Books from Small Beer Press
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What I Didn't See: Stories
By Karen Joy FowlerThe men just woke up one morning to find Joe and Cleveland's cots stripped bare and Cleveland's cactus missing from the windowsill, without a word said, but Wilt told me they'd been caught doing something they didn't think was sex, ...
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In Other Lands
By Sarah Rees BrennanGeorgia Peach Award Nominee • Florida Teens Read Award Nominee • ABC Best Books for Young Readers • Bank Street College Best Children’s Books of the Year • A Junior Library Guild Selection • Hugo & Locus award finalist In Other ...
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A Natural History of Hell: Stories
By Jeffrey FordThe den was deep and at its center was a crystal fountain like a tree growing, dripping water from every glistening branch into a surrounding pond. The thing reached nearly to the ceiling of the enormous cavern.
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Spider in a Tree
By Susan StinsonMr. Edwards seemed to be expecting something, but Joseph had no idea what. “Would you like to come in, sir?” Mr.Edwards stepped back and straightened his neck.“Ineed air before mylecture. Wouldyoulike toaccompany me forastroll around ...
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Questionable Practices: Stories
By Eileen GunnThere were dozens of flier- Brain pairs,and she'd put a markby each one,and identified a good quarterofthem. Including, shewas particularly pleasedto see, allthebigguys— Eszterhazy, Spindizzy, Blockhead O'Brien, Stackerlee Brown.
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Earth and Air: Tales of Elemental Creatures
By Peter DickinsonIn these collection, you will find stories that range from the mythic to contemporary fantasy to science fiction.
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Young Woman in a Garden: Stories
By Delia ShermanHere are the lives that make up larger histories, here are tricksters and gardeners, faeries and musicians, all glittering and sparkling, finding beauty and hope and always unexpected, a touch of wild magic.
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Howard Who?: Stories
By Howard Waldrop“If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you.”—From the Introduction by George R.R. Martin Acclaimed cult author Waldrop's stories are sophisticated, magical recombinations of the stuff our pop-culture dreams are made of.
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Fountain of Age: Stories
By Nancy KressMere thoughts could not send a bolt of energy through a distant man's body. But the bolt itself wasn't a “cooked-up” idea. It had happened. Henry had felt it. DiBella had said that Henry's MRI looked completely normal.
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The Invisible Valley: a novel
By Su Wei... With pent-up rage and savage spite The wind declaims its sorrow all night, Arresting my spirit's homeward flight— In my arbor, I knew not this awful sound. —That's from Nara's “Song of Long Yearning,” Autumn said. You like it too?
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A Stranger in Olondria: a novel
By Sofia SamatarA Stranger in Olondria is a skillful and immersive debut fantasy novel that pulls the reader in deeper and deeper with twists and turns reminiscent of George R. R. Martin and Joe Hill.
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Tender: Stories
By Sofia SamatarThe first collection of short fiction from a rising star whose stories have been anthologized in the first two volumes of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series and nominated for many awards.
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The Winged Histories: a novel
By Sofia SamatarUsing the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history. Here is the much-anticipated companion novel to Sofia Samatar’s World Fantasy Award-winning debut, A Stranger in Olondria.
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The Chemical Wedding: by Christian Rosencreutz: A Romance in Eight Days by Johann Valentin Andreae in a New Version
By John CrowleyOften described as an alchemical allegory, John Crowley instead decided this is “the first science fiction novel.” After all “it’s fiction; it’s about the possibilities of a science; and it’s a novel.” No matter what else it ...
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And Go Like This: Stories
By John CrowleyIn the thirteen stories collected here, Crowley sets his imagination free to roam from a 20th century Shakespeare festival to spring break at a future Yale in his Edgar Award winning story “Spring Break”.
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At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories
By Kij JohnsonThese stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and The Secret History of Fantasy.
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The River Bank: A sequel to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
By Kij JohnsonPraise for Kij Johnson: “The Fox Woman immediately sets the author in the front rank of today’s novelists.” —Lloyd Alex-ander “Johnson has a singular vision and I’m going to be borrowing (stealing) from her.” —Sherman Alexie ...
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An A to Z of the Fantastic City: A Guidebook for Readers and Explorers
By Hal DuncanIn 1927, Fritz Lang took a film crew into the city of Metropolis, intending to document from every possible angle the growth of Futurism, the ideology which showed every sign of doing to America what Fascism and Communism had already ...
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Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories
By Maureen F. McHughSpencer's is shoplifter paradise, so they've got really good security. There's this chubby guy in the back, putting up merchandise and sweating up a storm. There are the cameras. There's a girl at the front cash register who is bored ...
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Terra Nullius: a novel
By Claire G. ColemanFamilies are torn apart. Reeducation is enforced. This rich land will provide for all. This is not the Australia we know. This is not the Australia of the history books. Terra Nullius is something new, but all too familiar.