terrors of biotech, human engineering, and brain science are given startling fictional form in a selection of short stories with a mix of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and wicked humor.

G.H. Mosson and Marcus Colasurdo
Heart X-rays is a twenty-first-century beat epic poem that ranges across landscapes and voices while exploring the mystery we call the human heart.

Samuel R. Delany
A suspenseful and vivid historical narrative, an essay combining scholarly research with personal experience in the story of the first major African American author in sci-fi, and more.

Editors: Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette
The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction.

Kenneth Wishnia
Wishnia construye una novela rica en paisajes, sonidos y peligros de Ecuador, además provee una mirada irresistible sobre las raíces de una de las heroínas más dinámicas del género ficción criminal.

John Crowley
A wry how-to guide for building utopias out of the leftovers of modern science fiction.

Victor Serge • Editor and translator: James Brook
Like Serge’s extraordinary novels, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule.

Elizabeth Hand
A harrowing postapocalyptic adventure in a world threatened by global conflagration.

John King
Set against a background of pirate radio stations, pink Cadillacs, and freeway dreams, White Trash insists there is no such thing as white trash.

John King
Headhunters is the story of five friends. Of London, rooted in its streets, workplaces, pubs and music, but a parallel society exists, where the planet’s wealthy are able to buy and sell whatever they like.

Pino Cacucci • Illustrator: Flavio Costantini
A fascinating dramatized fiction of the life and times of Jules Bonnot, his "gang," and associates, the individualist anarchists of the time, including the young Victor Serge.

Pedro de Paz • Afterword: Stuart Christie
Using the detective novel as a literary device, de Paz explores various scenarios that provide believable explanations about the chain of events leading to the death of a truly remarkable man.

Joe R. Lansdale
This book features new fiction starring Lansdale’s unlikely best friends Hap and Leonard, along with some of Lansdale’s most famous and hard-to-find Texas Observer columns.

Mark Van Steenwyk • Illustrator: Joel Hedstrom
This retelling of the legend of Saint Francis and the Wolf explores what it means to be a peacemaker in the midst of violence and how to restore our relationship with creation.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin gives voice to objects that may not speak a human language but communicate with us nevertheless through and about the seasonal rhythms of the earth, the minute and the vast, the ordinary and the mythological.

JJ Amaworo Wilson
In an unnamed country at an unspecified time, this novel has mixes magical realism into the narrative of a richly imagined world in which the laws of nature are constantly stretched and the past is always present.

Diana Block
Told from the points of view of five women over four decades, this book explores the difficult decisions and confrontations made at the boundaries of legality and speculates about the scope of clandestine action in the future.

Carter Scholz
A small band of renegade scientists crowd-sources Earth's first starship in a desperate attempt to escape global catastrophe. And more!

John King
The Football Factory is a graphic and disturbing, at times funny tale of modern-day pariahs, people reduced to statistics by years of hypocritical, self-serving party politics. It is about the insulted, marginalised, unseen.

John King
Human Punk is the story of punk, a story of friendship, a story of common bonds and a shared cultured—sticking the boot in, sticking together.