Errantry: Strange Stories (41 page)

Shirley Jackson Award winner ·
Publishers Weekly
Top 10 Best Books of the Year · io9 Best SF&F Books of the Year · Story Prize Notable Book · Tiptree Award Honor List · Philip K. Dick Award finalist

“Each tale is a beautifully written character study. . . . McHugh’s great talent is in reminding us that the future could never be weirder — or sadder — than what lurks in the human psyche. This is definitely one of the best works of science fiction you’ll read this year, or any thereafter.”

—Annalee Newitz, NPR

paper · $16 · 9781931520294 | ebook · $9.95 · 9781931520355

Recent and forthcoming short story collections and novels from

Small Beer Press for independently minded readers:

Joan Aiken,
The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories
“Wildly inventive, darkly lyrical, and always surprising.”
—Publishers Weekly
(starred review)

Nathan Ballingrud,
North American Lake Monsters: Stories

Ted Chiang,
Stories of Your Life and Others

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

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

“An exceptionally versatile author.”—
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Angélica Gorodischer,
Kalpa Imperial
(trans. Ursula K. Le Guin);

Trafalgar*
(trans. by Amalia Gladheart)

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

“I can’t think of any other writer whose stories terrify me the way Johnson’s do.”

—Lev Grossman

Nancy Kress,
Fountain of Age: Stories

“A master class in the art of short-story writing.”—
Kirkus Reviews

The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin

In two volumes:
Where on Earth
&
Outer Space, Inner Land

Kelly Link,
Magic for Beginners; Stranger Things Happen

Karen Lord,
Redemption in Indigo

Mythopoeic, Crawford, Carl Brandon Parallax, & Frank Collymore Award winner

Maureen F. McHugh,
After the Apocalypse: Stories

“Incisive, contemporary, and always surprising.”
—Publishers Weekly
Top 10 Books of 2011

Geoff Ryman,
Paradise Tales

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

Sofia Samatar,
A Stranger in Olondria

“A story of ghosts and books, treachery and mystery, ingeniously conceived and beautifully written. One of the best fantasy novels I’ve read in recent years.”—Jeffrey Ford (
The Girl in the Glass
)

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