ColorlandHe said slowly, “You know how sometimes something happens, and afterwards you think what you could have should have done, if only you had the nerve and the confidence to do it, but of course by the time you think that, it’s too late.” Isolde nodded.Wenden mumbled, “Only, like, all the time.”“Well it’s like having the nerve and the confidence to do it straight off, at the moment you need to do it,” said Ridge.Life changes quickly from carefree, innoc...

Robert Rayner's latest novel based in New Brunswick shows how the encroachment of age in a rural community's life exposes it to the perils of progress. White Rock Island, an isolated rural community, becomes a defiant island of souls intent on preserving itself when it is threatened by economic decisions of the provincial and federal government which tax it but threaten to withhold services that would sustain the community. When a bigger, stronger entity threatens a much smaller one, the o...

When heavy November rains threaten to flood the small town of Black River, New Brunswick, the community calls on the hydroelectric company to open the gates of its dam and drop the water level. But local management has been overruled by their parent company and ordered to keep it closed. It's got some people hinting it's time they took things into their own hands.Seventeen-year-old Stanton Frame is caught in between: his father is manager at the dam, but his girlfriend, Je...

When three teenage friends oppose the annexation of their favourite beach by a prominent businessman and philanthropist, their efforts to keep it public are rebuffed or ignored. Their actions quickly move beyond conventional protest, despite the wa ings of an adult friend, the gentle, enigmatic Dexter Lully. As the friends, frustrated and desperate, are driven towards the dark, morally ambiguous world of direct action, one embraces it, one is thrust into it, and one teeters on the brink, a...

The Seashore Boarding House, nestled in the woods on the rocky shore of Pocomoonshine Bay in the late ’twenties, is a haven for travellers on the lonely dirt road nearby, and for the villagers and workers of the woods communities, offering shelter, food, first aid, abortions, and the comforts of its girls.At the centre of the house and its operations is the enigmatic figure of Nurse, who tells her girls, “You are nurses, as well as chamber maids, cooks, waitresses, and prostitutes....

When three teenage friends oppose the annexation of their favourite beach by a prominent businessman, their efforts to keep it public are rebuffed or ignored. Their actions quickly move beyond conventional protest, despite the warnings of an adult friend -- the gentle, enigmatic Dexter Lully. As the friends, frustrated and desperate, are driven towards the dark, morally ambiguous world of direct action, one embraces it, one is thrust into it, and one teeters on the brink, appalled at the w...

Dip into this charming collection of Teacup Magic cozy fantasy chaos, including a map, a timeline and a heap of author’s notes prettily written on flying paper birds.Including:“The Wedding Breakfast”“The Bramble Hour”“The Thornbury-Swift Letters”“Hotel Charybdis”“The Delphi College Letters”“Weddings for Peacocks”“Saucers & Sorcery”"A buoyant bubble of glittering delight, Saucers and Sorcery deepens my desire to run...

The Hathaways of Gramcercy Street have always been daredevils, cursebreakers, trouble. Don’t look now, but the ghosts are closing in…FAITH thinks she’s haunted by scandal and family expectations but no, it’s a bone witch. She’s being haunted by a bone witch.CHARITY throws herself at every haunted castle she can find, to avoid her disappointing marriage… but even an expert on ghosts can find herself out of her depth.IMOGEN fell in love with the victim of the...

Number 12, Acteon Place is more than just a London town house. It is a harbour for the most dangerous enchantress in Britannia. There are prisoners in the cellar. Mysterious magical experiments in the attic. A fairy killer on the loose. A hunted governess, desperate to protect the two children she betrayed.Other features of the house include an excellent cook. Exquisite wallpaper. Slightly homicidal carpet… depending who steps on it. And a yellow cat who provides more questions tha...

"Never speak the name of the Black Raven aloud. Never fail your sacred duty. Never trust magic. And never travel on the River Divine…"CALYX: Didn't mean to bind 3 assassins to her eternal magical servitude, but leaning into it. Has places to be, and a daughter to protect.IKAROS: Priest of death. Hates this river. Hates boats. Hates that Calyx's magic means he can't kill her. Abandoned by his god. Having a bad week.DIO: Not even supposed to be here, but kind of into ...

“We lived in a world that did not allow women to breathe; how could we be anything but monsters?”Tansy Rayner Roberts retells the stories of seven women from Greek mythology, giving voice to the scorned, the sidelined, and the monstrous.A young gorgon finds acceptance at the Medusa Club. Atalanta spills the truth behind the myth of the Argonauts. Scylla suffers through a series of terrible college roommates. Handmaids in Sparta get more than they bargained for when...

The September/October 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Natalia Theodoridou, DaVaun Sanders, Rati Mehotra, Beth Cato, Lavie Tidhar, Andrea Chapela (translated by Emma Törzs, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Miyuki Jane Pinckard. Essays by Greg Pak, Juliet Kemp, Premee Mohamed, and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, poetry by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja, Marissa Lingen, Linda D. Addison, and Simbo, Olumide Manuel, interviews with Rati Mehotra and Miyu...