Edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman. Tachyon, $16.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-61696-257-9
This excellent anthology showcases up-and-coming speculative fiction writers, many of whom have received award nominations and critical attention to support their status as future influencers of the genre. The anthology opens with Alyssa Wong’s...
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Sofia Samatar. Small Beer, $16 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-9315-2076-8
Samatar weaves superstition, religion, politics, and a strong love of reading into a biography of Jissavet, a simple illiterate girl who has died young. The frame story depicts Jevick of Tyom’s first trip to the country of Olondria after his father’
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Sofia Samatar. Small Beer, $24 (337p) ISBN 978-1-61873-114-2
Samatar's lush sequel to A Stranger in Olondria is a story of revolution, religion, and electrifying love in four distinct voices. Tavis is close kin to the current Telkan, the ruler of the fantasy realm of Olondria, but she leaves behind the...
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Sofia Samatar. Small Beer, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61-873126-5
Samatar (The Winged Histories) collects 19 eerie short tales, all previously published, and a new novella, “Fallow,” all set in times and climes a few disquieting steps around the corner from reality. Her title story employs tender’s meaning of...
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Sofia Samatar. Catapult, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-64622-097-7
Sci-fi writer Samatar (The Winged Histories) strays from her imagined worlds to excavate a very real past in this fascinating look at her religious heritage. In the summer of 2016, the author—a descendant of Swiss-German Mennonites and Somali...
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Sofia Samatar. Tordotcom, $18.99 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-250-88180-9
From PEN Award winner Samatar (The White Mosque) comes a brutal, haunting, yet ultimately uplifting novella examining capitalism and labor exploitation through the lens of science fiction. “The boy,” 17 and one half of a duo of nameless protagonists,
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Sofia Samatar and Kate Zambreno. Columbia Univ, $20 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-0-231-21121-5
“What is tone?” ask novelists Samatar (The White Mosque) and Zambreno (The Light Room) in this dull meditation. They offer up vague observations about J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello, Heike Geissler’s Seasonal Associate, and Franz Kafka’s short...
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Sofia Samatar, illus. by Del Samatar. Rose Metal (SPD, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (84p) ISBN 978-1-941628-10-2
Issues of otherness and self run through this poetic blend of linked fiction, travelogue, memoir, and encyclopedia of curiosities by Samatar (The Winged Histories) that is as remarkable as it is perplexing. Opening with an epigraph by 16th-century...
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Sofia Samatar. Soft Skull, $15.95 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-59376-766-2
Novelist Samatar (The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain) presents a meandering collection of vague musings about writing, publishing, and life. The strongest entries critique the “tyranny of identity” in the publishing industry and lament how...
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