A tale of piracy in Colonial America, notably Edward Teach ("Blackbeard").

A novel about a privately undertaken manned trip to the moon.

Robert W. Chambers: Maker of Moons: Author of The King in Yellow Unmasked traces the history of the author of The King in Yellow, the book that influenced H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. Chambers was a top selling author in the early 20th century writing nearly 90 books, but has been largely forgotten except by the readers of horror fiction, particularly fans of the Cthulhu Mythos. This is the first full biography of Chambers, researched over nearly four decades by Shawn M. Tomlinson who grew up in the small town where Chambers summered. Tomlinson wrote many articles about Chambers previous to this book, primarily for area newspapers, as well as for several magazines including Adirondack Life and Ride of the Horsemen. His chapbook about Chambers, first published in 1996, went to three editions. Robert W. Chambers: Maker of Moons: Author of The King in Yellow Unmasked includes portraits of Chambers, interior and exterior photos of his summer home (Broadalbin House) and a full bibliography.

Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining, this is a book for those who enjoyed Walton's previous collection of essays from Tor.com, the Locus Award-winning What Makes This Book So Great.The Hugo Awards, named after pioneer science fiction publisher Hugo Gernsback, and voted on by members of the World Science Fiction Society, have been given out since 1953. They are widely considered the most prestigious award in science fiction.Between 2010 and 2013, Jo Walton wrote a series of posts for Tor.com, surveying the Hugo finalists and winners from the award's inception up to the year 2000. Her contention was that each year's full set of finalists generally tells a meaningful story about the state of science fiction at that time.Walton's cheerfully opinionated and vastly well-informed posts provoked valuable conversation among the field's historians. Now these posts, lightly revised, have been gathered into this book, along with a small selection of the comments posted by SF luminaries such as Rich Horton, Gardner Dozois, and the late David G. Hartwell.

The Washington Post has called Gene Wolfe "the finest writer the science fiction world has yet produced." This volume, Castle of Days, joins together two of his rarest and most sought after works--Gene Wolfe's Book of Days and The Castle of the Otter--and add thirty-nine short essays collected here for the first time, to fashion a rich and engrossing architecture of wonder. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

While students and general readers typically cannot relate to esoteric definitions of science fiction, they readily understand the genre as a literature that characteristically deals with subjects such as new inventions, space, robot and aliens. This book looks at science fiction in precisely this manner, with twenty-one chapters that each deal with a subject that is repeatedly addressed in science fiction of recent centuries. Based on a packet of original essays that the author assembled for his classes, the book could serve as a supplemental textbook in science fiction classes, but also contains material of interest to science fiction scholars and others devoted to the genre. In some cases, chapters offer thorough surveys of numerous works involving certain subjects, such as imagined vehicles, journeys beneath the Earth and undersea adventures, discovering intriguing patterns in the ways that various writers developed their ideas. When comprehensive coverage of ubiquitous topics such as robots, aliens and the planet Mars is impossible, chapters focus on major themes referencing selected texts. A conclusion discusses other science fiction subjects that were omitted for various reasons, and a bibliography lists additional resources for the study of science fiction in general and the topics of each chapter.

When Sun-born mage Zal is called to a remote village after an explosion on a nearby mountaintop, he’s stunned at what he finds in the gaol under the town hall—the last Moon-born on the planet, apparently a rogue mage, and someone Zal is duty-bound to haul to the capital to face judgment. But although nonbinary Torian is Moon-born, they’re no mage. Rescued as an infant from the plague that wiped out the rest of their race, Torian is as much cybertronic as human, and desperate to escape their former Star-born overseers. Zal has never felt the desires of the flesh, and as an avowed celibate Sun mage, he couldn’t indulge them if he did. Torian has only known value as a sexual surrogate, and isn’t sure how to prove their worth to a man who has no need of their abilities. As danger looms from both Zal’s world and Torian’s, mage and cyborg must find common ground, because only together can they hope to survive.

Adentta vibrated and shook as the intruding moon passed by at its closest point. The moon grew so enormous in the sky that all the crater edges on its surface were plainly visible; the craters and other formations on the moon formed a dark, sinister smile as it passed, too close to the planet. In his second novel, The Caverns of Adentta, a sequel to To Lose the Sun, author Don Luenser continues the amazing tale of the people of Adentta. Trapped on a dark, cold world, Drel, Pred, Jait, and his sister, Tymber, hope to insure the survival of the people of their village. Forced to flee the outside world for the safety of a vast network of underground caverns, the group searches for ways to meet the basic needs of the people. However, they find that they are not alone in The Caverns of Adentta. As well as the many creatures—both dangerous and docile—that seek shelter in the caves, another village has also been forced to attempt survival in the caverns. Joining forces with these newcomers would certainly increase the chance for survival, but are they friendly? Caution must reign when the fate of the village is in the balance. I escaped to another world while I read Don Luenser's novel, The Caverns of Adentta, the second book in the To Lose the Sun trilogy. A wonderfully written fantasy with lovable characters and intriguing plotline that left me longing for answers to the survival of the planet and anxiously awaiting the final novel. —Jean Ann Howard

Poetry. Back in 1994, when David Rowbotham released his New and Selected Poems, 1945-1993, a flurry of reviews appeared in the major newspapers and magazines remarking on how richly Rowbotham deserved more recognition as one of Australia's major poets of the past century. But if he is the most major of Australia's neglected poets, what is remarkable is that Rowbotham has continued to write sixty years on, in a confident and lucid voice that transcends single continents and cultures. POEMS FOR AMERICA is certain to earn Rowbotham that elusive literary Oscar.

A series of vicious hate crimes have the city in a panic, and Detective Isaac Taylor must find the perps and bring them in. But when the bullets start flying, things turn deadly. Now, with his boss out of town, the burden of leadership falls on Ike, only he's not certain he's got what it takes to head the homicide division. When tragedy strikes, Sidney Taylor leaps into action. Backing her husband's play is what a good wife does, after all. But when the situation lands her adrift in unfamiliar waters, she has to decide if she's going to sink or swim. With the added complication of a long awaited vision finally unfolding before his eyes, Ike is overwhelmed. He'll need Sidney to lean on more than ever. But will he be able to juggle it all and still do his job, or will he fail, endangering a little boy's future and jeopardizing his career?