At the Terran base on the conquered planet of the Mnemosyneans, Tyr Yllen is unique. The ultramodern techniques Earth teachers used with the students on the base are of no use with someone like Tyr. But when Horace Mann arrives all the way from Earth...
With an introduction by Helen DunmoreCome for a walk down the river road,For though you're all a long time deadThe waters part to let us passThe way we'd go on summer nightsIn the times we were childrenAnd thought we were lovers.The Drowned Book is a...
Chain-smoking alcoholics, warring academics, gothic stalkers, and aspiring writers are just some of the visitors that browse the mysterious library at the heart of this sinister novel. Idlers and idolizers alike can be referenced, in body or in text,...
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing ...
In these twelve short stories by science fiction writer Sean O’Brien, you’ll find a character trying to find the meaning of his own life through an alien artifact called the Godbox; a brainy high school geek with an unusual football ability; an i...
Jene Halfner awaits the end of a hundred-year-long, deep-space colonization journey begun by her ancestors generations before. She has spent her life preparing for planetfall on Epsilon Eridani III, taking care of the growing number of victims of int...
Narrated in the first person, 'And Lead Us Not...' is a powerful and erotic human drama, intimately told. Callum has a comfortable life with his partner Julia and their small group of professional friends in suburban South Manchester, 'no kids' baby ...
Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sor...
Collier South has been belt mining his entire life. He’s watched the small independents around him get swallowed up by the bigger corporations, forced out of their livelihoods by corporate creep. But no matter his mounting debt load, he isn’t abo...
Stephen Maxwell has just retired from a lifetime spent teaching history at his alma mater. As he writes the official history of Blake's, a minor public school steeped in military tradition, he also reveals how, forty years ago, a secret conflict ...
Sheltering from an air raid in an empty underground station, a young woman encounters a strangely out-of-place vessel passing along the platform...
A librarian cataloguing the manuscripts of a recently deceased horror writer notices one p...
Donn Cardenio, damaged veteran of Earth's disastrous first interstellar war, and two hundred fellow Caretakers are charged with caring for a quarter million embryos en route to col...
From a former White House speechwriter: a middle grade series following two First Daughters who team up with historical presidential children to save the nation.Marissa and Clara’s mom is the newly elected president of the United States, and they h...
A swashbuckling, seafaring, time-traveling adventure takes First Daughters Marissa and Clara back to the birth of the nation in this new entry in the White House Clubhouse series.When the clubhouse fills with smoke, Marissa and Clara Suarez escape th...
While Downriver contains the English urban pastoral and hymns to the Northern deities for which Sean O’Brien is justly celebrated, the poet has always been more a singer than even his many admirers have sometimes conceded: here, that lyric note is ...