$18.00 (trade paperback)
Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release of Ancient,
Ancient, a collection of short fiction by Kiini Ibura Salaam, as a trade
paperback. Acclaimed author and critic Nalo Hopkinson writes, “Salaam
treats words like the seductive weapons they are. She wields them to weave
fierce, gorgeous stories that stroke your sensibilities, challenge your
preconceptions, and leave you breathless with their beauty.”
"Salaam's unusual settings and lonely characters will call to readers
who hunger for sex, identity, or just a place to belong."
— Publishers Weekly, March 5, 2012
$12.00 $9.00 (paperback)
"To speak radical truths—unapologetically, ferociously, rudely when
necessary—is the central purpose of Joanna Russ's influential body of
work," declares Brit Mandelo in her essay on Russ's radical, groundbreaking
literary and critical work. Mandelo’s essay traces Russ's evolving efforts
to speak truth throughout her literary career—examining both Russ's
successes and failures in doing so. She insists that Russ problematized and
individualized her ultimate understanding of truth without rejecting its
possibility. Rather, Mandelo argues, the trajectory of change in Russ's
work and her revision of prior truths itself constitutes a valuable part of
the truth-telling project. Russ emerges in Mandelo's essay as a heroic
though all-too-human intellectual and artist, one whose angry, brilliant
work we cannot afford to ignore or forget.
$16.00 (trade paperback)
Time and Robbery features the protagonist of Ore's Centuries Ago and
Very Fast, Vel, a gay immortal born in Paleolithic who jumps time at
will. Unless Vel can help out his younger self, Vel's tribe's descendants—a
big chunk of the 21st-century British population—will be eliminated from
the timeline. Present-day Vel, though, has problems of his own, so he takes
a chance and outs himself (and his talented teen-aged daughter Quince) to
Joe Tavistock, a subcontractor on the weak end of the plausible deniability
chain dangling off British intelligence, making it Joe’s problem. Joe's
superiors are dubious, and Joe doesn't know who to trust. The stakes are
high not just for Vel, but for everyone involved.
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$20.00 (trade paperback)
The contributors to this anthology include many fine poets, among them
Ursula K. Le Guin, Delia Sherman, Theodora Goss, Amal El-Mohtar, Vandana
Singh, Nisi Shawl, Greer Gilman, Sonya Taaffe, Athena Andreadis, Jo Walton,
and Catherynne M. Valente. Lemberg writes in her introduction that
“Literature of the fantastic allows us to create worlds and visions of
society, origins, social justice and identity,” but notes that “even though
we are in the world, our voices are folded into the creases. We speak from
memory of stories told sidewise." Thus, “In these pages,” Lemberg
summarizes, “you will find works in a variety of genres—works that can be
labeled mythic, fantastic, science fictional, historical, surreal, magic
realist, and unclassifiable; poems by people of color and white folks; by
poets based in the US, Canada, Britain, India, Spain, and the Philippines;
by first- and second-generation immigrants; by the able-bodied and the
disabled; by straight and queer poets who may identify as women, men,
trans, and genderqueer.”
$12.00 (trade paperback)
Unruly Islands collects 36 poems suffused with
science fiction, revolution, and digital life on the edge. Annalee Newitz,
editor of i09, says of the collection: “Liz Henry’s poetry is always
moving, funny, and weird, regardless of whether she’s flying us on a
rocketship through a science fictional social revolution or telling us a
wry story about being an adolescent embezzler. This collection is like a
monster cyborg mashup of Walt Whitman, Joanna Russ, and the internet. Which
is to say: Fuck yeah!”
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