Speculative fiction Books

Immerse yourself in a fantasy world of Filipino myth, magic, and supernatural suspense!Lambana. -the realm of supernatural fairies known as Diwata - has fallen, and the Magic Prohibition Act has been...

Praise for the gypt sequence:"With Little, Big, Crowley established himself as America's greatest living writer of fantasy. gypt confirms that he is one of our finest living writers, period...

* Philip K. Dick Award Winner * Best of the Year: Locus, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Magazine * Nominated for the Impac AwardCharley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the...

Paul Madonna's popular comic, "All Over Coffee" had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission...

O Magazine's Top 20 Books to Read This Summer! "In this searing hallucinatory novel set partly in a lunarlike desert, Bell captures a mood of sexual menace, tracing the fates of a teenage girl and...

In the alternate universe of this glitteringly surreal first novel, the Aztecs rule, having conquered the European invaders. Zenzontli, Keeper of the House of Darkness, is visited by visions of a...

A traveler looks out his hotel window on a war-torn city. A mortar explodes in his room and, when the police arrive, the corpse has disappeared and only a notebook of apocryphal writings and poems is...

Long out of print, Eugene Lim's wry and haunting debut novel returns to shelves with a new introduction from Renee Gladman and a fresh, reversible cover.Jim Fog is marooned in a small Midwest town...

A young Kurdish woman discovers a commitment to liberation, both personal and collective, through a harrowing journey to Rojava and the heart of armed struggle.Jncin is a young professor living in...

A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government.The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through...

In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend...

It's been a while: After years of serialized issues, Shadow Hills collects all ten installments, a whopping four of which were counted among the best comics of their year by the Comics Journal. It's...

Notorious Los Angeles graffiti writer, SOBR, finds himself wanted for a murder he did not commit. With the help of a childhood friend, an LAPD Magistrate Inquirer, SOBR sets out to clear his graffiti...

Winner of Canada Reads 2024 Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction One of Tor.com's Can't Miss Speculative Fiction for Fall 2023 Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 One...

Semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971.First published in 1974, this novel is a...

Nominated for 2024 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's Elgin Award One of the Globe 100's Best Books of 2023 The follow-up to Guriel'sNYT New & NoteworthyForgotten Work is a mashup...

Incarcerated for his subversive connection to the old, living world, a prisoner makes the most of his isolation in this captivating allegorical tale about tyranny, conviction, and the enduring power...

The third volume in the series takes up where The Initiate and The Initiate in the New World leave off, providing more insights into the mysterious Adept known as Justin Moreward Haig. At first, we...

The Initiate presents the unfolding story of the fascinating and mysterious personality known as Justin Moreward Haig. The story is of absorbing interest to students of the spiritual path because...

Welcome to Dark Factory! You may experience strobe effects, Y reality, DJ beats, love, sex, betrayal, triple shot espresso, broken bones, broken dreams, ecstasy, self-knowledge, and the void. Dark...

On the eve of the Occupy Wall Street protests, C is flat broke. Once a renowned textile artist, she's now the sole proprietor of an arts supply store in Lower Manhattan. Divorced, alone, at loose...

The Bee and the Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson presents a lifelong exchange of unknown letters between Dickinson, the reclusive poet, and Alcott, the most...

In the alternate history novel The New Empire, the world undergoes a drastic change in the 14th century when Chinese ships land on the west coast of what we know as the Bay Area of California. Fast...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEAn incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longingIn fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential...

A delightful graphic memoir told in photographs. Ype is a gay man living in Amsterdam with his boyfriend Nico. When asked by Nico to accompany him on a work trip to America, Ype must confront his...

What would life feel like without fear and oppression? Is it possible to find solace in the power of chosen family, underground art collectives, and ultimately revolution? Set in Beirut, Lebanon, a...

As the story moves into the last book of the trilogy, we know that Chaldee's kingdom has been destroyed, meaning she must seek a new homeland, but the search seems fruitless until, with the help of...

In this hybrid novel-part essay, part prose poem, part travel narrative-Blair Austin brings us nose to the glass with our own vanishing world, what we preserve and at what cost.<br> In a city...

May, 1970. A two-person Soviet crew approaches the moon, ready to accomplish the greatest feat in human history-provided they can overcome their own petty jealousies, and the unforgiving harshness of...

June, 1968. An air force astronaut flies to an orbiting observation platform for a forty-day stint spying on the Soviet Union from space-and discovers a plot that will determine the fate of the world...

A Voyage to Arcturus, the gender-bending, genre-smashing epic by David Lindsay, is a neglected landmark in the history of science fiction and fantasy.Cited as a major influence by J.R.R. Tolkien and...

A page-turner about a woman's struggle in an unapologetic patriarchy, Bride of the Buddha offers the reader a penetrating perspective on the milieu of the Buddha, with a fanciful twist.This is the...

'On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment of her death, Imogen Zula Nyoni Genie was seen to fly away on a giant...

In a near future Tokyo, every action-from blinking to sexual intercourse-is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees...Risen from the ashes of bankdeath, Amon Kenzaki,...

Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and Special Citation Winner A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating...

This almost silent comic tells the story of an amateur alchemist and getaway driver for a bank heist. When the holdup goes wrong he finds himself with a bag full of hot cash, orders a build-your-own...

An aging botanist withdraws to the seclusion of his family's vacation home in the German countryside. In his final days, he realizes that his life's work of scientific classification has led him...

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of...

Winner: MoCCA Award of ExcellenceRINGO AwardsNomination: Best ArtistNew York Public Libraries Best Comics of 2023 ListIn hell, everyone can hear you scream, but only one person listens.Hell can get...

Ex Libris revolves around a character who is holed up in a room with nothing but a futon and a bookcase full of comics. As they peruse covers, read stories and fragments of stories, they start to...

A collection of visions shared across cyberspace, Souvenirs, a collaboration between authors Andrew Colarusso and Karen An-hwei Lee, celebrates fragments from the literary afterlife. In Souvenirs, a...

Never before available in the United States, Robert Aickman's bizarre and timeless masterpiece!Completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before published in the US and not widely in the UK, Go...

'Kings, lords, liars, usherettes, goal-hangers, gun-men and prostitutes. Whether or not these stories bear any relation to life as it is lived in Endland (sic) is not my problem and good riddance to...

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a voodoo prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean...

The story can now be told.The shocking details of Caesar's visit and its effect on subsequent events have been protected by draconian nondisclosure agreements....until now.

A gorgeous fable of Earth's last two human inhabitants, and a girl's journey home.In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a...

"A magical journey to a world of mystical delights." - Deepak Chopra, MDA Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar's debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, and the power of...

Ann Quin's wildest, funniest, freakiest, kinkiest, and best novel - a road-trip novel, a graphic novel, a spy novel, a Beat novel, an anti-novel - is available again, to inspire a new generation of...