Fire Logic (49 page)

—Cheryl Morgan,
Emerald City

“
Earth Logic
is intelligent, splendidly visualized, and beautifully written. Laurie Marks’s use of language is really tremendous.”

—Paula Volsky

“A dense and layered book filled with complex people facing impossible choices. Crammed with unconventional families, conflicted soldiers, amnesiac storytellers, and practical gods, the story also finds time for magical myths of origin and moments of warm, quiet humor. Against a bitter backdrop of war and winter, Marks offers hope in the form of various triumphs: of fellowship over chaos, the future over the past, and love over death.”

—Sharon Shinn

“A powerful and hopeful story where the peacemakers are as heroic as the warriors; where there is magic in good food and flower bulbs; and where the most powerful weapon of all is a printing press.”

—Naomi Kritzer

Water Logic

“How gifts from the past, often unknown or unacknowledged, bless future generations; how things that look like disasters or mistakes may be parts of a much bigger pattern that produces greater, farther-reaching good results.”

—
Booklist
(Starred Review)

“Finely drawn characters and a lack of bias toward sexual orientation make this a thoughtful, challenging read.”

—
Library Journal

“Marks’s characters are real people who breathe and sleep and sweat and love; the food has flavor and the landscape can break your heart. You don’t find this often in any contemporary fiction, much less in fantasy: a world you can plunge yourself into utterly and live in with great delight, while the pages turn, and dream of after.”

—Ellen Kushner

“Frankly, it’s mind-bending stuff, and refreshing.”

—James Schellenberg,
The Cultural Gutter

“Marks plays the fantasy of her unfolding epic more subtly here than in previous volumes, and the resulting depiction of intransigent cultures in conflict, rich with insight into human nature and motives, will resonate for modern readers.”

—
Publishers Weekly

Recent and forthcoming short story collections and novels from
Small Beer Press for independently minded readers:

Ted Chiang,
Stories of Your Life and Others

“Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales”—Junot Díaz (
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
)

Alan DeNiro,
Tyrannia and Other Renditions

Hal Duncan,
An A-Z of the Fantastic City

“Loving, clever, entertaining, and of course as we expect from Hal Duncan, quite excellently written.”—
Locus

Karen Joy Fowler,
What I Didn’t See and Other Stories

“An exceptionally versatile author.”—
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
· World Fantasy Award winner

Trafalgar
(trans. Amalia Gladhart)

“I found it delightful. Thought-provoking. Impressive. Brilliant.”—Liz Bourke, Tor.com

Elizabeth Hand,
Errantry: Stories

“Elegant nightmares, sensuously told.”—
Publishers Weekly

Generation Loss: a Cass Neary novel

“Postpunk attitude and dark mystery.” —George Pelecanos

Kij Johnson,
At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories

“Thought-provoking . . . emotionally wrenching stories.”—
Publishers Weekly,
Best Books of the Year

Kathe Koja,
Under the Poppy

“All the elements of a great novel are present in Koja’s work: from suspense and intrigue to undying love and toxic jealousies, this highly developed read is brimming with imaginative flair and originality.”—
Lambda Literary
· Gaylactic Spectrum Award winner

Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin: Vol. 1: Where on Earth; Vol. 2: Outer Space, Inner Lands

“She is the reigning queen of . . . but immediately we come to a difficulty, for what is the fitting name of her kingdom? Or, in view of her abiding concern with the ambiguities of gender, her queendom, or perhaps—considering how she likes to mix and match—her quinkdom? Or may she more properly be said to have not one such realm, but two?”—Margaret Atwood,
New York Review of Books

Kelly Link,
Magic for Beginners; Stranger Things Happen

Karen Lord,
Redemption in Indigo

Mythopoeic, Crawford, & Frank Collymore Award winner

Laurie J. Marks,

Maureen F. McHugh,
After the Apocalypse: Stories

Shirley Jackson Award winner ·
Publishers Weekly
Top 10 Best of the Year

Geoff Ryman,
Paradise Tales

“Includes one of the most powerful stories I’ve read in the last 10 years.”
—New York Times
· Sunburst Award winner

The Child Garden

“An exuberant celebration of excess set in a resource-poor but defiantly energetic 21st century.”—
New York Times
· Cambell Clarke Award winner

Was

“A moving lament for lost childhoods and an eloquent tribute to the enduring power of art.”—Michiko Kakutani,
New York Times

Sofia Samatar,
A Stranger in Olondria

“Samatar’s sensual descriptions create a rich, strange landscape, allowing a lavish adventure to unfold that is haunting and unforgettable.”—
Library Journal
(starred review)

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