A hard-SF novel that begins with events during China's Cultural Revolution and expands into first contact between humanity and an alien civilization. Scientific thinking and civilizational crisis intersect to create an epic account of interstellar tension.
A nonfiction work that traces the young lives lost in the 1916 Easter Rising through testimony and research. It makes visible the individual lives hidden behind a major historical event.
The story of a man guarding a galactic relay station hidden inside a farm house in Wisconsin. In a quiet rural landscape, the point where Earth meets the cosmos slowly opens up.
Discover the haunting stories of Crawford Award-winning author Christopher Barzak in his new collection Before and Afterlives. These are tales of relationships with unearthly domesticity and eeriness: a woman falls in love with a haunted house; a beached mermaid is substituted for a lost missing daughter; the imaginary friend of a murdered young mother stalks the streets of her small town; a teenage boy is afflicted with a disease that causes him to vanish; a father exploits his daughter's talent for calling ghosts to her; and a wife leaves her husband and children to fulfill her obligations to a world from which she escaped. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection!
Irelandopedia is a children's book that introduces Irish geography, culture, and history through illustrations and bite-sized facts. It packages encyclopedic material in an accessible and playful voice.
Fired at almost the same time as her son Clarks Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis, former film critic turned teacher Lois Cairns is caught in a depressive downward spiral, convinced shes a failure whos spent half her adult life writing about other peoples dreams without ever seeing any of her own come true. One night Lois attends a program of experimental film and emerges convinced shes seen something no one else hasa sampled piece of silver nitrate silent film footage whose existence might prove that an eccentric early 20th-century socialite who disappeared under mysterious circumstances was also one of Canadas first female movie-makers. Though it raises her spirits and revitalizes her creatively, Loiss headlong quest to discover the truth about Mrs. A. Macalla Whitcomb almost immediately begins to send her much further than she ever wanted to go, revealing increasingly troubling links between her subjects life and her own. Slowly but surely, the malign influence of Mrs Whitcombs muse begins to creep into every aspect of Loiss life, even placing her son in danger. But how can one increasingly ill and unstable woman possibly hope to defeat a threat thats half long-lost folklore, half cinematically framed hallucinationan existential nightmare made physical, projected off the screen and into real life?