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A heart-wrenching, Nebula Award–winning alternative history imagining an intersection between the Radium Girls scandal and Topsy the elephant. Early in the twentieth century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately and publicly put to death by electricity. These are matters of historical fact. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternative history of rage, radioactivity, and wrongs crying out to be righted. Brace yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling cruelties both grand and petty while searching for meaning and justice. Praise for The Only Harmless Great Thing Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette Finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Awards “The Only Harmless Great Thing . . . feels like an alternate Just So Story revealed to us by an ecstatic punk oracle. I can’t stop thinking about it. Nor will you.” —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk “This handcrafted arrow of a novella becomes more absorbing with each read. . . . A rich, poetic novella.” —Kirkus Reviews
From the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, who "shares literary DNA with Le Guin" (John Scalzi). After the world's end, the last young human learns a final lesson from Earth's remaining animals. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The idea that women are dangerous – individually or collectively – runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant set of questions about the dynamics, conflicts, identities and power relations with which women live today. The Art of Being Dangerous offers many different images of women, some humorous, some challenging, some well-known, some forgotten, but all unique. In a dazzling variety of creative forms, artists and writers of diverse identities explore what it means to be a dangerous woman. With almost 100 evocative images, this collection showcases an array of contemporary art that highlights the staggering breadth of talent among today’s female ...
HERE BE DRAGONS... A unique collection of stories by the greatest fantasy writers working today.
A librarian helps a desperate student find the door into a book; Sir Thomas Moore’s head is stolen and a messy rescue ensues; a mother sells a piece of her memory so her daughter can afford an education. Science fiction is the story of what if and what comes next. It’s more playful, more inclusive and more entertaining than it has ever been before and as the world falls apart around us, it offers us a chance to understand how things could be better, or just how a great story can get us through another night. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen brings together the very best clashes between zombies and unicorns, robots and fairies, spaceships and more in a def...
Nick Prasad is piecing his life together since the Anomaly, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity – including his former friend Johnny. Right on cue, the unveiling of Johnny’s latest experiment sees more portals opened to Them, and the two of them are thrown together to fight the darkness once more…
Resistance. Revolution. Standing up and demanding to have your space, your say, your right to be. From small acts of defiance to protests that shut down cities, Do Not Go Quietly is an anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories about those who resist. Within this anthology, we will chronicle the fight for what is just and right, and what that means: from leading revolutions to the simple act of saying “No.” Resistance can be a small act of everyday defiance. And other times, resistance means massive movements that topple governments and become iconic historical moments. Either way, there is power in these acts, and the contributors in Do Not Go Quietly will harness that power...
In this paranormal thriller set in coastal Maine, a reluctant medium and a mystical drug dealer team up against an apocalyptic conspiracy. Paul had been a forensic psychologist before his daughter’s death sent him on the downward spiral of addiction—and brought an unwelcome ability to hear the voices of the dead. He fled New York for a houseboat in Oceanrest, Maine. Since then, he’s been trying to shake off his past and silence the spirits with a regular supply of magical downers. Paul’s dealer Deirdre lives on the outskirts of Oceanrest, where she tends to a hydroponic farm of mystic flora and esoteric plant life. She’s built a good business as a not-quite-legal apothecary. But when someone robs her stash, Deirdre and Paul are equally desperate to find it. Soon they find themselves under attack from criminals and cultists, on the run from Quebecois mobsters, Aryan Nationalists, and a group of young men who seem dedicated to destruction on an apocalyptic scale.
The March/April 2019 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Karen Osborne, Tina Connolly, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Marie Brennan, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and A.T. Greenblatt. Reprinted fiction by Aliette de Bodard, essays by Tracy Townsend, Briana Lawrence, Marissa Lingen, and Suzanne Walker, poetry by Beth Cato, D.A. Xaolin Spires, Cassandra Khaw, Sandi Liebowitz, and Chloe N. Clark, interviews withBonnie Jo Stufflebeam and A.T. Greenblatt by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Christopher Jones, and an editorial by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.