It earns my highest compliment: I wanted more.' -World Fantasy Award winner Caitlin R. 'With Passing Strange, Ellen Klages has spun a marvelously gritty tale of the bad old days, deftly weaving a tapestry from bittersweet nostalgia, magic, weirdness, romance,and the ugly truth of being queer in San Francisco at the dawn of WWII.

'A moving and genuine love story.' -The Washington Post A must-read!' -Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author of the Imperial Radch trilogy 'A once-invisible slice of history, filled with vibrant, non-idealized characters, and fabulous writing to boot. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Six women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic” experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet. San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Ian McDonald weaves a love story across an endless expanse with his science fiction novella Time WasĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages, and a finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novella In a far future Earth, blind hope keeps the populace contented. Clarke Award-winning author Gwyneth Jones. Proof of Concept is an action-adventure science fiction novella from Arthur C. Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages,Īgents of Dreamland is a new Lovecraftian horror novella from award-winning author Caitlín R. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her in Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women’s College. The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij JohnsonĪgents of Dreamland by Caitlin R. Tor.com Publishing Editorial Spotlight #5 is a curated selection of novellas by editor Jonathan Strahan

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