LITERATURE

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. Learn More

Winner of a 2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Rikki Ducornet is beloved as a novelist and essayist, but is known perhaps most of all for her work as a writer of short stories. Learn More

Welcome to the future. The 21st century has come of age and it seems that everything that could have gone wrong has gone wrong Learn More

After a series of large-scale terrorist attacks, New York City is reduced to a shadow of its former self. As the city struggles to dig itself out of the wreckage, a nameless, obsessive-compulsive veteran with a spotty memory, a love for literature, and a strong if unique moral code has taken up residence at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library. Learn More

The Narrows is a steampunk fantasy novel full of magic bikes and law-breaking queers who face off against corporate bad guys and an imminent environmental catastrophe. Learn More

Following a devastating nuclear war, the Moral Reclamation government took over the world and forced its citizens to live by strictly puritanical rules—no premarital sex, drunkenness, or displaying of neon signs—all of which are reinforced through a constant barrage of messaging to the public. Learn More

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. Learn More

Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, Kim Stanley Robinson is known as not only the most literary but also the most progressive (read “radical”) of today’s top rank SF authors. His bestselling Mars Trilogy tells the epic story of the future colonization of the red planet, and the revolution that inevitably follows. The Years of Rice and Salt is based on a devastatingly simple idea: If the medieval plague had wiped out all of Europe, what would our world look like today? His latest novel, Galileo’s Dream, is a stunning combination of historical drama and far-flung space opera, in which the ten dimensions of the universe itself are rewoven to ensnare history’s most notorious torturers. Learn More

The 40th anniversary of a fantasy classic from Peter S. Beagle! Learn More