Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists. This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive author at the height of her powers. Included in...
Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But thirty years later she is adrift, on her way dow...
In the Victorian Age, a mysterious and irresistible woman becomes entwined in the lives of several artists, both as a muse and as the object of all-consuming obsession. Radborne Comstock, one of the early twentieth century's most brilliant young painters, is helpless under her dangerous spell. In...
There's this quite famous New Zealand photographer, whose work moves me, physically and emotionally. She has often taken sexuality as her theme, and in one series turned her lens on men - a man ejaculating, a naked man's bum peppered with little paper cut-out cupids, a man in a fencing mask; all ...
The privileged daughter of famous television actors, Charlotte, "Lit, " Moylan is ready to enjoy one last wild fling before college and adulthood. In fact, the whole idyllic hamlet of Kamensic, New York, is ready to party, for legendary avant-garde film director--and Lit's godfather--Alex Kern is...
I want to like it. Really, I do. I love Elizabeth Hand's two books Black Light and Waking the Moon (especially the latter). Winterlong is a different sort of book.This is the type of sci-fi where you're dropped into a world you know nothing about and immediately expected to hit the ground running...
From the author of the breakout bestseller "Waking the Moon," comes this stunning millennial thriller It is 1999. The Last Days -- some say; the First, say others. The climate has altered irrevocably, the cities have imploded into vicious shards and the stars haven't been seen for months. The sky...
The energumens, creatures who are the result of centuries of genetic engineering, threaten to come to earth to lead the other bioengineered slave races in a war against humanity.
Four centuries after the Third Shining the Orsinas rule absolute in the domed city-state of Araboth. A fortress built at the ocean's edge, Araboth protects its citizens from the presumed horrors of Outside. But now the predictions of Araboth's collapse seem near fulfillment. As the Prince of Stor...
We’ve got another first today! This is the first book I’ve read based on a screenplay. There were some good things and some not so good things. This book is only 220 pages so it was a quick read.From the publisher:Beneath the tranquil surface of a North Texas town, the future of the human race wa...
I shut my eyes and imagined us in the close darkness of the attic, the toy theater tossing its phantom starlight on our bodies as we moved together, like some strange articulated toy. "What's going on?" We sat up so violently our jaws cracked. The copy of Twelfth Night spun across the floor, to w...
Well, okay—he never called it that. But something to do with the dark arts. “Magick” with a K, that Aleister Crowley bullshit. So fucking pretentious. Most of Crowley’s quote-unquote magick was just a way of getting laid—he was a total con man. If you can read his stuff with a straight face, you’...
He yanked back on the throttle. At the same time he opened the stop to feed it as much fuel as possible. With a garbled roar, the swoop shot forward. Laser fire and explosions rocked the air around Boba. Below him, the spines waited. “Master…help…!”...
1957) is the award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy titles such as Winterlong, Waking the Moon, Black Light, and Glimmering, as well as the thrillers Generation Loss and Available Dark. She is commonly regarded as one of the most poetic writers working in speculative fiction and horr...
APRIL-OCTOBER 1978 EVERYTHING PRETTY MUCH went to hell after the trip to New York. Clea was pissed I’d screwed things up with Anna’s gallery. I was pissed she’d shown my pictures without asking me first. Three months later, we were still fighting over it. “What’d you think, you were going to take...
It received my favorite rejection letter of all time: the editor of Weird Tales turned it down because he found it “bizarre.” Wow, I thought, I’ve written something that’s too weird for Weird Tales. Kamensic Village is the fictionalized version of the small town where I grew up in northern Westch...
Whatever awaited him below, the impact was the same. His right leg buckled and a bolt of pain flared from ankle to knee, so that even after decades he woke with his old injury throbbing, bathed in sweat and hands outstretched to restore his balance. The pain subsided as the hours passed. Still, h...