along the aqueduct the cascadia subduction zone the monthly aqueduct subscribe to our monthly e newsletter spring summer 2016 catalog our mission submission guidelines info aqueductpress.com aqueduct press po box 95787 seattle wa 98145 2787 aqueduct press the waterdancer s world by l. timmel duchamp humans have been struggling to live on frogmore for almost five centuries adapting themselves to punishing gravity and the deadly mistflowers that dominate its ecology . financier inez gauthier patron of the arts and daughter of the general commanding the planet s occupation forces dreams of eliminating the mistflowers that make exploitation of the planet s natural wealth so difficult and impede her father s efforts to crush the native insurgency . fascinated by the new art form of waterdancing created by solstice balalzalar celebrating the planet s indigenous lifeforms inez assumes that her patronage will be enough to sustain solstice s art even as she ruthlessly pursues windfall profits at the expense of all that has made waterdancing possible . 20.00 paperback 7.95 e book epub mobi kindle other places by karen heuler life unfolds in strange ways . you may encounter people from your past living in your former apartments or realize you have a penis as you engage in war dreams or find a planet filled with ghosts that look exactly like the ghosts back home . is it possible they are the same as the ghosts back home wherever you travel you ll have to make tough decisions about the aliens you may have harmed and the aliens who may harm you . other places karen heuler s latest story collection follows travelers as the familiar becomes strange and the strange becomes life . 12.00 10.00 paperback 5.95 e book epub mobi kindle sleeping under the tree of life by sheree ren e thomas the lyrical gifts of thomas editor of the celebrated dark matter anthologies are on full display in this collection of poetry and short fiction ... she invokes the rhythms of african american ring shouts and the dense humid atmosphere of the american south . her stories include reinventions of mythology such as medusa and arachne ambushing the goddess athena in revenge in arachne & medusa jump athena and haunting modern folktales about women with their roots in rivers in river clap your hands and swamp trees in tree of the forest seven bells with references to recent natural disasters and human created pollution . thomas s skill with poetry and prose is remarkable and even the shortest poems in this volume contain ideas and images that will linger in the reader s mind . publishers weekly starred review july 2016 12.00 10.00 paperback 5.95 e book epub mobi kindle the wiscon chronicles vol 10 edited by margaret mcbride the theme of this volume of the wiscon chronicles was inspired by wiscon 39 s guest of honor speeches by alaya dawn johnson and kim stanley robinson . johnson delivered a cri de coeur we need diverse stories we need a million mirrors of different shapes and sizes . not just so we can see ourselves . so that they can see us through our own eyes . robinson exhorted we now need to institute global justice and equality for all for two reasons that bond together into a single reason it s the right thing to do morally and it s the survival thing to do . 15.00 paperback 7.50 e book epub mobi kindle two travelers by sarah tolmie two travelers is a magical evocation of the outsider experience a book that transports its characters to strange new worlds where they must make their way despite language barriers and culture shock . sarah tolmie s lyrical prose guides readers through vividly imagined cultures where the fate of a kingdom hangs on the outcome of a dance or where as your family s size changes so too must your name . a.m. dellamonica author of a daughter of no nation and the nature of a pirate 16.00 paperback 7.95 e book epub mobi kindle will do magic for small change by andrea hairston the entire work is filled with magic celebrating west africans native americans art and love that transcends simple binary genders . hairston s novel is a completely original and stunning work . publishers weekly april 2016 21.00 paperback 8.95 e book epub mobi kindle roadsouls by betsy james roadsouls explores the power of art and creativity for transforming not only one s own life but also the world one lives in . if you long for a fantasy world that your senses could live in read this book . its backbone is the wandering life of a sort of gypsy hippie circus group traveling a pre industrial landscape and offering a way out to the misfits and throw aways of the local villages . suzy mckee charnas author of the holdfast chronicles 20.00 paperback 7.95 e book epub mobi kindle marginalia to stone bird by rose lemberg in this powerful debut collection rannu award winning poet rose lemberg explores the deep rooted fluidity of gender tradition language and desire in landscapes as familiar as high fantasy and as foreign as san francisco . by turns devastating and deeply hopeful marginalia to stone bird writes a fearless commentary on our history and others . 12.00 10.00 paperback 5.95 e book epub mobi kindle news from aqueduct press the july 2016 issue of the cascadia subduction zone is now available . the 2015 philip k. dick award special citation was given to elysium by jennifer marie brissett . the stone boatmen by sarah tolmie was shortlisted for the crawford award both the weave and flesh & wires are on the locus recommended list for first novels published in 2015 . hwarhath stories transgressive tales by aliens by eleanor arnason this is anthropological science fiction at its best with only ursula k. le guin rivaling arnason in cultural insight and in the sophistication complexity and evocativeness of her worldbuilding . the hwarhath serve as a distorted mirror in which we can clearly see our own follies foibles peculiarities and the inequalities of our society ; the hwarhath meanwhile see humans as a distorted mirror in which they can see the peculiarities and inequalities of their own society . gardner dozois locus 19.00 paperback 8.85 e book epub mobi kindle the merril theory of lit ry criticism by judith merril decades ago samuel r. delany declared that merril is perhaps the most important intra genre critic the field has had and the absence of any of her critical work in book form in a field aspiring to take itself seriously is preposterous . o ne can not know the history of science fiction from 1956 to 1969 if one has not read the brilliant commentary that runs through merril s best of the year anthologies for that period . now in 2016 aqueduct brings judith merril and her place in that history to today s readers . 22.00 paperback 8.95 e book epub mobi kindle unpronounceable by susan dirende earth has discovered it is not alone in the universe . the aliens pink shapeless and peaceful are very nice but after a string of failed diplomatic missions they ask earth to stop with the crazies and send someone normal . in frustration the un devises a lottery to pick the next ambassador . enter rose delancy a jersey waitress with a grudge against pretty much the whole world ... 12.00 10.00 paperback 5.95 e book epub mobi kindle flesh & wires by jackie hatton in flesh & wires jackie hatton shows us real women in extreme circumstances survivors of disaster traumatized and divided among themselves with superhuman powers and all too human hearts . as they confront change we witness their desperation their hope their need to discover the full range of their powers . a provocative and exciting debut . julie phillips author of james tiptree jr. the double life of alice sheldon 19.00 paperback 7.95 e book epub mobi kindle a field guide to the spirits by jean leblanc in a field guide to the spirits poetry becomes a means of time travel in which voices from the past offer insights reveal secrets transform our concept of now . these poems explore the interwoven pathways of ghost memory imagination and desire . the spirits visited range from caroline herschel and mary shelley to zane grey and dashiell hammet william blake to anne hutchinson john keats to isaac newton s niece . 12.00 10.00 paperback 5.95 e book epub mobi kindle