The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk
In 1913, a young Pole arrives at a health resort in the Silesian mountains, a place known to be free of consumption due to the still, damp air.
In 1913, a young Pole arrives at a health resort in the Silesian mountains, a place known to be free of consumption due to the still, damp air.
An ancient secret order finds itself up against its most powerful foe: the Moon Goddess has returned.
Lore wakes up in an alley, naked, a huge gash running down her back, her identity implant—the only proof of her heritage in one of the world’s richest families—gone.
Marguerite (“Marghe”) Taishan is about to step foot on the planet Jeep when she receives a warning: if she goes on, she will never come back.
Aud is back in Atlanta, teaching a self-defense class to a ragtag group of women, when one of her students takes her lessons in a direction she didn’t imagine.
Aud Torvingen is tucked away in a remote cabin, grieving and alone.
Aud Torvingen is a Norwegian living in Atlanta, a former cop moonlighting as security, an expert in several forms of martial arts, and six feet tall.
Sutty, an observer from Terra, arrives on the planet Aka to find a singular, oppressive capitalist state has taken over the entire population in the years she spent traversing the stars to get there.
When the Hain first visit the Werelian system, they encounter a people living in a rigid and violently hierarchical system, separated into “owners” and “assets.”
In this short fable of midwinter, Susanna Clarke tells of the speech of dogs and pigs and foxes and the woods themselves, who talk to those who know how to listen.
A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely.
An archeology of the future.
Rachel’s boyfriend Frank is not like other people.
On holiday in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman wakes up to find that an invisible wall has descended all around her.
On May 6, 2052, a sex worker named Miss Kelley joined with her neighbors in Hunts Point to take over a produce market and distribute the food to those in need.
“Women, of course, can not be sons of God.”
In the woods of Wisconsin, a young forester named Rand Brandt learns that he can grow any plant he imagines in minutes, merely by touching the dirt.
Judy Wallach-Stevens is woken one night to a warning about pollutants in the nearby Chesapeake Bay. With her wife and newborn in tow, she heads out to see what’s up—and ends up making first contact with a group of friendly aliens.
In the middle of the last century, a research and development complex in California’s Simi Valley experienced multiple near-catastrophic accidents, leaking radiation and other toxins into the surrounding communities.
“Ragbone! Ragbone! Any rags! Pots for rags! Donkey stone!”