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OKPsyche

Author : Anya Johanna DeNiro

Publisher : Small Beer Press

Page : 107 pages

File Size : 44,82 MB

Release : 2023-09-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1618732099

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"A chronicle of hope and hurt and freedom, suffused with anxiety and grace, and told in prose that just won’t quit. It’s major. You’ll remember where you were when you read it.” — Isaac Fellman, author of Dead Collections In this playful and aching short novel, an unnamed trans woman is on an epic journey to find the place where she belongs. As she navigates her many realities, she must wrestle with anxieties and fears about the world. Her son and her ex live in another state. Environmental disasters are being outsourced to the Midwest. She can’t decide whether or not to unbox the companion automaton under her bed. And some of her friends may not just be ghosting her, they might not even be real. OKPsyche is a fever-pitched odyssey through the joys, fears, and weirdness of trans adulthood, parenthood, and selfhood in the contemporary world.



Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 47

Author : Kelly Link

Publisher : Small Beer Press

Page : 112 pages

File Size : 31,39 MB

Release : 2023-09-19

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1618732153

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LCRW 47, the May, the June, the July, the August, the September of this year issue. Made by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link. As in my LCRW 46 note, I am chronically ill and limited compared to the previous times. I’m still planning (hoping? how zine-esque of me) on two issues of this zine this year. But we have two books coming, Anya’s (OKPsyche) and Kij’s (The Privilege of the Happy Ending) — two writers from the Twin Cities, how unexpected — which is enough to keep me busy and then Kathleen Jennings’s January collection, Kindling. Then next February Random House is publishing Kelly’s huge immersive, amazing novel, The Book of Love. Can’t wait to see it out in the world. — Gavin ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732156. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 | [email protected] |smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Printed by Paradise Copies. Subscriptions: $24/4 issues (see page 26 or our website for options) — the chocolate option is very popular but the marmite option is gaining ground. Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through the lovely weightlessbooks.com, &c. Contents © 2023 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration “Leo Moon” © 2023 Holly Link. All rights reserved. Celebrating: a UK edition of Zen Cho’s collection, Spirits Abroad. A World Fantasy nomination for the press. Redemption in Indigo being bought by Random House so that Karen Lord can have all her books under one roof. Starred reviews for new books from Anya DeNiro (OKPsyche) and Kij Johnson (The Privilege of the Happy Ending). Reprinting Angélica Gorodischer’s Kalpa Imperial and Sarah Rees Brennan’s In Other Lands. Please send fiction and poetry submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Thanks again, authors, artists, readers.



Total Oblivion, More Or Less

Author : Alan DeNiro

Publisher : Spectra

Page : 322 pages

File Size : 37,69 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Families

ISBN : 0553592548

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When Minnesota is invaded by warriors from the ancient world, sixteen-year-old Macy and her family head down the Mississippi by boat to escape from the encroaching madness.



Tyrannia

Author : A. DeNiro

Publisher : Small Beer Press

Page : 181 pages

File Size : 50,30 MB

Release : 2013-10-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 161873072X

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In these 11 stories—and the weird spaces in between—people of all kinds struggle to free themselves from conventions and constraints both personal and political. Places ranging from the farthest reaches of outer space to the creepy abandoned farmhouse in the middle of nowhere become battlegrounds for change and growth—sometimes at a massive cost. Tyranny takes many forms, some more subtle than others, and it is up to the reader to travel along with the characters, who improvise and create their own renditions of freedom. Poet and fiction writer DeNiro uses language like no other. This second collection of stories explores our relationship to art, history, and looks at how everyday events, personal and political, never cease to leave us off balance.



Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 48

Author : Kelly Link

Publisher : Small Beer Press

Page : 112 pages

File Size : 22,41 MB

Release : 2024-09-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 161873122X

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LCRW IIL or 4 x 1 x 2 x 3 x 2 x 1 or more properly XLVIII. Aimed for May, came out in September. A little disturbing, a little comforting, a little collection of imagined places to while away the days. Published in this leapyear.Editing: accomplished. Stories: gathered. Design partaken of. Proofing? Yes. Printing: c/o Paradise Copies. Ebook: This is it. Distribution: DRM-free at Weightless Books and DRM'd everywhere else. Read by 10.2 million people every million years or so. R.I.P. Howard Waldrop, oh we enjoyed knowing and working (if never fishing) with you. Celebrating: Anya Johanna DeNiro’s OKPsyche is a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award finalist; Sarah Pinsker’s Lost Places (& Small Beer) were Locus Award finalists; Naomi Mitchison was Readercon’s Memorial Guest of Honor. Ink: Gavin J. Grant Spaces: Kelly Link. Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 48. Aimed for May, came out in September 2024. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731227. LCRW is (usually) published in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 | [email protected] | smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Print version text: New Caledonia LT Std; Titles: Imprint MT Shadow; printed by Paradise Copies. Thanks, Valerie. Subscriptions: $24/4 print issues (see page 52 of the print edition or below for options). By mail: please make checks out to Small Beer Press. Only surreal ingredients. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through the lovely weightlessbooks.com, &c. Contents © 2024 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration “Castle Panther” © 2024 Gessica Maio All rights reserved. Please send fiction and poetry submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Thanks again, authors, artists, readers. LCRW Subscriptions Ebook ~ $12.99 ~ 4 ebook issues ~ weightlessbooks.com/lcrw Print ~ $24 ~ 4 issues (sometimes even within the expected 2 years). Choc ~ $42 ~ as print no. 2 & a good chocolate bar each time. Littlely ~ $49 as Choc. & a random chapbook from our list. Reckoning ~ $59–89 ~ as Littlely & your choice of any combo of Reckoning 1-6. Cartwheels! ~ $1,000 ~ as Littlely & a $1,000 donation to Franciscan Hospital for Children. Everyone (hearts) you. Moonlight ~ $110 ~ as no. 2 & a Luna Moth Book Moon Moonlight Club membership.



The Invisible Valley

Author : Su Wei

Publisher : Small Beer Press

Page : 300 pages

File Size : 10,33 MB

Release : 2018-04-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1618731467

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Lu Beiping is one of 20 million young adults the Chinese government uproots and sends far from their homes for agricultural re-education. And Lu is bored and exhausted. While he pines for romance, instead he’s caught up in a forbidden religious tradition and married off to the foreman’s long-dead daughter so that her soul may rest. The foreman then sends him off to cattle duty up on Mudkettle Mountain, far away from everyone else. On the mountain, Lu meets an outcast polyamorous family led by a matriarch, Jade, and one of her lovers, Kingfisher. They are woodcutters and practice their own idiosyncratic faith by which they claim to placate the serpent-demon sleeping in the belly of the mountains. Just as the village authorities get wind of Lu’s dalliances with the woodcutters, a typhoon rips through the valley. And deep in the jungle, a giant serpent may be stirring. The Invisible Valley is a lyrical fable about the shapes into which human affection can be pressed in extreme circumstances; about what is natural and what is truly deviant; about the relationships between the human and the natural, the human and the divine, the self and the other.



Dead Collections

Author : Isaac Fellman

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 32,58 MB

Release : 2022-02-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0143136917

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A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel. When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the "vampire disease." Then, when strange things start happening at the collection, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. DEAD COLLECTIONS is a wry novel full of heart and empathy, that celebrates the journey, the difficulties and joys, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies.



An Agent of Utopia

Author : Andy Duncan

Publisher : Small Beer Press

Page : 255 pages

File Size : 17,24 MB

Release : 2018-11-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1618731548

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In the tales gathered in An Agent of Utopia: New and Selected Stories you will meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk steelworker, a time-traveling prizefighter, a yam-eating Zombie, and a child who loves a frizzled chicken—not to mention Harry Houdini, Zora Neale Hurston, Sir Thomas More, and all their fellow travelers riding the steamer-trunk imagination of a unique twenty-first-century fabulist. From the Florida folktales of the perennial prison escapee Daddy Mention and the dangerous gator-man Uncle Monday that inspired "Daddy Mention and the Monday Skull" (first published in Mojo: Conjure Stories, edited by Nalo Hopkinson) to the imagined story of boxer and historical bit player Jess Willard in World Fantasy Award winner "The Pottawatomie Giant" (first published on SciFiction), or the Ozark UFO contactees in Nebula Award winner "Close Encounters" to Flannery O’Connor’s childhood celebrity in Shirley Jackson Award finalist "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse" (first published in Eclipse) Duncan’s historical juxtapositions come alive on the page as if this Southern storyteller was sitting on a rocking chair stretching the truth out beside you. Duncan rounds out his explorations of the nooks and crannies of history in two irresistible new stories, "Joe Diabo's Farewell" — in which a gang of Native American ironworkers in 1920s New York City go to a show — and the title story, "An Agent of Utopia" — where he reveals what really (might have) happened to Thomas More’s head.



The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin

Publisher : Small Beer Press

Page : 299 pages

File Size : 49,82 MB

Release : 2012-11-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1618730363

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Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin's short story collections: "It is the author's more serious work that displays her talents best. . . . [A] classy and valuable collection."—Publishers Weekly "A master of the craft."—Neil Gaiman The Unreal and the Real is a two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best stories. It is a much-anticipated event and there is no doubt it will delight, amuse, and provoke. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's satirical, risky, political, and experimental earthbound stories. Ursula K. Le Guin has received the PEN–Malamud and National Book Awards, among others. She lives in Portland, Oregon.



World Engines: Destroyer

Author : Stephen Baxter

Publisher : Gollancz

Page : 576 pages

File Size : 22,30 MB

Release : 2019-09-19

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1473223202

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In the year 2570, a sleeper will wake . . . In the mid-21st century, the Kernel, a strange object on a five-hundred-year-orbit, is detected coming from high above the plane of the solar system. Could it be an alien artefact? In the middle of climate-change crises, there is no mood for space-exploration stunts - but Reid Malenfant, elderly, once a shuttle pilot and frustrated would-be asteroid miner, decides to go take a look anyway. Nothing more is heard of him. But his ex-wife, Emma Stoney, sets up a trust fund to search for him the next time the Kernel returns . . . By 2570 Earth is transformed. A mere billion people are supported by advanced technology on a world that is almost indistinguishable from the natural, with recovered forests, oceans, ice caps. It is not an age for expansion; there are only small science bases beyond the Earth. But this is a world you would want to live in: a Star Trek without the stars. After 500 years the Kernel returns, and a descendant of Stoney, who Malenfant will call Emma II, mounts a mission to see what became of Malenfant. She finds him still alive, cryo-preserved . . . His culture-shock encounter with a conservative future is entertaining . . . But the Kernel itself turns out to be attached to a kind of wormhole, through which Malenfant and Emma II, exploring further, plummet back in time, across five billion years . . .