<div>These &ldquo;superbly crafted tales&rdquo; showcase the World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning author&rsquo;s &ldquo;beautifully nuanced, often disquieting style&rdquo; (Booklist). America boasts no finer, more acclaimed or accomplished literary fantasist than Elizabeth Hand. Poetry, magic, and love intermingle as she tears down the walls that separate the mundane from faerie and fancy. In this stunning collection of eight &ldquo;strange stories,&rdquo; the multiple Nebula Award&ndash; and World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning author weaves spells that enrapture her readers, ranging freely from Greek mythology to the contemporary nightmares of AIDS and 9/11. The celebrated chiller &ldquo;Cleopatra Brimstone&rdquo; chronicles the aftermath of a brutal rape and the bizarre transformation of a young entomology student into a vengeful angel of death. An emotionally unmoored tattoo artist discovers an unusual deck of tarot cards that enables her to profoundly alter bare skin and her personal reality in the mind-expanding masterwork &ldquo;The Least Trumps.&rdquo; An artist attempts to capture her wayward modern-day Odysseus in oils and otherwise; a woman tragically in love isolates herself from a catastrophe-prone world; the death of a dear friend inspires profound personal reflections and strange pagan rituals; and in the brilliant concluding story, an artifact from a lost world reveals the inescapable vulnerability of our own. Odd and touching, provocative and disturbing, the selections in this magnificent collection showcase a master of the fantastic at the very peak of her storytelling powers.</div>

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Saffron and Brimstone

<div>The &ldquo;sensuous and evocative&rdquo; debut of the Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of Waking the Moon: A dystopian journey through a world unburdened by moral taboos (Library Journal). Set in the surreal, post-apocalyptic City of Trees, Winterlong centers on Wendy Wanders, a girl who can tap into the dreams and emotions of the people around her, and her long-lost twin brother, Raphael, a seductive, sacred courtesan to the City&rsquo;s decadent elite. During their voyage, they encounter man-made and godlike monstrosities&mdash;both hideous and gorgeous&mdash;in their effort to stop an ancient power from consuming all. Blending science fiction and fantasy, Winterlong is a dark fairy tale about a land where societal and sexual taboos have disappeared, and what&rsquo;s left is a world that is both lyrical and terrifying, familiar and striking. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Winterlong

<div>Literary spins on the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres&mdash;from Karen Joy Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, China Mi&eacute;ville, and many more. Over the past three decades, the most adventurous practitioners of the literary arts of science fiction, fantasy, and horror have been transforming those genres into something all but unrecognizable. In Conjunctions&rsquo; game-changing New Wave Fabulists issue, guest editor Peter Straub has put together an anthology of innovative literary reinventions of traditional &ldquo;pulp&rdquo; forms. Contributors range from Jonathan Lethem to Neil Gaiman, from John Crowley to Kelly Link, from Elizabeth Hand to China Mi&eacute;ville. Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute contribute essays on the ongoing evolution of genre, while the brilliant cartoonist Gahan Wilson has created the cover and original frontispieces for each story.</div>

The New Wave Fabulists

<div>The companion volume to the provocative Alien Sex anthology, Off Limits pushes boundaries with twenty stimulating tales of otherworldly encounters This second volume of the Alien Sex anthology series brings together authors Neil Gaiman, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth Hand, and many others to explore the mysteries of sex, alien and human alike. From an alien spy who falls in love with one of the earthlings he&rsquo;s monitoring, to a woman whose souvenir dream-catcher calls to her bedroom more than she bargained for, to a genetically engineered sex object aboard a space station, these thought-provoking tales of alien sex open up new worlds for fantastical exploration. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Ellen Datlow, including rare photos from the editor&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Off Limits

<div>Short fiction that&rsquo;s &ldquo;poignant and terrifying by turns&rdquo;&mdash;including a Nebula and World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning novella (Publishers Weekly). Twelve exceptional stories by the multiple award&ndash;winning author of Waking the Moon and Black Light prove that Elizabeth Hand is just as adept with short fiction as she is in the novel form. The title story traces a world-changing summer at a New England artists&rsquo; colony for young Shadowmoon Starlight Rising, who comes to know life, death, and an unbelievable secret about the strange apparitions that dwell in her community. Other stories include &ldquo;Snow on Sugar Mountain,&rdquo; which features a young boy who has the power to shapeshift into any form with the help of a Native American artifact; &ldquo;The Bacchae,&rdquo; in which womankind rules a savage futuristic version of our world; and &ldquo;The Erl-King,&rdquo; where a fairy tale horrifyingly comes true. Each story includes an afterword by the author. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Last Summer at Mars Hill

<div>A father and his autistic son awaken an unlikely Spirit of Christmas Past in this moving short novel nominated for the World Fantasy Award. When Brendan touches his four-year-old son, Peter screams and pulls away. He suffers from a form of autism known as Pervasive Developmental Disorder and has no idea how much his father longs to make him laugh. Their relationship is heartbreaking for Brendan, especially with Christmas on the horizon. An unlikely harbinger of the holidays arrives in the form of Tony Kemper, Brendan&rsquo;s childhood friend who&rsquo;s never quite gotten over his glory days as a 1970s punk sensation. Broke, unemployed, and homeless, Tony has recently become obsessed with the long-canceled Chip Crockett Show, a beloved television series from their childhood. Not a minute of footage remains of Chip, but these three companions are about to discover that when an entertainer is truly great, his magic lasts forever. </div>

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Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol

<div>A decadent tale of ancient darkness that &ldquo;does for upstate New York what Stephen King has done for rural Maine,&rdquo; from the author of Waking the Moon (Publishers Weekly). Lit Moylan lives what she thinks is an ordinary life. Sure, her town has a few eccentric theater types, but that&rsquo;s all. That is until her Warholian godfather, Axel Kern, moves into the big house on the hill. He throws infamously depraved parties, full of drinks, drugs, and sex. But they also have a much more sinister purpose. At one of these parties, Lit touches a statue, and learns she has much more of a role to play in this world than she ever thought possible. Ornate and decadent, Black Light visits an irresistible world of ancient gods and secret societies as enthralling as it is dangerous. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

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Black Light

<div>Elizabeth Hand&rsquo;s Winterlong trilogy continues: Welcome to Araboth In Aestival Tide,Elizabeth Hand returns to the extraordinary Winterlong universe. In Araboth&mdash;the majestic, domed, multi-tiered city of the Ascendants&mdash;obsession with beauty and power vents in haunting, horrific ways. The resurrected Margalis Tast&rsquo;annin has become the Aviator Imperator of the Ascendants, enslaved by his former lover and exiled to the debauched city of Araboth. And the city that was once home to an advanced society is now a shadow of its former self. Now, as the once-in-a-decade Aestival Tide approaches, the formerly great dome teeters on the brink of its own destruction. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Aestival Tide

<div>The complete dystopian trilogy set in the surreal, postapocalyptic City of Trees from a recipient of the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. Winterlong centers on Wendy Wanders, a girl who can tap into the dreams and emotions of the people around her, and her long-lost twin brother, Raphael, a seductive, sacred courtesan to the City&rsquo;s decadent elite. During their voyage, they encounter man-made and godlike monstrosities&mdash;both hideous and gorgeous&mdash;in their effort to stop an ancient power from consuming all. In Aestival Tide, Araboth&mdash;the city that was once home to an advanced society&mdash;is now a shadow of its former self. As the once-in-a-decade Aestival Tide approaches, the formerly great dome teeters on the brink of its own destruction. And in Icarus Descending, open war rules both the earth and sky, and Wendy finds herself joining the rebel forces as they wait for the mythical and mysterious Icarus to turn the tide of the rebellion.</div>

The Winterlong Trilogy

<div>A Gothic fantasy set on a college campus from the author of Wylding Hall: &ldquo;The unstoppable narrative just might make Waking the Moon a cult classic. Literally&rdquo; (Spin). Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties. And she certainly doesn&rsquo;t suspect that underneath its picturesque Gothic fa&ccedil;ade, the University is a haven for the Benandanti, a cult devoted to suppressing the powerful and destructive Moon Goddess. But everything is about to change as Sweeney learns that her two new best friends are the Goddess&rsquo;s Chosen Ones. Rich and engrossing, Waking the Moon is a seductive post-feminist thriller that delves into an ancient feud, where the real and magical collide, and one woman is forced to make a decision that will change the world. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Waking the Moon

<div>Wendy Wanders and Margalis return in the thrilling conclusion of the Winterlong trilogy&mdash;and their lives hang on one question: &ldquo;What is Icarus?&rdquo; Araboth is destroyed, open war rules both the earth and sky, and Margalis Tast&rsquo;annin sees himself as the last hope for the Ascendants as they fight against the dangerous energumens. Outside the destroyed City of Trees, Wendy Wanders finds herself joining the rebel forces as they wait for the mythical and mysterious Icarus to turn the tide of the rebellion. With the Philip K. Dick Award&ndash;nominated Icarus Descending, Elizabeth Hand completes the sensual dystopian Winterlong trilogy. And the explosive conclusion will reveal the final fates of geneslaves, the Ascendants, and the legendary combat leader Metatron as all eyes look to the sky for Icarus. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Icarus Descending

<div>This Shirley Jackson Award&ndash;winning novel is &ldquo;a true surreal phantasmagoria . . . [a] gothic supernatural&rdquo; horror story set in the decadent world of British rock (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro). When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will make their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: Julian Blake, the group&rsquo;s lead singer, disappears within the mansion and is never seen or heard from again. Now, years later, the surviving musicians, along with their friends and lovers&mdash;including a psychic, a photographer, and the band&rsquo;s manager&mdash;meet with a young documentary filmmaker to tell their own versions of what happened that summer. But whose story is true? And what really happened to Julian Blake?</div>

Wylding Hall

<div>New writings on our fear of&mdash;and fascination with&mdash;the &ldquo;other&rdquo; from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more. Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are &ldquo;other.&rdquo; Aliens are the stuff of science fiction and fantasy. Aliens are traditional literary figures that cause us to see ourselves anew. Indeed, when we witness our &ldquo;normal&rdquo; lives through these strangers&rsquo; eyes, we become the unfamiliar ones. Conjunctions:67, Other Aliens collects works of speculative and literary science fiction: innovative short stories, poetry, interviews, letters, and essays that explore the vast precincts of unfamiliarity, keen difference, weirdness, and not belonging. This provocative issue includes contributions from an all-star lineup, including Leena Krohn, Jeffrey Ford, Julia Elliott, John Crowley, Laura Sims, Valerie Martin, Lavie Tidhar, Samuel R. Delany, Matthew Baker, Paul Park, James Tiptree Jr., Michael Parrish Lee, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Madeline Bourque Kearin, Jean Muno, Jonathan Thirkield, John Clute and John Crowley, Joyce Carol Oates, S. P. Tenhoff, Brian Evenson, Jessica Reed, E. G. Willy, and James Morrow.</div>

Other Aliens

<div>Groundbreaking, provocative novels that challenge gender assumptions&mdash;in stories of aliens and humans, women and men, and the shifting nature of identity. The James Tiptree, Jr. Award was established to acknowledge works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore our understanding of gender. The three novels in this collection each embody that continually evolving challenge in boldly original and highly imaginative ways. A Woman of the Iron People: The inaugural winner of the Tiptree Award in 1991, this &ldquo;excellent, anthropologically oriented SF tale&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly) examines the fear and fascination on both sides when a group of human scientists discovers an advanced yet seemingly primitive alien culture. &ldquo;Fascinating . . . Very wise and funny . . . Full of complicated and irresistible people, some of them human.&rdquo; &mdash;Ursula K. Le Guin Waking the Moon: Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Elizabeth Hand serves up a seductive, post-feminist thriller in which a college freshman accidentally discovers the existence of the Benandanti, a clandestine order devoted to suppressing the powerful Moon Goddess and secretly manipulating the world&rsquo;s governments and institutions. &ldquo;A potent socio-erotic ghost story.&rdquo; &mdash;William Gibson Larque on the Wing: A middle-aged housewife&rsquo;s thoughts become reality when her rebellious inner child takes control, and she transforms herself into a fearless gay man. This is a moving, funny, surprising, and transcendent tale of one woman&rsquo;s unusual quest to come to terms with who she truly is. &ldquo;Springer effectively uses fantasy to evoke midlife soul-searching. . . . An engrossing novel about gender and self-formation.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Three Tiptree Award–Winning Novels

<div>&ldquo;If Stephen King set out to rewrite The Waste Land as a novel, the result might resemble Glimmering.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Climate change, rampant viruses, blackouts, fundamentalists&mdash;the end of the end has arrived. Glimmering, the 1994 dystopian novel by Nebula and World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning author Elizabeth Hand, is now timelier than ever. When the confluence of a solar storm and the collapse of the Antarctic ice shelf ignites the atmosphere like grease, those who are able hide behind their walls and masks, seeking the promise of a seductive&mdash;and dangerous&mdash;future. As the earth erupts in flames, department store heir and editor Jack Finnegan faces his own inevitable death from AIDS in his family&rsquo;s decrepit mansion near the Hudson River&mdash;that is, until an old friend offers him a miraculous cure . . . Christian singer Trip Marlowe has found worldwide success, but the dynamic rock star retains his strict morality and faith. Temptation comes in the form of a mysterious blond waif and IZE, a new drug more addictive than crack and heroin . . . The two men will find themselves on a bizarre collision course as a dark and powerful force seeks to shape what&rsquo;s left of humanity&rsquo;s consciousness. &ldquo;A brutal vision of Apocalypse . . . Hand&rsquo;s powerful vision of these days of wrath is not so much a protracted self-pitying whisper as a Nietzschean insistence on salvation through creative evolution.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;[A] wild, psychedelic, thoughtful thriller . . . Another dynamite read!&rdquo; &mdash;The Des Moines Register</div>

Glimmering

<div>In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America’s mighty capital. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of city-based noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city in the book. The original D.C. Noir, a groundbreaking collection of new fiction by sixteen different writers, displayed the curatorial prowess of bestselling author George Pelecanos. In D.C. Noir 2: The Classics, Pelecanos once again assembles an enchanting array of dark and subversive stories, this time selecting the very best of Washington’s historical literary legacy. Classic reprints from: Edward P. Jones, George Pelecanos, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, James Grady, Julian Mayfield, Marita Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Julian Mazor, Ward Just, Jean Toomer, Roach Brown, Larry Neal, and others. Praise for D.C. Noir 2 “By broadly interpreting what constitutes noir, Pelecanos has been able to include writers as diverse as Langston Hughes and Ward Just in this high-quality reprint anthology. In his introduction, Pelecanos describes his vision of “a century-long overview of D.C. fiction that would focus on issues of race, ethnicity, politics, class, and the attendant struggles and changes that occurred in various eras of our history.” —Publishers Weekly</div>

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