Cover Art by Mr. Amorn Setthitorn

Reviews

“Wolf’s Path is a remarkable new entry from Joyce Chng demonstrating why she’s one of the most ambitious and engaging SFF writers today. It’s an excellent introduction to her work that’s sure to delight you with its evocative prose and compelling ideas long after you’ve put it down!”
—Bryan Thao Worra, author of American Laodyssey

“Joyce Chng’s Wolf’s Path is a journey. A trek not merely through the author’s chronological career trajectory but across time, space, and genre. From piratical adventures on the high seas to worlds destroyed by climate change and resurrected through sheer will, from prose to poetry to autobiography, this lyrical collection is a celebration of the queer, the primal, and the sensory. Chng is a masterful storyteller, weaving together the rich cultural tapestry of Singapore with literary prose and fresh interrogations of genre fiction. Wolf’s Path is a howl of triumph.”
—Rachel A.Rosen, author of Cascade

“Wolf’s Path is an intricately exciting collection of speculative stories, poetry, and personal essays that flow together with an undercurrent of warmth and thoughtfulness. Joyce wonderfully creates stories that expand and question perspectives, with characters that can be as sharp as claws and soft as paw pads. They have a way of embedding the fury of injustices within plotlines so that something kinder can grow in their characters. Each story leaves us with catalysts for reflection, growth, and hope. Highly recommended for those who enjoy memorable, speculative stories that are robustly imaginative and edged with a quiet (sometimes feisty!) intensity.
—Dhiyanah Hassan, artist

“Whether it’s examining fantastical pasts, apocalyptic futures, or the SFnal world we call reality, Wolf’s Path is a fascinating exploration of how others use our differences against us, and how our differences ultimately help us find our place in the world. Chng excels at creating unique, relatable characters who will pull you in and stories that will change your perspective. Highly recommended, especially for those who feel they’re stuck between worlds—real or imagined.
—Stewart C Baker, author of The Butterfly Disjunct

“A collection to mark Chng’s turning 50 this year, this is a collection that embraces the changing nature of the writer over their career: from their earliest published work, through to very recent pieces, showing the consistent themes that Chng keeps coming back to. In particular, questions of what life can and might be like during war pop up several times; and explorations of gender, ethnicity, and identity broadly defined are a consistent presence. And Chng’s experience as a Singaporean is also fundamental to their stories, with many of the stories taking place in either a real or imagined Southeast Asia. It’s brilliant that Atthis Arts is publishing this retrospective collection. Too often white men get collected early in their careers and everyone else just… doesn’t. Chng’s voice is an example of one that should be highlighted and celebrated.”
—Alexandra Pierce, editor of Speculative Insight

“Wolf’s Path is full to the brim with beautifully written stories from the wonderfully imaginative mind of Joyce Chng.”
—Rohan O’Duill, author of the Cold Rush series

“You should deffo pick up a copy. The themes are bold and poignant, and the stories take you so well through a path of discovery. It’s wicked.”
—Dr. Emma Burnett, multi-published short fiction writer

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Atmospheric and meditative, Mysiak’s staccato Ukrainian storytelling paints an evocative tale of a motley and rather strange gathering of men who restore a broken-down factory aside an old, forgotten village to build and sell electronic machines assured to cause happiness. Though smoothly woven between pleasantries and mishaps, often calming, and frequently amusing, there is a deeply cutting edge of satire, fury, and rebellion to this meandering tale. In all of this, The Factory builds its own modern parable to remind the reader of love, community, and the joys of every single day, and the need—the urgency—to protect them.

Cover art and original design by Ihor Dunets, provided generously by our friends at Tempora Publishing

“The Factory is an amazing book that will repay careful reading but also just reading for fun.” —Tad Williams, Bestselling Author of The Last King of Osten Ard

Accolades

Longlist – 2024 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards for Novel

Media

Lit Hub: Ten Titles in Translation That Celebrate Ukraine: Nelly Klos Recommends Books, Plays, and Memoirs That Uplift Ukrainian Voices

Chytomo: Book of the Month

New Books Network: Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed hosts Hanna Leliv, Yevheniia Dubrova, and E.D.E. Bell to discuss The Factory.

In Conversation: E.D.E. Bell and Tad Williams discuss The Factory

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Sixteen brand-new tales from guests of the 2024 Gen Con Writers’ Symposium take you on a journey spanning the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and slipstream.

Featuring all-new short fiction from:

2024 Special Guest Linda D. Addison, Jennifer Brozek and Raven Oak, Richard Lee Byers, Brandon Crilly, Richard Dansky, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Sarah Hans, Gabrielle Harbowy, Akis Linardos, Karen Menzel, Daniel Myers, Cat Rambo, Jason Sanford, LaShawn M. Wanak, Gregory A. Wilson, Bryan Young

Cover art by Alex Steffan.

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This collection gathers 30 short stories from writers living in wartime Ukraine, their work translated into English for the very first time, as well as from international authors of Ukrainian heritage. Come, now, and experience the magic, the terror, and the wonder-filled surprises of the worlds they’ve brought to life.

Cover illustration by Taras Kopansky.

Media

Review by Nicole Yurcaba, Chytomo

Accolades

Longlist – 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards for Collection

Reviews

“Bold and brave, its stories are a testament to the role of storytelling and remembering in Ukrainian culture. More so, Embroidered Worlds is a reminder to the world that Ukrainians do, and always will, exist.” – Nicole Yurcaba, Chytomo

“An amazing collection of short stories from the best Ukrainian sci fi and fantasy authors, made even more poignant because of the current war. The stories are very different and still heartbreakingly lovely, and the introduction is very helpful in telling the reader more about the authors and their own histories. Excellent book that I hope will be more popular with the Western readers.” – Rina Iosad, Book Reviewer

Places where you can help Ukrainians in need

And a message from translator Hanna Leliv: 2 January 2024

No donation is too small.

• Chytomo magazine is the largest independent media covering publishing and contemporary literary and cultural processes in Ukraine. https://chytomo.com/en
• The Hospitallers is a volunteer organization of paramedics who assist those who need immediate treatment, directly on the front line. https://www.hospitallers.life/
• Dobrobat is a volunteer construction battalion that assists the survivors in de-occupied territories in the urgent restoration of housing and social infrastructure. http://dobrobat.in.ua
• Unite with Ukraine is using funds raised to supply items such as medical and protective equipment to the front line. https://unitewithukraine.co
• UA Animals actively helps animals within war zones: evacuate, provide feed and medicines for shelters. https://uanimals.org/en
• Razom funds projects that are designed to have immediate manifestations of impact, with a focus on the needs on the ground to support Ukraine and on opportunities to amplify voices from Ukraine. https://www.razomforukraine.org
• The Leleka Foundation focuses on first aid, evacuation, and definitive care of war casualties in Ukraine by funding front-line medical professionals. https://www.leleka.care/donate
• Dignitas seeks to empower the Ukrainian people by providing essential humanitarian supplies, technology, training initiatives, and expert guidance. https://dignitas.fund

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When they reach Hawaiʻi and prepare to part ways, opportunity and mystery pull them closer together. Both scientific and personal discoveries take shape as they join with ex-lovers, lost friends, and found family. Wend must navigate an ever-shifting future, complicated by bioengineered microbes and a plot to silence scientists, entangled with inexplicable dreams and a calling to Be the Sea.

Cover Artist: Matthew Spencer

Author Clara Ward donates 100% of their royalties from Be the Sea to conservation efforts for our global ocean.

Media:

“The Cake is a Truth” by Clara Ward as a guest of Cat Rambo

Maria Haskins for Psychopomp

Many more interviews on Clara’s website.

Buzz:

“I am so delighted to see this book published. I read an early version, and it’s terrific. Please consider picking it up, perhaps by ordering through your local bookstore, or by requesting from your library!” — Cat Rambo, Nebula winning writer, editor, and teacher

Reviews:

“I’m not a big sci-fi person, but if more of it left me feeling as good as this one did, I’d call myself a huge fan.” — Alex Brown, Ignyte Award winning critic of Punk-Ass Book Jockey

“An amazing sci-fi novel… An eclectic cast of queer and disabled characters… If you enjoy optimistic stories that take into account the realities of our world but present innovative solutions, you’ll enjoy Be the Sea“ — Dawn Vogel, History That Never Was

“Reading BE THE SEA felt like diving into the rhythm of a character’s actual life – not “skipping to the good parts,” but watching everything, a day at a time, an hour at a time. It’s an interesting life, which involves sea voyages as well as a gradually unfolding set of psychic experiences and intrigues, but you get to watch not just the intrigues but the way they fit into a larger pattern of routines, career struggles, relationship negotiations, eating, sleeping, and storytelling as our protagonist, Wend, struggles to articulate why they’re here on this voyage and what they feel. I’m just so here for the type of experience that this book offers.”  —  Ada Hoffman, author of The Outside

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Featuring

Cover illustration by Mia Carnevale.

Media

Rosalind’s Siblings on the Locus Magazine 2023 Recommended Reading List

Accolades

Finalist – 2024 Lambda Literary Awards for LGBTQ+ Anthology

Longlist – 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards for Collection

Reviews

“Featuring stories and poems, the anthology challenges, confronts, and comforts all at once, featuring a range of characters facing intense and complex situations involving research, exploration, and discovery. It’s a wonderful reading experience!” — Charles Payseur, series editor of We’re Here: The Year’s Best Queer Speculative Fiction

“The anthology contains several excellent works. I enjoyed this a lot, not in the least because it introduced me to several new writers. Recommended!” — Kelly Jennings, Azimov’s Science Fiction

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Guided by premonitions and a fateful car ride, a burned-out retail worker stumbles into the grand exit from womanhood. Meanwhile, in a galaxy not so far away, an alien prince goes rogue with his sentient spaceship, seeking purpose in the great glimmering void. As the two of them come together in a fusion of body and mind, they must reckon with their assigned identities.

Tender, witty, and daring, Pluralities is a slipstream-meets-space-adventure story honoring the long and turbulent journey into gender euphoria.

Cover Artist: Lorna Antoniazzi

Accolades

Finalist – 2024 Aurora Awards for Novelette/Novella

Longlist – 2023 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards for Shorter Fiction

Media

Pluralities reviewed by Amal El-Mohtar in the New York Times

Pluralities reviewed by P.L. Stuart on the Before We Go Blog

Pluralities on the Locus Magazine 2023 Recommended Reading List

Pluralities featured on the Lambda Literary Review Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature blog for October 2023

Pluralities on the Books & Bao “32 Best Sci-Fi Books Ever”

Pluralities on Another Book on the Shelf podcast

Reviews:

“A tender exploration of gender and body that revels in its own strangeness. Avi Silver never shies away from the awkward, horny, or complicated aspects of nonbinary identity. This is the 401-level nonbinary speculative fiction I’ve been waiting for.” — Nino Cipri, author of Finna

“Pluralities offers two subtly converging stories of a young person quitting a dismal retail job in a reality slightly at an angle from ours, and a space-opera prince on the run with his sentient spaceship friend. This novella truly pushes the envelope of gender exploration in fiction. It does not shy away from tackling the uneasy, messy, but also potentially liberating aspects of sex, T4T relationships, Jewish feminism, and resigning from your job on the spot even if it means having to walk off half-naked. My ideal world would be full of books like this one. Sadly we’re not living there, but you can get and read this particular story in the meanwhile!” — Bogi Takács, Hugo and Lambda award winning author and editor

“A gleaming, quicksilver flash of a book. Silver’s writing is funny and tender, and that self-aware humor manages to keep the book’s earnestness from turning twee, while the prose is often shockingly beautiful.” — Amal El-Mohtar, New York Times Book Review and co-author, with Max Gladstone, of This is How You Lose the Time War

“Pluralities is a cosmic journey through transness so relatable that it emB.O.D.Y.ied the beauty of being trans. Avi Silver’s grasp of the art of story is so great that it spans galaxies (and an entire mall) to bring the reader finally home to what is gender. A must read for anyone trans, questioning, or any trans ally.” — Jordan Kurella, author of I Never Liked You Anyway

“Pluralities arrives at a timely point to explore how speculative fiction might engage with journeys towards non-binary identities. This is a welcome and frank, challenging exploration of the issue that is at once ambitious and sensitive. Witty and touching, these characters will linger with you as they push the boundaries of exploring who we are, and what we desire. I look forward to reading more from Avi Silver in the future!” — Bryan Thao Worra, author of American Laodyssey

“Years into my own journey, this story was especially meaningful to me. I love that the narrative is filled with queer love, friendship, and euphoria. This novella doesn’t shy away from challenging questions about the intersection of feminism and trans identity, and it doesn’t offer glib answers, but faces those questions head-on. I found the read experience-broadening, and hope this book finds the audience it deserves.” — José Pablo Iriarte, Hugo and Nebula Finalist

“Avi Silver’s Pluralities is a heartfelt story about what it means to be human in a world that demands our nuanced identities give way to simple hashtags and easy takes. Complex, lyrical and surprising, it will take you on a journey from the parking lot down the road to the vast reaches of space… and if you sign on for this voyage, the thing you’re most likely to find may be yourself.” — L.X. Beckett, author of Gamechanger

“If you’ve been craving something soft and thoughtful and loving – with spaceships that talk through lightbulbs and trans besties living their best lives in Stardew Valley – then it’s absolutely perfect.” — Every Book a Doorway

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Selected – Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, edited by Stephen Kotowych for “Shattered” by Marie Bilodeau

To heal. to mourn. to redeem. to live.

Rogue Artists presents seventeen speculative fiction stories of art used for change, in celebration of the 2022 Origins Game Fair, themed: The Art of Games. This trade edition has a different cover, size, and format than the limited Game Fair edition, and we are pleased to offer these amazing stories to global spec-fic audiences.

Featuring

Cover Art by Charles Urbach

Reviews:

“The careful curation of these works walks us through a fascinating gallery of the human heart and soul. Many types are art are explored in these works: the art of tattoo, sketch work, and stage. The art of song, and the art of paint. Even the art of gallery curation. Some tales between these pages will enchant you. Some will make you shiver and move on quickly. Some will comfort disturbed souls…and some will disturb comfortable egos. What I can promise you is that each story hung in this gallery has the power to move you.” – Author O.E. Tearmann

“In this anthology, seventeen writers employ the art of storytelling to explore visual and performing arts, across a wide range of perspectives and speculative sub-genres. The various combinations succeed in ways I could not have predicted. For example, while fantastical mystery is not my usual reading choice and improv not even the sort of theatre I prefer, C.S.E. Cooney’s “Catharsis” haunted me to the point that I sought out (and loved!) some of her other writings. Cat Rambo I’d admired for a while, but “Art Holds Our Broken Hearts Together” gave me the story of space refugees that I didn’t know I needed. Finally, E.D.E. Bell’s “Grace, who sings” brought my younger self’s fascination with empaths and healers forward to a more mature (and elegant) take on individual’s roles and responsibilities to others.” – Author Clara Ward

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A two-part novella, One Arm Shorter Than The Other weaves mysteries of fantasy with sci-fi possibilities.

Cover Art: Haricha Abdaal

Nominee – 2022 The Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards for Novella

Reviews:

“The kind of novella that will make you fall in love with speculative fiction all over again.” – Ignyte Award winning book critic Alex Brown

“Damn, that was rather good! Chandni Chowk and fantastical events, name a more iconic combo.” – Ignyte, Hugo, and Nebula finalist Shiv Ramdas

“A marvelous surprise. Exceptional. One Arm Shorter than the Other will wind up your mind and set it running.” — Arturo Serrano, Hugo-winning fanzine nerds of a feather, flock together, 9/10

“Really enjoyed Gigi Ganguly’s One Arm Shorter Than The Other, a mosaic novella that gently merges science-fictional ideas with the anything-goes playfulness of Bengali tall tales, never losing the wistful grounding weight of everyday life & relationships.” – Lambda and Shirley Jackson Award winner Indrapramit Das

“Gigi is the kind of writer who strives to bring light and joy into her readers’ lives. One Arm Shorter Than The Other is a gorgeous, skillfully wrought, millennia-spanning feat of imagination, written with warmth and tenderness and great humour. I was enchanted by this novel, and uplifted. This kind of story is good for the soul.” — Donal Ryan, four-time Irish Book Award winner

“I greatly admire Gigi Ganguly’s vivid and beautiful writing, and I loved this novella.” — Joseph O’Connor, award-winning novelist and Professor of Creative Writing

“This story calls Bradbury and King to mind, but Gigi Ganguly cuts her own path here with an evocative mixture of psychological realism, magic realism, and the uncanny. The interconnected tales that make up this novella are by themselves unnerving, tragic, and hilarious meditations on memory, loss, and regret; combined, they form something unique that will linger with the reader, as enigmatic as the mysterious repair shop that links them. From the Old Delhi setting to the ensemble cast of characters, all wounded by personal or family history, this is an extraordinary debut.” — Jack Fennell, writer and anthologist

“A story that is both heartwarming and mind bending, One Arm Shorter Than The Other is a startlingly original work.” — Wyn Lewis, Kid Ferrous Reviews, 5 Stars

“A wonderful mind-bending debut. The storyline set in historical India made me nostalgic for the street food!” — Monika’s Book Blog, 5 Stars

“Just amazing! From the setting in Delhi to the plot twists of each item and how they affect the owner after repair to the final story connecting them all, I highly recommend you read this.” — Humaira Ahmad, Bookish Connections, 5 Stars

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As Told by Things

Ordinary objects. Extraordinary tales.

As Told by Things is a lighthearted, multi-genre collection of short stories and flash fiction, each told from the perspective of an inanimate object. Fun, witty, and full of charm, As Told by Things will capture your imagination—as well as your heart.

What objects do you think have stories to tell?

Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove

A legendary hotel. Five minutes at a time.

Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove is an eclectic collection of short stories and flash fiction.

Whether there’s an incident at the front desk, something not quite right with the room, a bear stopping in for a beer, or a resolute robot revolt, lives change by the minute within the grounds, rooms, and corridors of the legendary Hotel Stormcove. Lovers meet, witches gather, friends connect, and those in need always find shelter.

See you at the reception desk?

Community of Magic Pens

An eclectic, multi-genre collection of original stories about the power of communication, the magic of writing instruments, and the strength of community, curated to inspire wonder, hope, and joy.

Eclectic, imaginative, and unexpected, Community of Magic Pens features forty genre-spanning flash and short stories—including fantasy, humor, science fiction, romance, historical fiction, satire, and mystery—bringing together a rich group of diverse voices from a wide range of backgrounds and intersections.

Fountain pens, markers and ink, charcoals, spy pens, a braille writer, a printing press, virtual reality, and a supernatural pizza: whether revealing unspoken truths, fighting injustice, or finding friendship and love, our pens have power. Join us as a recent graduate of superhero school struggles to understand her gift, a disabled android interviews for a job, a queen’s conscripted artist must pull reality from illustrations on parchment, and a grandmother’s secret room is…better kept a secret. Tales of struggle and triumph, compassion and hope: Community of Magic Pens is a celebration of our shared story.

What will you see written when the pens speak?

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