WSFA Press

This year we are pleased to announce that WSFA Press has published a special 500-copy limited and signed hardcover edition of Fire Watch, Connie Willis’ 1982 Nebula, and 1983 Hugo award winning novelette relating the experiences of a time-traveling historian who goes back to The Blitz in London, to participate in the fire watch at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

This volume of Fire Watch was designed by John Coulthart, a well-known British graphic artist, illustrator, author and designer. It begins with a foreword by James Patrick Kelly and is signed by Willis and Kelly.

Fire Watch was released at Capclave 2010, and was initially only available to members of that convention. Now that the convention has passed, this special offer is available to the general public through WSFA Press.

Price: $25.00

If the twentieth century was the American Century, who will the next one belong to … and what will become of the nation’s capital?

Will Washington D.C. be drowned in the rising tides and its glory days forgotten, or will its residents rise to the challenge and remake the world in its image?  In these stories you’ll find as many questions as answers, but if assembled authors agree on anything, it’s that we are destined to live in interesting times and more than that … ones that we will have a hand in creating.  Ask not what the future can do for you…

Original Tales by:

B. A. Chepaitis – Brenda W. Clough – Cory Doctorow – James Alan Gardner – Joe Haldeman – Thomas Harlan – Edward M. Lerner – Jane Lindskold – Jack McDevitt – Sean McMullen – Nancy Jane Moore – Kim Stanley Robinson – Steven Sawicki – L. Neil Smith – Allen M. Steele – Travis Taylor

Price: from $17.00

Home by the Sea, by Pat Cadigan and illustrated by David R. Works was published in 1992 for the Washington Science Fiction Association’s annual convention, Disclave, where Pat Cadigan and Tom Kidd were the Guests of Honor.

Only 500 copies were printed, and each volume is individually numbered, signed by the author, artist, and the author of the introduction, Mike Resnick.

ISBN:
0-0962175-3-7 / 978-0-962172-53-3

Price: $45.00

Guest of Honor for Capclave 2009, Harry Turtledove, is the master of alternate history, and now with Reincarnations, a special limited project for Capclave, he continues to showcase his writing talent: six stories never-before-reprinted, an original story, story notes, and an introduction by Sheila Williams, the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine.

This book was released at the Capclave 2009 convention, Oct 16-18 in Rockville Maryland.

ISBN:

Trade Hardcover: 978-0-9621725-6-4
Special Signed Hardcover: 978-0-9621725-7-1

Price: from $25.00

Fantastist Catherynne M. Valente takes on the folklore of artificial intelligence in this brand new, original novella of technology, identity, and an uncertain mechanized future.
Neva is dreaming. But she is not alone. A mysterious machine entity called Elefsis haunts her and the members of her family, back through the generations to her great-great grandmother—a gifted computer programmer who changed the world. Together Neva and Elefsis navigate their history and their future, an uneasy, unwilling symbiote.

But what they discover in their dreamworld might change them forever . . .

Silently and Very Fast was published by WSFA Press in 2011, and released at WSFA's annual Capclave convention (October 14-16, 2011 in Gaithersburg Maryland) as a special 500-copy limited and signed hardcover edition. Initially this volume was only available to members of Capclave 2011 but is now available to the general public.

Price: $25.00

Best known for her New York Times bestselling urban fantasy novels, Carrie Vaughn has also written dozens of short stories for Talebones, Realms of Fantasy, and many other magazines and anthologies. Collected here for the first time are ten of her favorite hard-to-classify stories covering the full range of speculative fiction – science fiction, fantasy, horror – sometimes all in the same story. Read about Emily Dickinson's dog, women pilots in WWII, future Hollywood, a haunted Europa, and more! Acclaimed author and editor Jay Lake contributes an introduction to this unique collection.

Straying from the Path was published by WSFA Press in 2011, and released at WSFA's annual Capclave convention (October 14-16, 2011 in Gaithersburg Maryland) as a special 500-copy limited and signed hardcover edition. Initially this volume was only available to members of Capclave 2011, but is now available to the general public.

Price: $25.00

The Edges of Things, by Lewis Shiner and illustrated by Alicia Austin was published in 1991 for the Washington Science Fiction Association’s annual convention, Disclave, where Lewis Shiner and Alicia Austin were the Guests of Honor.

Only 600 copies were printed, and each volume is individually numbered, signed by the author, artist, and the author of the introduction, Mark L. Van Name.

ISBN:
0-9621725-2-9 / 978-0-9621725-2-6

Price: $45.00

This year we are pleased to announce that WSFA Press has published a special 500-copy limited and signed hardcover edition of The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod, an alternate version (having been expanded with an additional character, an additional plot thread, and a slightly different ending) of Jeff’s story which originally appeared in the Dozois-Martin edited Songs from the Dying Earth.

This volume of The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod was designed by John Coulthart, a well-known British graphic artist, illustrator, author and designer.  It begins with a foreword by Jeff VanderMeer, is followed by an afterword by Ann VanderMeer, and is signed by both Jeff and  Anne.

The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod was released at Capclave 2010, and was initially only available to members of that convention. Now that the convention has passed, this special offer is available to the general public through WSFA Press.

Price: $25.00

Enjoy a very special slice of history. This bundle of seven limited edition books represents all but one of the entire library of WSFA Press publications. Unfortunately, the very first WSFA Press book, Father of Stones by Lucius Shepard, published in 1989, is no longer available, even to us.

The collection contains:
Home by the Sea, by Pat Cadigan (signed and numbered)
Through Darkest Resnick with Gun and Camera, by Mike Resnick
The Edges of Things, by Lewis Shiner (signed and numbered)
Future Washington, an anthology by sixteen of the finest SF authors in the field.
Reincarnations, by Harry Turtledove (Trade Hardcover)
The Three Quests of the Wizard Sarnod, by Jeff VanderMeer (signed and numbered)
Fire Watch, by Connie Willis (signed and numbered)

So if you’d like to own this special collection of WSFA Press’ finest works, at a very special price, order yours today. Due to the limited number of some volumes in the collection, there is are only one three of these bundles remaining. Update: thanks to some heroic spelunking in a dark basement, two additional volumes of the Resnick were unearthed, allowing us to make two more bundles available.

Price: $150.00