Jeffrey Ford, Author . Morrow $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-621126-8
Ford expertly created a surreal alternate landscape in his acclaimed fantasies The Physiognomy
and Memoranda; here, in his fourth novel, sepia-colored old New York is the fever-dream world. Piero Piambo is the portraitist of choice among New York
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Jeffrey Ford, Author . Golden Gryphon $23.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-930846-10-4
In World Fantasy Award–winner Ford's enchanting first story collection, proof abounds that a fresh perspective or inventive approach can give the most familiar themes fresh life and startling clarity. "Exo-Skeleton Town," set on a
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Jeffrey Ford, Author . Morrow $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-621127-5
A band of con artists–cum–spiritual mediums focus their psychic and sleuthing powers on a murder mystery in Ford's offbeat, thoroughly researched fifth novel (The Physiognomy
; The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque
; etc.), set in...
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Jeffrey Ford, Author . Morrow $25.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-06-123152-0
In Edgar-winner Ford’s disappointing sixth novel, the narrator—a nameless boy growing up on suburban Long Island in the mid-1960s—spends what remains of his summer vacation roaming the neighborhood with his older brother, Jim. At...
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Jeffrey Ford, Author . Harper Perennial $13.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-06-143506-5
Following close upon the release of The Shadow Year
, Edgar-winner Ford's third collection leads readers down dark and subtle passageways onto some very strange turf. In the title story, people drown and end up in a submerged city whose...
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Jeffrey Ford, Author Avon Books $12 (218p) ISBN 978-0-380-79331-0
Ruled by the Hitler-like Master Drachton Below according to the principles of Physiognomy (the ""science"" of judging the proportions of the flesh), the anti-utopian Well-Built City of Ford's goofily allegorical debut is already ripe for revolution...
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Jeffrey Ford, Author Eos $12 (240p) ISBN 978-0-380-80262-3
Last year, Ford's The Physiognomy won the World Fantasy Award for best novel. Here's a worthy sequel. In the first book, Physiognomist Cley helped bring about the destruction of the Well-Built City, a technological marvel where foreheads, cheekbones,
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Jeffrey Ford, Author Eos $24 (290p) ISBN 978-0-380-97897-7
Following The Physiognomy (1997), which won a World Fantasy Award, and Memoranda (1999), Ford completes the trilogy with a quest novel of fantastic adventure stronger on style than story. Cley, the erstwhile Physiognomist, First Class, who mentions...
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Jeffrey Ford. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-212259-9
Edgar-winner Ford's (The Girl in the Glass) latest is a collection of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and mystery tales that emerge from the "crackpot palace" of the author's macabre imagination. The 20 stories—most previously published—veer from tired...
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Jeffrey Ford. Small Beer, $16 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61873-118-0
Celebrated short-form fantasist Ford (The Physiognomy) seamlessly blends subtle psychological horror with a mix of literary history, folklore, and SF in this collection of 13 short stories, all focused on the struggles, sorrows, and terrors of daily
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Jeffrey Ford, Author, Jonathan Carroll, Introduction by . Golden Gryphon $24.95 (319p) ISBN 978-1-930846-39-5
In "Coffins on the River," one of several autobiographical stories in Ford's outstanding second collection of fantastic fiction (after 2002's The Fantasy Writer's Assistant
), the narrator remarks: "[T]he ideas would fly like
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Garth Nix, Author, Peter S. Beagle, Author, Jeffrey Ford, Author . Nightshade $14.95 (263p) ISBN 978-1-59780-117-1
Each of the 16 selections in Strahan's superb anthology (the launch of an annual series) does a disturbing take on a premise that genre fans may find familiar from more mundane examples of science fiction, fantasy or horror. Paul Brandon and...
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Edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe. Saga, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6239-6
Wolfe and Parisien (Robots vs. Fairies) have compiled an impressively varied compendium of myth reimaginings by numerous well-known speculative fiction writers. Rebecca Roanhorse riffs on the ever-present danger of obsessive love in the futuristic “A
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Jeffrey Ford. Tor, $14.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9734-8
College students on summer vacation become amateur archeologists and unearth a legendary ghost in Ford’s humorous suspense yarn set in present-day upstate New York. Slacker English major Henry narrates the adventures of his hometown friends, amiable
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Jeffrey Ford. Morrow, $26.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-267900-0
What if Ahab survived the sinking of the Pequod and Moby-Dick was a fictionalized version of reality penned by Ishmael? In this unusual and gripping novel from Edgar-winner Ford (The Shadow Year), the monomaniacal captain’s quest is to reunite with...
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Jeffrey Ford. Tor.com, $14.99 trade paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-250-25015-5
Ford’s dark fantasy (after Ahab’s Return) is a thrilling supernatural slugfest acted out by sleeping souls in the “night world” of the astral plane. Owen Hapstead, a librarian in the quiet town of Westwend, survives a pistol-whipping during a...
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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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Jeffrey Ford. Small Beer, $17 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-61873-184-5
Employing wide-ranging supernatural conceits—Dust Bowl demons, Amish hexes, figures from Greek legend—these 15 dark tales of evil, loss, and greed from Ford (Out of Body) are sure to send shivers up readers’ spines. Ford’s subtle stories peel away...
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