Homage to Jean Genet's antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge. When millworkers in Roberval, a northern Quebec logging town, go on strike, the conflict rips the close-knit community apart, and despite the workers' solidarity, their individual struggles and demands further escalate tensions within the group. They remain united by the desire to escape poverty and exact revenge on their boss, but when Brian Ferland decrees a lockout and awakens in them a buried rage, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashingly cosmopolitan newcomer from Montreal. By day, Querelle walks the picket lines with his cohort, but at night he breaks bottles on the beach and settles scores with baseball bats and the town's privileged young men flock to his apartment for sex. As positions harden and both sides refuse to yield, sand stalls the gears of the economic machine and the tinderbox of class struggle and entitlement ignites in a firestorm of passions carnal and violent.

Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile, or what really happened to Ambrose Bierce. And ponder, if you can, the case of Simple Simon, who lost the only important thing he had-and never even missed it. Lean back, relax, take a long look at the world of Kersh. You may never recover.

The ISF Althaemenes was the first of its kind. A spacecraft capable of travelling the vast distances to other stars. But on its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri, all contact was lost and its crew never returned. Four years later, the United Earth Confederacy received the ship’s distress signal. Captain Helene Cross and the crew of the ISF Apemosyne are sent to determine what happened, and if possible, rescue the wayward explorers. However, there is no response from the crew and the mystery deepens when scans show that the supposedly stranded vessel is in full working order, leaving Helene and her team no other choice but to board and investigate. Soon, a maddening presence begins to stalk their minds, influencing their actions, threatening their very survival.The crew of the Apemosyne must discover the source of the madness and put an end to it if they are to have any hope of escape. The God Sun is a brutal and disturbing science-fiction perfect for fans of the Lovecraftian psychological horror of Event Horizon and the otherworldly terror of Dead Space.Nameless horrors inhabit the ultimate unknown of space. Preparation counts for nothing when the possibilities are infinite.

The ISF Althaemenes was the first of its kind. A spacecraft capable of travelling the vast distances to other stars. But on its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri, all contact was lost and its crew never returned. Four years later, the United Earth Confederacy received the ship’s distress signal. Captain Helene Cross and the crew of the ISF Apemosyne are sent to determine what happened, and if possible, rescue the wayward explorers. However, there is no response from the crew and the mystery deepens when scans show that the supposedly stranded vessel is in full working order, leaving Helene and her team no other choice but to board and investigate. Soon, a maddening presence begins to stalk their minds, influencing their actions, threatening their very survival.The crew of the Apemosyne must discover the source of the madness and put an end to it if they are to have any hope of escape. The God Sun is a brutal and disturbing science-fiction perfect for fans of the Lovecraftian psychological horror of Event Horizon and the otherworldly terror of Dead Space.Nameless horrors inhabit the ultimate unknown of space. Preparation counts for nothing when the possibilities are infinite.

At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners," tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary Abberkam, the callow "space brat" Solly, the haughty soldier Teyeo, and the Ekumen historian and Hainish exile Havzhiva, freedom and duty both begin in the heart, and success as well as failure has its costs. In this stunning collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of America's most honored and respected authors.

At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into "assets" and "owners," tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully human. For the disgraced revolutionary Abberkam, the callow "space brat" Solly, the haughty soldier Teyeo, and the Ekumen historian and Hainish exile Havzhiva, freedom and duty both begin in the heart, and success as well as failure has its costs. In this stunning collection of four intimately interconnected novellas, Ursula K. Le Guin returns to the great themes that have made her one of America's most honored and respected authors.

Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original, so bone-chillingly terrifying, that it instantly alters the landscape of contemporary horror fiction. Hungarian author Attila Veres’ debut collection The Black Maybe is one of those books. This volume collects ten of his best tales in English for the first time, ranging from weird fiction like ‘In the Snow, Sleeping’, in which a couple’s vacation to a health spa erodes into a surreal nightmare, to folk horror like ‘Return to the Midnight School’, in which the things that emerge from the soil in one rural farming community are bizarre and horrific, to Lovecraft-inspired tales like ‘Multiplied by Zero’, written as a wry travelogue in which a man sets out on a deadly holiday tour to explore Lovecraftian landscapes. And in the title story ‘The Black Maybe’, which Steve Rasnic Tem calls ‘one of the weirdest tales I’ve read in years’, a girl and her family escape the bustling city to experience farm life, only to discover with unimaginable horror the truth of what is really being harvested there. These stories are thrilling, frightening, sometimes blackly humorous, and totally unlike anything you have read before. As Tem writes in the introduction, ‘Given both the range and originality of his dark fiction, Attila Veres’ career is one to watch.’ After reading this book, we have no doubt that readers will agree.

Romanul unei revoluții fără început și sfârșit. Două planuri, unul din secolul al XIX-lea, celălalt din prezentul secolului al XXI-lea, se împletesc în niște circumstanțe extra-ordinare. Emin și Max Murgescu, zis Macu, un soi de afacerist obsedat de Eminescu, se caută continuu prin timp și spațiu. Iar strașnica jurnalistă Louise e centrul de greutate în această tatonare fără sfârșit. Coincidențele răsar parcă de nicăieri, contextele istorice și socio-politice capătă profunzime, crizele și corupțiile se adâncesc, măștile cad încet-încet, iar solomonarul nu face decât să strângă menghina și mai puternic. Solomonarul, noul roman al lui Florin Chirculescu, o carte-eveniment, pune reflectorul pe celălalt Eminescu, reușind să-l umanizeze așa cum niciun text nu a făcut-o până acum. „În literatura română de azi, Solomonarul este un obiect fascinant. Roman istoric și roman al actualității, roman despre Eminescu și roman despre zonele de turbulență ale lumii contemporane, roman despre obsesiile naționale și roman gândit la o scară planetară, roman plin de idei și roman traversat de aventuri și conspirații, roman realist și roman fantastic, roman cu o arhitectură riguroasă și roman deschis explorărilor ca o cutie misterioasă, Solomonarul activează portaluri pe care literatura română nu le-a cunoscut până la Florin Chirculescu.“ Mihai Iovănel „După Greva păcătoșilor, Florin Chirculescu revine cu un roman remarcabil din toate punctele de vedere: Solomonarul. Documentarea minuțioasă și erudiția se contopesc cu ficțiunea, realitățile particulare se toarnă într-o formă universală, fie că sunt surprinse în prezentul foarte apropiat, în trecutul cețos ori în viitorul glamorous, viziunea realistă se declină în sute de nuanțe, dar și în inserții fantastice, științifice, culturale, pop ș.a.m.d., stilul inconfundabil al scriitorului – frazarea rafinată, decupajul, oralitatea, interferențele, naturalețea și ușurința cu care jonglează cu toate acestea – se imprimă pe fiecare pagină. Grosso modo, Solomonarul are o complexitate narativă năucitoare. Deschide multe uși. Iar după acest tur de forță, cititorul și-l va aminti pe Eminescu altfel. Și nu doar pe el.“ Eli Bădică coordonatoarea colecției n’autor

In Earthsong, the trilogy’s long-awaited finale, the Aliens have abandoned Earth, taking their technologies with them and plunging the planet into economic and ecological disaster. Devastated, the women decide to take their failed Láadan project back underground, desperately seeking guidance from their long-dead foremothers. The women discover an ingenious solution to the problem of human violence and seek to spread their knowledge—but has their final solution come too late?