Elizabeth Hand, Author . Morrow $24.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-06-105170-8
Hand (Black Light
) explores the theme of artistic inspiration and its dangerous devolvement into obsession and madness through three interwoven narrative threads in this superb dark fantasy novel. In late Victorian England, American painter...
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Elizabeth Hand, Author Viking 15.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-670-01212-1
In this enchanting fantasy with a romance far more taboo than the current spate of paranormal pairings, Madeline and Rogan are 14-year-old first cousins and deeply in love. Their great-grandmother was a famous actress and although her descendants...
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Elizabeth Hand, Author Spectra Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28772-1
This first novel is a richly imagined work set in a Washington, D.C., devastated by nuclear and biological warfare. Society is rigidly stratified: the Ascendants, absentee rulers who were responsible for the devastation; the Curators, who tend the...
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Elizabeth Hand, Author Spectra Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-56288-0
Though billed as a novel about the Earth imperiled by a colliding asteroid, and though such an asteroid, called Icarus, does indeed threaten the planet in Hand's third novel, readers should not expect a familiar near-future disaster thriller....
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Elizabeth Hand, Author Eos $13 (324p) ISBN 978-0-06-105348-1
What shines through nearly all of the 11 stories and one poem in this fine collection, besides the beautiful writing, are healthy doses of skepticism about the intrinsic goodness of both mystical phenomena and scientific progress. The anthology...
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Elizabeth Hand, Author HarperPrism $19 (390p) ISBN 978-0-06-105214-9
When Sweeney Cassidy, a naive freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, D.C., falls in with the wrong crowd, she is expelled for taking part in a lurid escapade. But Hand (Icarus Descending) offers no usual...
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Elizabeth Hand, Author HarperPrism $22 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-100805-4
Fresh from her Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Waking the Moon, Hand extrapolates a brutal vision of Apocalypse 1999. Present-day social and scientific calamities--environmental collapse, the AIDS epidemic, global warming--meld into...
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Elizabeth Hand, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (276p) ISBN 978-0-06-105266-8
Hand does for upstate New York what Stephen King has done for rural Maine in this well-written but decidedly creepy dark fantasy about a Bohemian bedroom community and artists' colony located about an hour from Manhattan by train. Seventeen-year-old
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Elizabeth Hand. Open Road, $4.99 e-book (94p) ISBN 978-1-5040-0718-4
Hand (Available Dark), restricted by her choice of structure, struggles to turn this novella into something more than a comfortably familiar haunted house story. The work is framed as a set of interviews for a documentary film about the band...
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Elizabeth Hand. Mulholland, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-48592-0
The discovery of an ancient book of arcane lore bound in human skin and possibly written by Aristotle drives Hand’s enjoyable if at times overplotted fourth Cass Neary thriller (after 2016’s Hard Light). Cass, a middle-aged punk photographer hooked...
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Elizabeth Hand, Author . Small Beer $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-931520-21-8
Hand (Mortal Love
) explores the narrow boundary between artistic genius and madness in this gritty, profoundly unsettling literary thriller. Cass "Scary" Neary, a self-destructive photographer, enjoyed her 15 minutes of fame snapping shots...
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Elizabeth Hand. Minotaur, $23.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-58594-5
Hand has described Cass Neary, the protagonist of 2007’s Generation Loss, as “your prototypical amoral speedfreak crankhead kleptomaniac murderous rage-filled alcoholic bisexual heavily tattooed American female photographer.” It’s to the author’s...
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Elizabeth Hand. Viking, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-01135-3
Hand (Illyria) returns with a surreal tale of art’s ability to transcend time. In 1978, Merle Tappitt, a talented painter and graffiti artist, is kicked out of art school (where she had been having an affair with a teacher). Merle takes to the...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-354-9
Fall is the traditional time for ghost stories, and readers will find a wealth of unnatural shades and haunted places in this far-ranging anthology of 29 reprints and Stephen Graham Jones’s grim original “Uncle.” Richard Bowes’s “There’s a Hole in...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-359-4
This satisfying reprint anthology of winter-holiday-themed SF and fantasy avoids syrupy sweetness, instead evoking an older, bittersweet tradition of the cycle of death and rebirth. James Patrick Kelly’s posthuman “The Best Christmas Ever” sets the...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-607013-15-0
This collection of 24 stories, ranging from new works to decades-old Hugo nominees, unevenly evokes rock music’s legacy of pushing boundaries and railing against the establishment ethos. In Lawrence C. Connolly’s evocative “Mercenary,” sniper and...
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Elizabeth Hand. Small Beer (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-61873-030-5
Ten evocative novellas and stories whisper of hidden mysteries carved on the bruised consciousness of victims and victimizers. Memories and love are as dangerous as the supernatural, and Hand often denies readers neat conclusions, preferring...
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Elizabeth Hand. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-03038-2
Last seen in 2012’s Available Dark, photographer Cass Neary is a wreck in Hand’s loosely plotted third outing for the middle-aged, rock and roll–loving alcoholic and depressive druggie. Having escaped mysteriously from a reunion in Iceland with long-
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Elizabeth Hand. Mulholland, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-3164-8588-3
Spunky 14-year-old Pin, the heroine of this atmospheric crime novel from Shirley Jackson Award–winner Hand (Hard Light) set in early 20th-century Chicago, struggles to survive with her single mother, the fortune-teller at the Riverview Amusement...
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Elizabeth Hand. Subterranean, $45 (560p) ISBN 978-1-64524-005-1
The 14 stories of this superior collection showcase the versatility of World Fantasy and Nebula Award–winner Hand (the Cass Neary series) while demonstrating an ear for prose that elevates genre tropes to transcendent levels. In “Last Summer at Mars
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Elizabeth Hand. Mulholland, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-54204-3
Grady Kendall, the protagonist of this atmospheric if flawed thriller from Hand (Curious Toys), escapes his depressing life in Maine to become the caretaker for billionaire Wes Minton’s mansion on the beautiful but perilous Hawaiian volcanic...
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Elizabeth Hand. Mulholland, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-52732-3
This riveting tale from Nebula Award winner Hand (Hokuloa Road) eerily, if sometimes unevenly, updates and riffs on Shirley Jackson’s classic ghost story The Haunting of Hill House. Twenty years ago, tragedy derailed Holly Sherwin’s burgeoning...
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Edited by Ellen Datlow. Titan, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-78909-715-3
Winner of Multiple Hugo Awards, Datlow (Final Cuts) brings together 18 outstanding, atmospheric horror shorts from some of the biggest names in the genre—including Carmen Maria Machado, Stephen Graham Jones, and Joyce Carol Oates—in tribute to the...
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Edited by Jonathan Strahan. Solaris, $18.99 trade paper (420p) ISBN 978-1-78618-509-9
The 16 stories in this star-studded anthology, all but two original to this volume, inventively explore the science fictional possibilities of the time-travel romance. Strahan (The Book of Dragons) assembles a stellar lineup of talents who work...
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