Headcrash

Author	Joan Didion
ISBN	0374521727

My mother was a freshman in college when I was a freshman in high school. Married at seventeen, her 1960s and 70s were spent as a young wife and mother of four. It wasn't until she divorced at thirty-six, the same year Ronald Reagan ushered in the folly of trickle-down economics and the prison-industrial...

Author	Alastair Reynolds
ISBN	0441015131

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SF will not become SciFi: "Galactic North" by Alastair Reynolds



Is SF becoming SciFi? I hope not.

Dumbing down is the order of the day. Our marketing and publishing departments no longer want to...

Author	Nick Bostrom
ISBN	0199678111

The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains.

If machine brains one day come to surpass human...

Author

Alastair Reynolds

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.

2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch...

Author	Bruce Sterling
ISBN	0441003702

Schismatrix Plus, is Bruce Sterling's new trade paperback. For the first time in one volume: every word Bruce Sterling has ever written on the Shapers-Mechanists Universe.

In the last decade, Sterling has emerged a pioneer of crucial, cutting-edge science fiction. Now Ace Books is proud...

Author	Gene Wolfe
ISBN	0765302942

A distinguished compilation of two classic fantasy novels, Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Areté, in one volume

This omnibus of two acclaimed novels is the story of Latro, a Roman mercenary who while fighting in Greece received a head injury that deprived him of his short-term memory but...

Author

Thomas Williams

In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas Williams. Yet only Stone's Dog Soldiers is still remembered today. That oversight is startling when considering the literary impact of The Hair of Harold Roux. A dazzlingly crafted novel-within-a-novel...

Author	Alastair Reynolds
ISBN	0575075163

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into interstellar space . . . Alastair Reynolds burst onto the SF scene with the Arthur C. Clarke Award-shortlisted REVELATION SPACE, British Science Fiction Award-winning CHASM CITY, and REDEMPTION ARK. Now experience the phenomenal imagination and breathtaking...

Author	Gill Sims
ISBN	0008237492

Why Mummy Drinks is the brilliant novel from Gill Sims, the author of the online sensation Peter and Jane.


Boy Child Peter, Girl Child Jane and Daddy have exciting adventures with Mummy. Daddy likes gadgets. Peter and Jane like starting fires, trying to kill each other and driving Mummy...

Author

Richard Raven

By popular demand, the third volume in our bestselling anthology series, twenty-one spine-chilling, terrifyingly creepy tales of terror by a bunch of the best independent horror authors writing today!
Featuring horror stories – and shopping lists – from: Richard Raven, Dhinoj Dings,...

Author	Eric S. Brown
ISBN	1642558605

An Epic Fantasy tale of action, adventure, heroism, horror and sorcery…

Beyond Night is a Dark Fantasy Horror novel that pulls back the veil of nearly two thousand years of jaded history. Come trod in the bloody footprints left by monsters, soldiers and wizards and behold what lies hidden...

Author	Mike Mignola
ISBN	1616559640

Forty years after disaster left Lower Manhattan submerged in thirty feet of water, the Drowning City has taken a turn for the weird, and Joe Golem is there to investigate. A mysterious and terrifying creature has been snatching children and pulling them into the depths of the canals, and those that drowned...

Author

Douglas Draa

Weirdbook returns! Here are great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre...
The River Flows to Nowhere, by John R. Fultz
The Amnesiac’s Lament, by Scott R Jones
Trance Junkie, by Bruno Lombardi
Bad Faith, by Will Blinn
Dwelling of the Wolf, by Franklyn...

Author

Rayne Hall

Do you want a daily dose of inspiration to carry your novel plot forward? Conventional lists of writing prompts are great for starting new projects, but don't work if you're already well into a story with developed characters and an ongoing plot. This book can help.

Whether you seek to boost...

Author

Douglass Draa

Weirdbook returns with another jam-packed issue full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are:

-Iconoclasm, by Adrian Cole
-Have a Crappy Halloween, by Franklyn Searight
-Early Snow, by Samson Stormcrow Hayes
-The Dollhouse, by Glynn Owen Barrass
-Elle...

Author	John Wyndham
ISBN	0140031219

Cover Artist: Harry Willock

Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of...

Author

Edward Dusinberre

'They are not for you but for a later age!' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets.Tackling the Beethoven quartets is a rite of passage that has shaped the Takács Quartet's work together for over forty years. Using the history of the composition and first performances of the quartets as the backbone...

Author	Gale E. Christianson
ISBN	0803264100

Loren Eiseley challenges us to this day with his uneasy interpretation of humanity's place in the world. The haunting melancholy that pervades much of Eiseley's work grew out of a loveless childhood in which he spent much time alone in the natural world. His mother was mentally ill and his father,...