Seattle, February 2076. The Marq ssan bring business as usual to a screeching halt all over the world, and Professor Kay Zeldin joins Robert Sedgewick, US Chief of Security Services, in his war against the invaders. Soon Kay is making rather than writing history. But as she goes head-to-head against the Marq ssan, the long-buried secrets of her past resurface, and her conflicts with Sedgewick and Security Services multiply. She faces terrifying choices. Her worldview, her very grip on reality, is turned inside out. Whose side is she really on? And how far will she go in serving that side? 
 Samuel R. Delany writes: "The coupling of real thoughtfulness and rip-roaring excitement is as rare in science fiction as in any other genre. But here, in Alanya to Alanya, they're locked together in the most exciting-and certainly the most intelligent!-tale of alien invasion I've read in decades. Because it is believable, it's fascinating. And, in the years that have seen Margaret Thatcher go and Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice arrive, Kay Zeldin is an extraordinarily effective portrait of a political hero." Samuel R. Delany, author of Dhalgren 
 Politically savvy and philosophically relevant, this title puts a human face on today's problems. --Library Journal

Alanya to Alanya (Marq'ssan Cycle, Book One)

Literature & Fiction

Duchamp, L. Timmel

Literary

Aqueduct Press

Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from across the Known Multiverse is an anthology of short fictions by Nisi Shawl, Anna Tambour, Lucy Sussex, Mark Rich, and others. Ever wonder who that frequent addressee of Anglophone Nineteenth-century narrators, ''Dear Reader,'' really was? Or about the true story on which Edgar Allan Poe based his melodramatic '''Fall of the House of Usher''? Perhaps it never occurred to you to wonder whether there might have been a relationship between H.G. Wells' supposedly fictional Dr. Moreau and Joseph Conrad's supposedly fictional Col. Kurtz. Missing Links and Secret Histories elucidates these and other mysteries (some admittedly obscure). It even includes excerpts from lost or suppressed manuscripts scholars have not even suspected exist, such as ''The V Manuscript'' written by the Marquis de Sade in 1783 while imprisoned in the Chateau de Vincennes.

Missing Links and Secret Histories

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

They named the planet La Femme and called it a paradise and refused to leave it. Now Julia 9561 is heading up the mission to retrieve the errant crew and establish meaningful Contact with the inhabitants. Are the inhabitants really all female, as the first crew claimed? Why don't the men want to return to Earth? What happened to the women on the crew? And why did Paul 22423 warn the First Council to send only male crew members? ''Chercher La Femme, which unfolds in a strange, complex, alien future, effectively explores several themes: of personal identity and how it holds itself together but is also porous to experience; of communication with alien life forms and how amorphous and challenging that might be; and of the visceral power of alien forms of beauty and art, giving the story compelling depths. The tense stretch between the Pax and the Outsiders offers an interesting representation of the real-world tension we now live with, between low-tech societies and those racing to colonize outer (and inner, personal) space in all sorts of ways. ''There's some interesting tidal stirring going on at the more cerebral levels of modern SF, which I think began with books like A Voyage to Arcturus and Solaris. It's now manifesting itself in, for example, Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach books and in this book, Chercher La Femme, as well as in films like Arrival, They Remain, and of course Annihilation. Human bafflement and consternation characterize these stories in the face of the most alien kind of alien-ness we can imagine at this point, and a necessary softening and yielding of our age-old infatuation with a propulsive, often violent drive to control (or kill) whatever is ineffable and strange to us."-- Suzy McKee Charnas, author of The Vampire Tapestry and the Holdfast Chronicles ''Speculative Fiction at Its Purest.''--Vonda N. McIntyre, author of the Starfarer series

Chercher La Femme

Genre Fiction

"[Eve] turned her attention to the monitor displaying Minnivitch’s cell. Never had it been so clear what Minnivitch was up to. The bare minimalist space of the cell screamed stage, and some strange, dramaturgical magic had transformed the white glare of the indirect fluorescent lighting into spotlights. Kneeling bald and naked on the floor’s glassine surface, Minnivitch—her arms, wrists, hands, and fingers as dramatically expressive as her face—was telling a story to an audience somewhere outside the glare of the lights." —from The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding)  Sarah Minnivitch, an actor sentenced to prison for acts of civil disobedience, wreaked havoc at the for-profit medium-security facility she was first sent to. When Penco transfers her to a high-security facility, the facility’s director assigns Dr. Eve Escher the task of rehabilitating Minnivitch and recovering the corporation’s losses. Escher believes she is on the verge of a scientific breakthrough that will not only rehabilitate the prisoner but also win the physician fame and glory. But the stakes for both Escher and Minnivitch prove to be higher than either of them imagined.  "Duchamp does a marvelous job of portraying the intensely claustrophobic Facility A7, a closed universe so much to and of itself that the real world, which the author only occasionally and nightmarishly evokes, fades to insignificance[...] Given the recent revelations of how prisoners of the U.S. government have been treated at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and of the free hand that private corporations like Halliburton have been given by the government to act like independent pocket-states, Duchamp's novel seems as relevant today as any uncensored blog reporting form the Middle East."   Michael Levy, New York Review of Science Fiction, August 2007

The Red Rose Rages (Bleeding) (Conversation Pieces)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Talking Back showcases the epistolary fantasies of eighteen writers, among them Carol Emshwiller, Leslie What, Eileen Gunn, and Rosaleen Love. Invited to “talk back,” the authors penned love letters, fans letters, angry letters, thoughtful letters, letters to dead people, letters to fictional characters, letters to corporations. Carol Emshwiller writes to her beloved Ledoyt; Eileen Gunn, provoked by a New York Times review of Lady Windermere’s Fan, addresses Oscar Wilde; Heather Lindsley tenders friendly advice to Citibank; and Nisi Shawl explains to Jack Kerouac that the joke is on both of them. “Lovely Madame,” writes James Trimarco to Charles Dickens’s infamous Madame Defarge, “you whose eyes flash as your knitting needles click-clack at the table, I spit on the death your father has written for you and burn those pages from my book…” These are letters that will never be sent, intimate and personal, fantasies the authors have agreed to share with their readers.
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”[...]a slim volume, yes, but filled with potential, great fun to read, and thought-provoking too. What more could one ask from a book, or a letter?”
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Talking Back: Epistolary Fantasies (Conversation Pieces)

Fantasy

Narrative Power: Encounters, Celebrations, Struggle is a collection of essays on narrative by Samuel R. Delany, Lance Olsen, Nicola Griffith, Lesley A. Hall, Alan DeNiro, Carolyn Ives Gilman, and others. It is commonly said that history is written by the victors: the narrator chooses the events that will be part of the story, and the narrative explains their meaning. In fiction, narrative conventions and clichés make writing and reading familiar stories easier, but also impede writers' efforts to tell unfamiliar stories. This volume asks: Is narrative inherently dangerous? Empowering? Or even liberating? A mix of established and new writers join several scholars in considering the politics of narrative manifested in fiction, history, and science.

Narrative Power: Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles

Essays & Correspondence

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