Since 2001, Small Beer Press, an independent publishing house, has published satisfying and surreal novels and short story collections by award-winning writers and exciting talents whose names you may never have heard, but whose work you’ll never be able to forget:
Joan Aiken, The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories
Poppy Z. Brite, Second Line: Two Short Novels of Love and Cooking in New Orleans
Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
Georges-Olivier Chateaureynaud, A Life on Paper (trans. Edward Gauvin)
John Crowley, Endless Things: A Novel of Ægypt
John Crowley, The Chemical Wedding*
Alan DeNiro, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
Hal Duncan, An A-Z of the Fantastic City*
Carol Emshwiller, The Mount
Carol Emshwiller, Report to the Men’s Club
Carol Emshwiller, Carmen Dog: a novel
Kelley Eskridge, Solitaire: a novel
Karen Joy Fowler, What I Didn’t See and Other Stories
Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales
Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial (trans. Ursula K. Le Guin)
Alasdair Gray, Old Men in Love: John Tunnock’s Posthumous Papers
Elizabeth Hand, Generation Loss
Julia Holmes, Meeks: a novel
Ayize Jama-Everett, The Liminal People: a novel*
John Kessel, The Baum Plan for Financial Independence
Kathe Koja, Under the Poppy: a novel
Nancy Kress, The Fountain of Age*
Ellen Kushner, The Privilege of the Sword
Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen; Trampoline (Editor); Magic for Beginners
Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo: a novel
Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic: a novel*
Laurie J. Marks, Earth Logic: a novel*
Laurie J. Marks, Water Logic: a novel
Eduardo Jiménez Mayo and Chris Brown, eds., Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories*
Vincent McCaffrey, Hound: a novel
Vincent McCaffrey, A Slepyng Hound to Wake: a novel
Maureen F. McHugh, Mothers & Other Monsters
Naomi Mitchison, Travel Light
Benjamin Parzybok, Couch: a novel
Benjamin Rosenbaum, The Ant King and Other Stories
Geoff Ryman, The King’s Last Song: a novel
Geoff Ryman, The Child Garden: a novel
Geoff Ryman, Was: a novel*
Geoff Ryman, Paradise Tales
Geoff Ryman, The Unconquered Country*
Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria*
Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak (Eds.), Interfictions 2
Jennifer Stevenson, Trash Sex Magic: a novel
Sean Stewart, Mockingbird: a novel
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle: a novel
Ray Vukcevich, Meet Me in the Moon Room
Kate Wilhelm, Storyteller
Howard Waldrop, Howard Who?
Big Mouth House Titles for Readers of All Ages
Joan Aiken, The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
Holly Black, The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
Lydia Millet, The Fires Beneath the Sea: a novel
Lydia Millet, The Shimmers in the Night: a novel*
Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze: a novel*
*Forthcoming
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
A twice-yearly fiction &c. zine (“Tiny, but celebrated”—Washington Post) edited by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant publishing writers such as Carol Emshwiller, Karen Joy Fowler, David J. Schwartz, Molly Gloss, and many others. (The Best of LCRW is available from Del Rey.) A multitude of subscription options—including chocolate—are available on our website.
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