What it is: Sedia is a Russian-born author of strange, lyrical fantasies who teaches science in Philly’s South Jersey suburbs when she’s not writing fairy tales about feminist wind-up robots and beach houses that drift off to sea. Her latest book collects 21 short fictions featuring ghost stories about beer, adopted children plagued by monsters, the absurdity of Nigerian-style email spam and a tale whose title, “Zombie Lenin,” pretty much says it all.

Who it’s for: Short story lovers, urban fantasy readers, Russian Americans.

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After the End: Recent Apocalypses
Edited by Paula Guran
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | 6″X9″ | $15.95 | ISBN: 9781607013907
Publication Date: June 2013

From the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh to Norse prophecies of Ragnarök to the Revelations of Saint John to Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, any number of fictional zombie Armageddons, and the dystopic world of The Hunger Games, we have always wondered what will happen after the world as we know it ends. No matter what the doomsday scenario—cataclysmic climate change, political chaos, societal collapse, nuclear war, pestilence, or so many other dreaded variations—we inevitably believe that even though the world perishes, some portion of humankind will live on. Such stories involve death and disaster, but they are also tales of rebirth and survival. Grim or triumphant, these outstanding post-apocalyptic stories selected from the best of those published in the tumultuous last decade allow us to consider what life will be like after the end.

Contents (alphabetically listed by author):
• Paolo Bacigalupi, “Pump Six”
• Kage Baker, “The Books”
• Lauren Beukes, “Chislehurst Messiah”
• Blake Butler, “The Disappeared”
• Cory Doctorow, “Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar)”
• Brian Evenson, “The Adjudicator”
• Steven Gould, “A Story, with Beans”
• Margo Lanagan, “The Fifth Star In the Southern Cross”
• Livia Llewellyn, “Horses”
• M.J. Locke, “True North”
• John Mantooth, “The Cecilia Paradox”
• Maureen McHugh, “After the Apocalypse”
• Simon Morden, “Never, Never, Three Times Never”
• Nnedi Okorafor, “Tumaki”
• Paul Park, “Ragnarok”
• Mary Rosenblum, “The Egg Man”
• John Shirley, “Isolation Point, California”
• Bruce Sterling, “Goddess of Mercy”
• Paul Tremblay, “We Will Never Live in the Castle”
• Carrie Vaughn, “Amaryllis”

Very pleased to reveal the cover (by Sherin Nicole) and content for WEIRD DETECTIVES: RECENT INVESTIGATIONS by Paula Guran.

Paranormal investigators. Occult detectives. Ghost hunters. Monster fighters. Humans who unravel uncanny crimes and solve psychic puzzles; sleuths with supernatural powers of their own who provide services far beyond those normal gumshoes, shamuses, and Sherlocks can provide. When vampires, werewolves, and thing that go bump in the night are part of your world, criminals can be as inhuman as the crimes they commit, and magic can seep into the mundane—those who solve the mysteries, bring justice for victims or even save the world itself, might wield wands as well as firearms, utter spells or simply use their powers of deduction. Some of the best twenty-first century tales from top authors of the century’s most popular genre take you down mean streets and into strange crime scenes in this fantastic compilation.

Contents (alphabetical by author):
“Cryptic Coloration” by Elizabeth Bear
“The Key” by Ilsa J. Blick
“Mortal Bait” Richard Bowes
“Star of David” by Patricia Briggs
“Love Hurts” by Jim Butcher
“Swing Shift” by Dana Cameron
“The Necromancer’s Apprentice” by Lillian Stewart Carl
“Sherlock Holmes and the Diving Bell” by Simon Clark
“The Adakian Eagle” by Bradley Denton
“Hecate’s Golden Eye” by P.N. Elrod
“The Case of Death and Honey” by Neil Gaiman
“The Nightside, Needless to Say” by Simon R. Green
“Deal Breaker” by Justin Gustainis
“Death by Dahlia” by Charlaine Harris
“See Me” by Tanya Huff
“Signatures of the Dead” by Faith Hunter
“The Maltese Unicorn” by Caitlín R. Kiernan
“The Case of the Stalking Shadow” by Joe R. Lansdale
“Like a Part of the Family” by Jonathan Maberry
“The Beast of Glamis” by William Meikle
“Fox Tails” by Richard Parks
“Imposters” by Sarah Monette
“Defining Shadows” by Carrie Vaughn

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We are pleased and rather gobsmacked—if delightedly so—that New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird has been selected by Library Journal as one of the best sf/f titles of the year. Congrats to all the authors whose outstanding work made it such.

We suppose this gives us a fine opportunity to announce we will be publishing Spawn of Cthulhu: New Stories Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft—an all-original anthology—edited by Paula Guran in 2014. (And no, I have not started soliciting yet.)

SFSignal is hosting a giveaway of two copies of SEASON OF WONDER. Check for details: http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2012/11/giveaway-season-of-wonder/