Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys

9781434002402

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Maureen F. McHugh is the author of four acclaimed novels. Her genre-expanding short fiction has won the Hugo and Locus Awards and has frequently been included in Best of the Year anthologies. Now, in her luminous, long-awaited debut collection, McHugh wryly and delicatel

"My father proposed to my mother at gunpoint when she was nineteen, and knowing that she was already pregnant with a dead man's child, she accepted." Thus begins this riveting story of a woman's quest to understand her recently deceased mother, a glamorous, cruel narcissist who left her only child a

A Theban adventure from the master of Science-Fiction, here proving himself adept at imagining historical worlds. Part of the Brian Aldiss Collection. In Jocasta, Aldiss brings vividly to life the ancient world of dreaming Thebes: a world of sun-drenched landscapes, golden dust, sphynxes, Furies, he

Caitlin R. Kiernan has been described as one of 'the most original and audacious weird writers of her generation' (Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, The Weird), 'one of our essential writers of dark fiction' (New York Times), and S.T. Joshi has proclaimed, 'hers is now the voice of weird fiction.' In The Ape