Jonathan Strahan. Night Shade (www.nightshadebooks.com), $19.99 trade paper (500p) ISBN 978-1-59780-345-8
Strahan’s sixth annual genre-spanning anthology lacks the clarity (or perhaps narrowness) of purpose of a series focusing solely on fantasy or SF, but the 31 selections demonstrate a knowledge of and affection for the fantastic that rival editors...
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Ellen Klages, Author . Viking $16.99 (321p) ISBN 978-0-670-06134-1
Klages makes an impressive debut with an ambitious, meticulously researched novel set during WWII. Writing from the points of view of two displaced children, she successfully recreates life at Los Alamos Camp, where scientists and mathematicians...
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Ellen Klages, Author . Viking $16.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-06235-5
Picking up a year after the close of The Green Glass Sea
, this strong sequel finds Suze and Dewey (short for Duodecima) living near Los Alamos with Suze’s scientist parents, who with Dewey’s late father had helped build the atom bomb....
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Ellen Klages, Author, Neil Gaiman, Introduction by , intro. by Neil Gaiman. Tachyon $14.95 (210p) ISBN 978-1892391452
Klages, whose debut novel, The Green Glass Sea
(2006), won the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, demonstrates both superior writing skill and a wide range in an impressive short story collection that defies easy categorization. The 16...
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Ellen Klages. Viking, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-288597
Ten-year-old Kathleen Curie Gordon’s knuckling curveball is so good it wins her a Little League tryout—wearing her cap, Katy can pass as a boy. She makes the team but is outed by another player’s parent; it’s 1957 and league rules expressly prohibit
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Ellen Klages. Tachyon, $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-61696-261-6
Magical stories unfurl with marvelous subtlety in this delightful collection from Klages (The Green Glass Sea). Some are set in a variant of our own world, including “The Education of a Witch,” which builds a small girl’s fondness for Maleficent up...
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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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