Karen Lord is one of today's most brilliant young talents. Her science fiction, like that of predecessors Ursula K. Le Guin and China Mieville, combines star-spanning plots, deeply felt characters, and incisive social commentary. With "The Galaxy Game, " Lord presents a gripping adventure that showc[...]

Hoping to save her family from a bloody clan feud, Fiona MacLean comes up with a scheme to kidnap and marry her family's greatest enemy, handsome rogue Black Jack Kincaid, the man she had once loved. Original.[...]

Paama, who is a great cook, has returned to her family after 10 years of marriage to the gluttonous Ansige, but two years later he hires the master tracker Kwame to find her. Kwame needs the money to finance his own wanderlust and reluctantly takes the job. These events draw the attention of Chance,[...]

What happens when humanity reaches out into the vastness of space? Including new stories by Alastair Reynolds, Greg Egan, Ian McDonald, Ken Macleod, Pat Cadigan, Karl Schroeder, Hannu Rajaniemi, Karen Lord, Adam Roberts, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Aliette de Bodard, Peter Watts, and others![...]

"The impish love child of Tutuola and Marquez. Utterly delightful."--Nalo Hopkinson
Karen Lord's debut novel, which won the prestigious Frank Collymore Literary Prize in Barbados, is an intricately woven tale of adventure, magic, and the power of the human spirit.Paama's husband is a fool and a [...]