Robbed of their chance at leaving Earth to pursue green-energy innovations, Ryn embraces new dreams—fighting deep sea threats in conjunction with a giant cephalopod. It’s 2139 in the Cali-Coastal Corporate Zone, and Ryn struggles with their own body and brain as they fight to survive five days locked up with academic rivals and the military-backed billionaires who’ve misled them all since their teenage years.

Ryn needs an exit strategy but doesn’t know whether to trust Akira, the hacker-spy who may have saved their life, or Jay, the geeky military rebel with a secret stash of hot chocolate. Not to mention, Jay keeps falling asleep in their bed, and Ryn’s not sure if either of them is interested in more—but at least they like the same shows!

Five Days. One Ocean. Unlikely allies connect to Dream the Deep.

Cover illustration by Matthew Spencer.

Author Clara Ward will be donating 100% of their royalties from Dream the Deep to conservation efforts for our global ocean.

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New mother Panya lives in the perfectly controlled environment of Blocks 6-8, where all amenities are on site and goods are delivered by drone. Little Liber is perfect, their residence is fully enclosed, her world is regulated, sterilised, and safe.

Not that she’d tell anyone, but most of the time, Panya feels stretched to her limits. Isolated, failing to meet expectations, struggling to do the best she can. This is what she has to do to remain in this optimised community. It’s the way she’s told to take care of her child.

But Liber is struggling. She’s refusing to switch to eating nutribulbs, like everyone in their community. And people are starting to ask questions. Her partner. The doctors. The authorities. Besieged by norms and expectations, what choice does Panya have? The consequences could break her world.

Cover illustration by Ellen Burnett.

Reviews:

“Ex Partum is a dystopian novella reminiscent of The Giver while exploring parental anxieties and exhaustion, invasion of privacy, sacrifice for choice, unlearning and relearning, corporate greed, and over-confidence and reliance on tech. Burnett delivers a heartrending story that illuminates the flaws of every society as well as ourselves.” —Ai Jiang, author of Linghun and A Palace Near the Wind

“A sharp and often uncomfortable read of a dystopian future where people have been led by evil corporations, to the extent of having their entire lifestyles and mindsets brainwashed. Likewise, it’s a harrowing tale of a young mother struggling to feed her child and find her own muddled identity. Read this and reflect because such behaviours are evident even now and we often turn an indifferent eye at marginalised groups and post-partum depression.” —Joyce Chng, author of Wolf’s Path

“Ex Partum is a brilliant and characterful examination of parenting in dystopia.” —Miles Cameron, author of Artifact Space

“emma burnett’s Ex Partum is a gripping read that pulls you screaming through its ultracorporate dystopia and then deposits you, shivering with relief, before the promise of a better world. But the book isn’t just an SFF must-read. It’s a deeply human, almost claustrophobically intimate portrait of what it takes to care for an infant—and yourself—when everybody else cares only for conformance.” —Stewart C Baker, author of The Butterfly Disjunct

“Ex Partum is a gripping debut novella exploring corporate control and the sterile loneliness of gentrified motherhood. It feels familiar yet prescient, dystopian yet grounded. emma burnett creates characters we identify with and root for, in a futuristic world not far from our own.” —Vivian Chou, speculative fiction author

“Ex Partum presents a harrowing extrapolation of today’s societal trends. What do we lose when we choose convenience over reason? Who suffers when we allow corporations unlimited control of our world? This story hit me on a visceral level, as the plight of new mother Panya resonated with my own slough through early motherhood. Author emma burnett lays bare an all-too-plausible future—and shows that, even in an entrenched corporatocracy, hope can still sprout in the margins. —Myna Chang, author of The Potential of Radio and Rain

“Ex Partum is a clever dystopian parable about corporate exploitation and dysfunctional relationships seen through the eyes of a vulnerable new mother as she fights against the machine. Highly plausible and engaging, it illustrates the disempowering and dehumanising potential of technology in the wrong hands.” —Eve Smith, author of The Cure and One

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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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Shad-Dari has escaped her past, her dreams now in reach. An excavator of the valuable old sounds of Órino-Rin, she steals tiny, unheard fragments of the sacred songs to erase the painful echo of her home planet, Ekwukwe. In one rebellion too far, she sets off a chain of events that severs her from time itself, forcing her, without another way forward, to face her past.

Accolades

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

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

Media

Harare Review of Books

Reviews

“Set in the Sauúti universe and tightly packed with rich worldbuilding, Songs for the Shadows is crafted in beautiful prose and depth, meditating on silence and sound and song as powerful cultural entities—a magic system of sound excavation and the folding and manipulation of time that blew me away!”–Tlotlo Tsamaase, Caine Prize Finalist and author of Womb City

“In Songs for the Shadows, Ntumy continues the work of the Sauúti Collective, in immersing the reader into an expansive and complex world in which the magic and power of the oral—prayers, wails, chants, songs, words, and therefore stories—have been elevated to the most valued cultural artifacts. I was mesmerized by this world and by the rule-breaking, self-inventing Shad-Dari who, in seeking to drown out the echoes of her past loses everything she thought she needed.” –Gothataone Moeng, 2024 Whiting Award winner for Call and Response: Stories

“Cheryl’s writing is magical, lyrical and breath-taking. Imagine a world created by and out of sound – and that sound is linked to our very beings. Plus the beautiful evocations on the non-linearity of time and how we deal with the voices from the past. Bravo!” –Joyce Chng, author of Fire Heart

“Vivid, immersive and otherworldly. Songs for the Shadows takes us on a journey into the depths of shifting sound and reality, and connecting with that which can both destroy and heal us. Time shaped by sound, sound out of time, this is a novella that builds to an emotional crescendo.” –Stephen Embleton, 2024 Best Novella Nommo Award Winner

Cover Illustration by Akintoba Kalejaye

Cover Design and Cover Typography by Stephen Embleton

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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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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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A Spatial Surprise is an all-ages sci-fi novella about imagination, discovery, and big dreams. Written for middle grade readers, this tale, told by a 12-year-old author, holds just as much charm for adults or for families to read together.

Cover Art: Geneva Bowers

Podcast: author Symthasree Sarojini Koganti discusses A Spatial Surprise on Pondo’s Playground in 2019.

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