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A new edition celebrating the 400th anniversary of one of the most outlandish stories in Western literature. With new illustrations.

The 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. Some of Samatars weird and tender fabulations spring from her life and her literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void.Praise for Sofia Samatars Books:The excerpt from Sofia Samatars compelling novel A Stranger in Olondria should be enough to make you run out and buy the book. Just dont overlook her short Selkie Stories Are for Losers, the best story about loss and love and selkies Ive read in years. K. Tempest Bradford, NPRAn imaginative, poetic, and dark meditation on how history gets made. Hello BeautifulPleasantly startling and unexpected. Her prose is by turns sharp and sumptuous, and always perfectly controlled. . . . There are strains here too of Jane Austen and something wilder.Publishers Weekly (starred review)Like an alchemist, Sofia Samatar spins golden landscapes and dazzling sentences. Shelf Awareness (starred review)Beauty, wonder, and a soaring paean to the power of story.Jason Heller, NPRHighly recommended. N. K. Jemisin, New York Times Book ReviewSofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories. She has written for the Guardian, Strange Horizons, and Clarkesworld, among others, and has won the John W. Campbell Award, the Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. She lives in Virginia.

A sheikh funds a psycholinguist's research into the language abilities of a chimp. A chimp who then witnesses a murder.

Two short novels starring lovable chefs Rickey and G-man, living and cooking in pre-Katrina New Orleans.

Henry Sullivan makes his living as a book hound. When an ex-lover is murdered, he mounts an unofficial investigation that leads him through the murky depths of Boston's literary world.

Can a twelfth-century Cambodian king's sense of compassion and justice translate to the present?

Torn from the life she knew, honed as a weapon, she's lost all her privileges except one.

LA Times/Ray Bradbury Prize finalist Nineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Chos Crawford Award winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award winner If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again. A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian. A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and eating people. An earth spirit gets entangled in protracted negotiations with an annoying landlord, and Chang E spins off into outer space, the ultimate metaphor for the Chinese diaspora.

¿ Includes a number of unpublished stories ¿ New stories to be placed this year in run up to publication ¿ Debut collection from a respected and well-connected author ¿ Build our support from Raleigh, to NC, to SIBA, to national

Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales all gathered together in one fabulous bundle.

An unexpected story of a woman's life and love living in the old American west.

An immersive, rich collection from an author whose work reaches across time and continents to explore unexpected and untold stories.

Planted deeply in the dark, musical fantastic heart of American storytelling, Cotman's half dozen tales are ripe for the picking.

A book of stories of how uncertainly we move through space and time by ourselves and with others.

Winner of the Tiptree Award and a Mythopoeic Award finalist, Cloud & Ashes is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic fable that invites revisitation.Praise for Cloud & Ashes:"e;A rich poetic prose laden with fetching archaisms that's unlike anything else being written today. Brilliant and truly innovative fiction, not to be missed."e;—The Washington TimesGreer Gilman is the author of Moonwise. A graduate of Wellesley and the University of Cambridge, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She likes to quip that she does everything James Joyce ever did, only backward and in high heels.

Fiction that will inspire you to blow open the doors and kick out those supposedly in charge.

Four children confront dark elemental forces in the Pulitzer Prize finalist's first book for young readers.

Andy Duncan has shamelessly told flat-out made-up stories for twenty years, and this book right here is the evidence!

Stories that sometimes begin in the hills of Kentucky and head out into complicated and sometimes hopeful futures.