Geoff Ryman writes about the other and leaves us dissected in the process. His stories are set in recognizable places-London, Cambodia, tomorrow-and feature men and women caught in recognizable situations (or technologies) and not sure which way to turn. They, we, should obviously choose what's right. But what if that's difficult? What will we do? What we should, or . . . ?Paradise Tales builds on the success of his most recent novel, The King's Last Song, and on the three Cambodia...

Solid backlist title that has consistently sold for 20 years.Coincidentally: it's a 20th anniversary edition!Designed to match Ryman's novel The King's Last Song and collection Paradise Tales.

**The long-awaited new book from multi-award winner Geoff RymanAn extraordinary science-fiction novel about identity, divinity and alternate reality – the story of the son of God.**“Women, of course, can not be sons of God,”In the village of Nazareth, virgin Maryam and the wife of Yosef barLevi gives birth to a miracle: a little girl. She is named Avigayil, after her grandmother.But as Avigayil grows, it’s clear she believes that she is destined to be someon...

Out of print for 5+ years.Core science fiction title: a precursor to a lot of biological science fiction in the years since.Part of our program to bring Ryman's earlier work into print over the next two seasons.Excellent addition to any global warming display.Recommended for lovers of the polar bears in Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.If music be the food of love, this is a feast.

"[Ryman] has not so much created as revealed a world in which the promise of redemption takes seed even in horror."—The Boston Globe“Sweeping and beautiful. . . . The complex story tears the veil from a hidden world.”—The Sunday Times“Inordinately readable . . . extraordinary in its detail, color and brutality.”—The Independent"Ryman has crafted a solid historical novel with an authentic feel for both ancient and modern Cambodia."—

"AIR is wonderful...Ryman is a true, graceful writer and this is a novel you move into and inhabit for as long as you can make it last" - Kit Reed"This book constantly surprised me ... great for a lot of seriously original ideas and a deep dive into the consequences" - Goodreads ReviewerMae Chung lives in the rice-farming village Kizuldah, in Karzistan. She's a self-styled fashion expert, guiding the villag...

WAS is the story of Dorothy. Orphaned as a child in the 1870s, she goes to live in Kansas with her Aunty Em and Uncle Henry. They face drought and poverty. They face each other. Alone, abused, Dorothy meets an itinerant actor called Frank and inspires a masterpiece.From the settling of the West and the heyday of the Hollwywood studios to the glittering megalopolis of modern Los Angeles, WAS is the story of all our childhoods."Every once in awhile I remember just how...

Each year Tesseract Books chooses a team of editors from amongst the best of Canada’s writers, publishers and critics to select innovative and futuristic fiction and poetry from the leaders and emerging voices in Canadian speculative fiction.Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction expands the dimensions of speculative fiction experientially, with startling visions of the future by new and established Canadian authors.Featuring twenty-three stories and poems by: Ti...

Twenty-eight doses of wonder, including contributions by Naomi Novik, Catherynne M. Valente, Elizabeth Bear, and Jeffrey Ford.From the distant past to the present day, from Antarctica and Mars to worlds that never were, the tales in this book bring news from nowhere-and everywhere. Fantasy is a mode of storytelling, a method of entertainment, a mode of argument, and a way of seeing. Here, presented by two of the most distinguished anthologists of the day, are twenty...

The discovery of forty reels of a lost 1911 movie adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, impossibly well-made and yet ineluctably old, is…weird. But for the journalist protagonist of "The Film-makers of Mars," that's only the beginning of the weirdness to come...Geoff Ryman's longer works include The Unconquered Country, the novella version of which won the World Fantasy Award in 1985; The Child Garden, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Awar...

What if you could sleep with anyone in the world, just by thinking about it?Michael Blasco, a young scientist, is waiting for the train when he spies a friend he fancies. Idly, he imagines Tony naked and an extraordinary thing happens – Tony strips there and then on the platform and offers himself in front of all onlookers. Horrified, Michael flees. But back home, Tony magically reappears. Then disappears, when Michael wishes him away.Michael sets out to test the parameters...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our September 2017 issue (#132)  contains: Original fiction by A. Brym ("Antarctic Birds"), Eric Schwitzgebel ("Little /^^^\&-"), Suzanne Palmer ("The Secret Life of Bots"), Jess Barber and Sara Saab ("Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics"),  and Gu Shi ("Möbius Con...