Telling the Map

Author	Vandana Singh
ISBN	1618731432

I recently had something of a revelation about myself that's going to sound silly, but which has reframed the way I think about books and other media I consume: I don't actually care that much about plot.

I care about ideas. I care about characters. I care about theme and atmosphere. I care about...

Author	Ellen Klages
ISBN	1616962615

The award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea returns with smart and subversive new tales

A rebellious child identifies with Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry share one last morning on Earth. A solitary woman inherits a penny arcade haunted by a beautiful...

Author	Mary Rickert
ISBN	1618731106

Open this book to any page and find yourself enspelled by these lush, alchemical stories. Faced with the uncanny and the impossible, Rickert’s protagonists are as painfully, shockingly, complexly human as the readers who will encounter them. Mothers, daughters, witches, artists, strangers,...

Author	Sofia Samatar
ISBN	1618731262

This is a beautiful, original, often surprising, and yes, tender, short story collection by a fantastic author. Samatar’s novels are lovely, but I think she may excel even more in the short story format, which combines her exquisite writing with compressed plots that necessarily move briskly....

Author	Janet Kagan
ISBN	0812509935

On the distant planet of Mirabile, a settlement of human colonists from Earth is jeopardized by genetic mutants of Earth plants and animals, and it is up to ecological troubleshooter Mama Jason to destroy the menacing mutants. Reprint.

Contents:
The Loch Moose Monster (1989)
The...

Author	Jeffrey Ford
ISBN	1930846398

Mixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results—a young musician perceives another world while drinking coffee, a fairy chronicles his busy life in a sandcastle during the changing tide,...

Author	Paul Kearney
ISBN	0575057130

A different kingdom of wolves, woods and stranger, darker, creatures lies in wait for Michael Fay in the woods at the bottom of his family's farm.

Michael Fay is a normal boy, living with his grandparents on their family farm in rural Ireland. In the woods there are wolves; and other things, dangerous...

Author	Bruce Coville
ISBN	0152024654

Beloved for his hilarious and unexpectedly moving novels, Bruce Coville is also a master of the short story. In this follow-up to Oddly Enough, he again presents a collection of unusual breadth and emotional depth. A ghost who died under uproarious circumstances haunts a kitchen baking “Biscuits...

Author	Robert Aickman
ISBN	1681371898

Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described “strange stories” remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of...

Author	Jonathan Carroll
ISBN	0312146981

In questo post booksblog.it ci rimanda all’articolo di Stephen King pubblicato dal New York Times, What Ails the Short Story. King, curatore della raccolta Best American Short Stories 2007, ci parla dello status del racconto negli Stati Uniti e di cosa lui cerca in un racconto, in qualità di lettore.

King...

Author	Karen Joy Fowler
ISBN	0345426533

Gifted novelist Fowler ( Sarah Canary and The Sweetheart Season ) delights in the arcane, and as a result, these 15 clever tales are occasionally puzzling but never dull.

In the long title story, "Black Glass", temperance activist Carry Nation is resurrected in the 1990s ("We're talking...

Author	Orson Scott Card
ISBN	0812523679

The final volume of the acclaimed Maps in a Mirror collection includes ten fables and fantasies: "Unaccompanied Sonata", "A Cross-Country Trip to Kill Richard Nixon", "The Porcelain Salamander", "Middle Woman", "The Bully and the Beast", "Sandmagic", "A Plague of Butterflies", "The Monkeys",...

Author	Alex White
ISBN	1781084661

Loxley Fiddleback can see the dead, but the problem is... the dead can see her.

Ghosts have always been cruel to Loxley Fiddleback - but none more than the spirit of her only friend, alive only hours earlier. Loxley isn’t equipped to solve a murder: she lives near the bottom of a cutthroat,...

Author	Clifford Beal
ISBN	1781080844

He came back to kill a tyrant. He found the Devil instead. An amazing historical novel with a supernatural twist set after the English Civil War. This is the stunning debut from Clifford Beal.

He came back to kill a tyrant. He found the Devil instead.

1653: The long and bloody English...

Author	Maxim Loskutoff
ISBN	0393357015

In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into civil war. Against this backdrop, Maxim Loskutoff shatters the myths of the West: a lonesome trapper falls in love with a bear; a newly married woman hatches a plot to murder a tree; and...

Author	Alfian Sa'at
ISBN	9810718012

Malay Sketches is a collection of stories that borrows its name from a book of anecdotes by colonial governor Frank Swettenham, describing Malay life on the Peninsula. In Alfian Sa’at’s hands, these sketches are reimagined as flash fictions that record the lives of members of the Malay community...

Author	Mimi Marinucci
ISBN	1848134754

Feminism is Queer is an introduction to the intimately related disciplines of gender and queer theory. While guiding the reader through complex theory, the author develops the original position of “queer feminism,” which presents queer theory as continuous with feminist theory. While there...

Author	Rick Wilber
ISBN	0765332906

Peter Holman is a freelance sweeper. The year 2030 sees a new era in social media with sweepcasting, a multisensory interface that can convey every thought, touch, smell, sight, and sound, immersing the audience in another person's experience.

By fate, chance, or some darker design, Peter...

Author	A.M. Dellamonica
ISBN	0765319489

The sequel to Indigo Springs, "A psychologically astute, highly original debut—complex, eerie, and utterly believable." —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

This powerful sequel to the A.M. Dellamonica's Sunburst Award–winning contemporary fantasy Indigo Springs starts in the...

Author	James K. Morrow
ISBN	1616961597

In the golden era of sci-fi TV, why were alien crustaceans so darned literal? Beloved 1950's star Uncle Wonder must create the ultimately irreverent television show — or crayfish from outer space will inflict their death-ray on an unsuspecting viewership.

It is New York City, 1953. The...

Author	Simone Zelitch
ISBN	0765382962

Simone Zelitch has created an amazing alternate history in Judenstaat. On April 4th, 1948 the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony, bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.

Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary...

Author

Matt Bell

A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a veil of forgetfulness. The story of Red Riding Hood is run through a potentially endless series of iterations. A father...