Tales from Mnemosyne
by Dennis Danvers
As the goddess of Memory and mother of The Muses, Mnemosyne is
uniquely qualified to set the record straight—to tell the true stories
without the usual patriarchal propaganda, all the while keeping things
fun and only slightly blasphemous. Mnemosyne as a timeless goddess
knows now and then backwards and forwards and has as much to say about
the here and now as way back when. These fourteen tales include the
most famous—Daphne and Apollo, Europa and Jove, the Birth of Athena,
Cupid and Psyche—along with some too-often-forgotten ones, such as
Tiresias and his daughter Manto, and Oenone, the abandoned wife of
Paris.
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Collected Ogoense and Other Stories
by Rebecca Ore
This volume of stories and novellas collects some of Ore's valuable
fiction of the 1990s, work that continues to be of vital interest with
a strong focus on persistent issues that remain urgent in our current
world. They include, for instance, “Hypocaust & Bathysphere,” in which
time-traveling academics more than meet their match in the medieval
inhabitants they assume are naïve and ignorant and easily “studied,
while the historians exploring America’s past in “Scarey Rose in Deep
History” uncover secrets in that past that challenge them personally
to the core. And in “Collected Ogoense,” the volume’s title story, an
underpaid biologist toiling over dangerous pathogens seeks refuge from
the bleakness of her existence in her passion for African killifish
until treachery takes her refuge from her and launches her into the
obsession for revenge.
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Adventures in Bodily Autonomy
edited by Raven Belasco
"For this distinctive anthology, the royalties from which will be
donated to NARAL Pro-Choice America, Belasco (Blood Ex Libris) brings
together 14 thoughtful speculative tales centered on issues of
reproductive freedom and female agency. The opener, Nisi Shawl’s
stirring “Queen of Dirt,” about a Black teen at summer camp, explores
racial bias and questions about what makes a family, demonstrating
that the anthology has more on its mind than a medical
procedure....Tones vary throughout: some stories are bleak, presenting
hard choices or pyrrhic victories, but others sound more hopeful
notes. These timely tales both draw readers in and have the potential
to advance important conversations."
—Publishers Weekly, July 2023
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Sacraments for the Unfit
by Sarah Tolmie
“These stories could be the mad progeny of Umberto Eco and Ursula
K. LeGuin: fiendishly cunning thought-twisters that shimmer with
compassion and charisma.”
—Helen Marshall, author of The Migration
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Numinous Stones
by Holly Lyn Walrath
From Elgin Award winning author Holly Lyn Walrath, a haunting
collection of poetry about grief and the sacred that digs deep beyond
a fairytale world into the grave. Told in the circular pantoum form,
Numinous Stones is a poetic graveyard littered with horror—from
sentient scarecrows to silent skeletons to scorched sacred spaces. As
each line repeats, new meaning gleams like bones unearthed in a
shattered realm of monsters, dark forests, and dusty ghosts.
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Knife Witch
by Susan diRende
"You have to root for this sharp young woman with knives stashed in
her hair as she outwits every power ranged against her, from
small-town bullies and corrupt witch councils to far greater
natural—and supernatural—entities."
—Lesley Wheeler, author of Unbecoming and
Poetry’s Possible Worlds
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From Voyages Unreturning
by Deborah L. Davitt
From Voyages Unreturning tells the tale of a woman who sought escape
from her own life. Skimming through time and space at light-speed, she
comes to realize that she’s left everything that she loved behind. She
forges a bond with a living ship, and together, they dare to dream
that life can be more than perpetual loss....
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The Language of Water
by Elizabeth Clark-Stern
"I found this novel's complex characters and the richness of their
relationships—in love and in war—tremendously compelling. Sara,
Kethuda, Ruqia, and the rest of the cast are skillfully drawn. A story
about the future devastation wrought by climate change has the
potential to be a grim read, but instead Elizabeth Clark-Stern has
written a gripping feminist tale exploring love and power, violence
and forgiveness, despair and hope. The Language of Water is a
page-turner and a paean to resistance."
—Gwynne Garfinkle, author of Can't Find My Way Home
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