Towards the end of 2017, Spaceboy Books, a publisher of fine science fiction, released a book called My Shadow Book by someone named Maawaam and edited by Jordan A. Rothacker. Primarily a publisher of fiction, this addition to the Spaceboy catalog is perhaps mysteriously something more than fiction.
Read More“Part of the joy of reading The Pit, and No Other Stories is seeing how these seemingly disparate threads come together—which often happens in unexpected ways.” — Tobias Carroll, The Brooklyn Rail
Read More"Assistant Sacred Detective Edwina Casaubon and her Sherlock Holmes-like mentor, Sacred Detective Rabbi Jakob “Thinkowitz” Rabbinowitz, who we met for their first harrowing case together in The Death of the Cyborg Oracle, are back to solve another future noir mystery in The Shrieking of Nothing."
Read MoreFiction Editor Madeleine Sardina’s stories are rooted in transformation - physical, emotional, or environmental. From a werewolf suffering the monthly change a girl growing up in a town that wants her dead to a black hole struggling with its place in the universe, each story is built from a body discontent.
Read MoreA five-book mystery series in which the main character, Anne Hardaway, a lifelong resident of Oceanside Heights, N.J., who ghosts on such books as Mary Lou Popper's Household Guide for People Who Hate to Clean. When an old flame returns to town and promptly drowns under mysterious circumstances, Anne brandishes her encyclopedic knowledge about homes and their inhabitants to track down the murderer.
Read More“Mostly the stories transpire in what might reasonably be called working-class settings. They’re inhabited by a range of peculiar characters, many of them troubled and distressed, some of them near death, all of them ingenuously sprung from Sims’ singularly rich and fertile imagination.” - Hank Stanton
Read More“A collection of short fiction by the award-winning writer Alina Stefanescu in which the author brings an immigrant's sharp eye to the American way of life. In prose that reminds us of the best of Grace Paley, Every Mask I Tried On is by turns smart, funny, and profound.”
Read More“Wikswo's singular lines strike like the tone of a bell, resonating across pages . . . The stories . . . take the reader on a journey where myth, mystery, and the impossible have never seemed more real.” ―Publishers Weekly
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A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be unfolds on the unruly, mixed-race, queer-sexed margins of a conservative 1930s Southern town.
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A lyrical retelling of the myth of Daedalus and Pasiphaë, the poetry of the forgotten, the designs of yearning, and the threads of desire.
Read More“In the three decades leading up to the presidential election of 2040, the Bill of Rights has been systematically weakened or repealed. The country has become even more polarized politically and economically than it was at the turn of the century. But Attorney General Pete Chesterfield wants more -- the complete elimination of Congress, resulting in total control of the United States government by the executive branch. Taking advantage of a weak President, he secretly plans a campaign to eliminate Article I of the Constitution. Liberal journalist Roland Raines discovers the plot and takes advantage of his long-time friendship with the President to reverse this disastrous course of action, discovering in the process that the only way to preserve our precarious democracy is to embrace and adopt the principles enunciated by 17th and 18th century social philosophers and America's founding fathers.”
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