We Wuz Pushed
by Brit Mandelo
$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.
Time and Robbery
by Rebecca Ore
$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.
In the House of the Seven Librarians
by Ellen Klages
$9.00 (trade paperback)
Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release of In the House of
Seven Librarians by Nebula and the Scott O'Dell Award-winning author
Ellen Klages as a trade paperback. This charming story recounts the tale of
what happens when an old Carnegie library is closed and its seven
librarians refuse to abandon it. They lock the doors, and a forest grows
around them like a cloak, sheltering them from the rest of the world. But
their lives are changed when a book of fairy tales is found in the Book
Drop, very, very overdue and the payment accompanying it is a first-born
child.
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News from Aqueduct Press
- The April 2012 issue of
the Cascadia Subduction Zone is now
available.
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Redwood and
Wildfire by Andrea Hairston is this year's winner of
the James Tiptree, Jr. Award
Making the honor list for the Tiptree were
"The Nones of Quintilis" (in the
collection Never at Home) by
L. Timmel Duchamp and
The Universe of
Things by Gwyneth Jones.
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New e-books from Aqueduct Press!
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In the House of the Seven Librarians by
Ellen Klages
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Making Love in Madrid by
Kimberly Todd Wade
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Time and Robbery by
Rebecca Ore
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Unruly Islands
by Liz Henry
$12.00 (trade paperback)
Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce the release of Unruly Islands by Liz
Henry, as a 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!”
The Last Letter,
Conversation Pieces Vol 31
by Fiona Lehn
$12.00 $9.00 (paperback)
On Island SG7, one voracious parasite endangers a protected forest and a
small community. But the biologist hired to bring the place into balance is
already compromised—by a too-narrow view of her duties, and—increasingly—by
a love she cannot ignore.
This is the love letter of Peta Sutton, who struggles to perceive the full
complexities of her place in a foreign ecosystem and an extramarital
relationship. As the island roils and the parasites seem to drag people's
worst fears into being, Peta struggles to forge a peace at the heart of
fears that threaten to consume everything.
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