We now have: Heart of Iron by Ekaterina Sedia available in trade paperback and as an e-book.

And When the Great Days Come by Gardner Dozois available in trade paperback… and hardcover… and e-book formats!

Plus, if you glance to the right side of the page, you’ll see an updated list of forthcoming titles.

Come by our table — somewhere in the middle of the dealer’s room — and say hello.Watch out for cute babies, they are mobile now!

Even though not listed in your programme, Paula Guran will be on the Noon Saturday Panel: 12:00 PM [ RI ] The Year in Short Fiction. Kathryn Cramer, Ellen Datlow, Gardner Dozois: We will discuss the short fiction published since last Readercon.

Publishers Weekly:
This emotionally moving collection of Dozois’s recent writing and a selection of his best earlier pieces–including his two Nebula winners, “The Peacemaker” and “Morning Child”–is a valuable reminder that the renowned Asimov’s editor and anthologist also continues, if sporadically, to write significant fiction. Concentrating on the dilemma of how a rational species deals with its irrational urges, Dozois investigates the value and limits of forgiveness (“Dinner Party”), atonement (“Solace”), and religious belief (“Community,” “Disciples”). Humans struggle to communicate with alien colonists (“Chains of the Sea”), rebellious computers (“Recidivist”), and animals (“A Cat Horror Story”). What redeems us are empathy (“A Special Kind of Morning”) and the evergreen possibilities of life (“A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows”). Dozois demonstrates his range with classic fantasy, alternate history, and golden age–style horror as well as hard SF. [starred]

Cooper interweaves past and present in this elegantly understated narrative of the Mayan calendar ending in 2012…Alice Cameron is an archeoastronomer visiting the Yucatán to view the December 2012 celestial alignment. Her 11-year-old daughter, Nixie, sees the trip as an adventure, but she gets more excitement than she bargains for when she walks into the past and meets Ah Bahlam, a young Mayan lord, and a weeping young woman named Hun Kan. As time thins, the two Mayans, their world crumbling into war, will have their destinies altered by the encounter, and the changes may ripple through Alice’s and Nixie’s increasingly grim present…Nixie is delightful, and Cooper illuminates the colorful Mayan world with imagination-hugging historical and cultural detail.

More about MAYAN DECEMBER.

Jewniverse: Dragons, Robots, and Golems

The best Jewish stories have always been the supernatural ones. The Red Sea splitting open; Saul’s visit to the Witch of Endor; medieval tales about golems.

The new collection People of the Book embraces the Jewish predilection for the fantastic. Subjects range from dybbuks, to folk magic, to a Jewish father who uses the power of hypnosis to escape from Nazi Germany. Some stories traffic in the schmaltz of shtetl humor and zeidas with magic fiddles.

But there are breathless, beautiful moments. Take, for instance, the opening line of Jane Yolen’s story “The Tsar’s Dragons”: “The dragons were harrowing the provinces again. They did that whenever the Tsar was upset with the Jews.” And MJL’s own guest-blogger Lavie Tidhar’s story “Alienation and Love in the Hebrew Alphabet”–a quiet, pretty mystery that begins with aliens landing on a kibbutz.

This collection of future predictions and fantastic retakes of the past will make you think and it will make you wonder. And, even if science fiction isn’t ordinarily your thing, these stories will make you exceedingly proud of the People of the Book.