<div>&ldquo;A remarkable novel&rdquo; of a post-Communist Russia filled with gangsters and oligarchs, and one man&rsquo;s shady business deal that could land him in a world of trouble (The Boston Globe). Part speculative fiction, part satire, Let&rsquo;s Put the Future Behind Us is a romp through 1990s Russia, as the closed society of the Soviet Union morphs into a modern capitalist free-for-all and Max Borodin finds himself, his wife, and his mistress in mortal danger&mdash;in &ldquo;a world of petty bureaucrats, shameless opportunists, and full-blown mafiosi&rdquo; (Entertainment Weekly). &ldquo;An absurdist thriller narrated by one Max Borodin, an ex-Communist Party hack who has re-invented himself as a commercial operator with a cynical understanding of how to manipulate the strings of power. Cops are paid off with dollar bills, bureaucrats with phoney documents and racketeers with the consumer opiates of their choice. Max is always up for the main chance, and before long finds himself logged into a drug deal involving psychotic Georgian gangsters, corrupt local entrepreneurs, the investors in a leaky crematorium and a messianic fascist demagogue who wants to build a plastic dome over Russia to secure it against &lsquo;Western sneak attacks.&rsquo; At the same time, he has to balance the demands of his irascible wife and voracious mistress while rescuing his gullible brother from the folly of building a &lsquo;Sovietland&rsquo; theme park.&rdquo; &mdash;Wired &ldquo;The grimmest, funniest, and one of the most cannily on-target accounts yet about the helter-skelter fast lane of life in the New Russia.&rdquo; &mdash;The Boston Globe</div>

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Let's Put the Future Behind Us

<div>A young Elvis Presley is kidnapped into the future to be the new messiah in this &ldquo;jarringly potent&rdquo; novel from the author of Ambient (William Gibson). Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award At once a biting satire and a taut sci-fi thriller, Elvissey is the story of Isabel and John, a troubled couple who are sent through a &ldquo;window&rdquo; from the year 2033 to a strangely altered 1954. They are on a desperate mission to kidnap a young Elvis Presley and bring him back to the present day to serve the powerful conglomerate Dryco as a ready-made cult leader. But when Elvis proves to be a reluctant messiah, things do not work out quite as planned. With his distinctive prose, Womack has combined &ldquo;serious sociological extrapolation, high and low comedy, pulp adventure, pop iconography&rdquo; and more in this highly original novel (Omni). &ldquo;Nazi flying saucers over an alternate 1950s Memphis, your basic cross-time godhead abduction of Elvis Presley, and what must surely be one of the flat-out weirdest Fisher King inversions yet perpetrated in American literature. Achingly sad, downright alarmingly funny, and just about as serious as any of us can presently afford to be.&rdquo; &mdash;William Gibson, author of Neuromancer &ldquo;Jack Womack is another of the heirs of cyberpunk, one of science fiction&rsquo;s most interesting new writers&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times &ldquo;Womack&rsquo;s book is different in tone and content from anything you may have read.&rdquo; &mdash;Financial Times &ldquo;Womack astounds and entertains. . . . Though the plot suggests the ridiculous, this is, in fact, a deep, often theological, reflection on love, betrayal and commercially inspired nihilism.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Elvissey

<div>One man struggles to survive in a dystopian near-future New York City in this acclaimed novel that &ldquo;performs feats of brilliance on so many levels&rdquo; (Entertainment Weekly). In a decaying and violent near-future New York, the remnants of civic order are maintained with brute force by the conglomerate Dryco. But even Dryco is falling apart from the inside. Seamus O&rsquo;Malley is bodyguard and confidant to Mister Dryden, the CEO, and an admirer of Dryden&rsquo;s personal femme fatale, Avalon. But what begins as a simple case of unrequited love quickly becomes a desperate chance for survival as corporate intrigue, murderous family rivalries, and perverse subcultures take over O&rsquo;Malley&rsquo;s life. Drawing comparisons to the nightmarish vision of J. G. Ballard and the linguistic brilliance of Anthony Burgess&rsquo;s A Clockwork Orange, Ambient marked the &ldquo;wonderfully inventive&rdquo; debut of Philip K. Dick Award&ndash;winning author Jack Womack (The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;Bleakly comic . . . A cynical tour de force through the meanest of streets. Ambient is less prophecy than documentary, demonstrating how the best science fiction is about as future-oriented as today&rsquo;s Daily News.&rdquo; &mdash;The Village Voice &ldquo;[Womack] succeeds in balancing blistering social commentary with shrewd literary experimentation . . . Flecked with black humor, this is speculative fiction at its eerie best.&rdquo; &mdash;Entertainment Weekly</div>

Ambient

<div>&ldquo;Futurist wunderkind Womack concludes his heralded Ambient series with this intriguing, clever novel set in an alternate, semi-historical 1968&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). It&rsquo;s 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time US government freelancer and collector of &ldquo;race records,&rdquo; stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and unsuspecting citizens. Walter&rsquo;s conscience never interferes with his work&mdash;until he&rsquo;s asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy&rsquo;s presidential campaign. The ghosts who&rsquo;ve moved into his apartment aren&rsquo;t much comfort. Then two outr&eacute; femmes fatales show up and frog-march Walter out of Max&rsquo;s Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their first song. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York&mdash;both his and theirs. Bringing his acclaimed Ambient series to a close, &ldquo;Womack has crafted a fast-moving, hipper-than-hip science fiction novel meshing the exuberant wordplay of Anthony Burgess with the high-concept what-if history Philip Dick made famous with The Man in the High Castle&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). &ldquo;A bizarre mating of William S. Burroughs and Robert Heinlein, though the over-the-top, hipster, first-person narration might also make readers think of Jack Kerouac channeled through P. G. Wodehouse.&rdquo; &mdash;The Oregonian &ldquo;Like Damon Runyon and James M. Cain, Jack Womack has a gift for inventing oddball language. . . . Daringly, scaringly distinct in contemporary fiction.&rdquo; &mdash;Philadelphia Weekly &ldquo;The action moves with amphetamine quickness, and Womack&rsquo;s surefooted control over his material completely sucks us in. . . . Has roots in the paranoid, conspiratorial bookends of Norman Mailer&rsquo;s near-delirious An American Dream and Thomas Pynchon&rsquo;s The Crying of Lot 49.&rdquo; &mdash;Bookforum</div>

Going, Going, Gone

<div>A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: In a dystopian future New York, a girl&rsquo;s diary chronicles her life as society begins to crumble around her. Until recently, Lola Hart&rsquo;s biggest problem was her annoying little sister. Now the twelve-year-old girl&rsquo;s once comfortable life is slowly falling apart. Her mother is a teacher, but she&rsquo;s lost her job. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. It&rsquo;s gotten so bad that they can no longer afford their Manhattan apartment or the tuition for Lola&rsquo;s exclusive private school. They move to a small apartment near Harlem, and Lola enrolls in public school&mdash;but the Harts aren&rsquo;t alone in their troubles. Riots, fires, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, and civil unrest have become commonplace, threatening the very fabric of life in New York. In the pages of her diary, Lola documents her family&rsquo;s attempts to adjust as the city and the country spin out of control. Jack Womack, a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut for his vivid prose and unbridled imagination. In this novel, &ldquo;Womack&rsquo;s stark vision of the United States&rsquo;s decline is an uncompromising satire that, perhaps even more than it did in the mid-1990s, forces us to confront a world instantly recognizable as our own&rdquo; (Los Angeles Review of Books). &ldquo;A heartrending coming-of-age story. Flecked with black humor, this is speculative fiction at its eerie best.&rdquo; &mdash;Entertainment Weekly</div>

Random Acts of Senseless Violence

<div>This &ldquo;toothy follow-up to Datlow&rsquo;s first-rate Blood Is Not Enough&rdquo; offers &ldquo;admirably inventive variations on vampirism&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews). Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a &ldquo;consistently engrossing anthology&rdquo; from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expand the boundaries of the concept of vampirism&mdash;as she did in her first collection, Blood Is Not Enough&mdash;Datlow has assembled eighteen fascinating stories that range from tales of literal vampires to what she calls &ldquo;metaphorical bloodsuckers,&rdquo; who can drain another&rsquo;s life force without ever sinking their teeth into necks. In &ldquo;Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep&rdquo; by Suzy McKee Charnas, an elderly Jewish woman who&rsquo;s taken her own life has second thoughts and makes a deal to become a vampire to stay immortal, the only condition being she has to drink blood by request only. An amnesiac operative tries to sort out if a secret government agency is trying to help him regain his memory or is wiping it clean in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro&rsquo;s Kafkaesque &ldquo;Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?&rdquo; And in Jonathan Carroll&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Moose Church,&rdquo; a tourist in Sardinia is literally scarred by asking questions of death in his dreams . . . A Whisper of Blood includes contributions by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Silverberg, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Massie, Barry N. Malzberg, Rick Wilber, Jonathan Carroll, Thomas Ligotti, Melissa Mia Hall, David J. Schow, Jack Womack, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Thomas Tessier, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, K. W. Jeter, Pat Cadigan, and Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth. </div>

A Whisper of Blood

<div>A World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others. The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term &ldquo;la petite mort,&rdquo; a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man&rsquo;s life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow collects twenty-two stories that explore the connection between sex and death. These stories range from the erotic to the psychological, all against a backdrop of horror. Authors include Lucy Taylor, Nicola Griffith, Kathe Koja, Richard Christian Matheson, Lucius Shepard, and many more.</div>

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Let's Put the Future Behind Us

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Going, Going, Gone

Random Acts of Senseless Violence

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