Marge Piercy’s debut collection of short stories spans decades of her writing and brings us glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds.
The politics and terrors of biotech, human engineering, and brain science are given startling fictional form in a selection of short stories with a mix of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and wicked humor.
Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski (Colonel Pyat), that charming but despicable mythomaniac who first appeared in Byzantium Endures, is back leaping from crisis to crisis throughout Europe and the U.S.
In Jerusalem Commands, volume three of the Pyat Quartet, our hero schemes and fantasises his way around the world, leaving a trail of mechanical and human wreckage in his wake.
Based on historical records. A small, slight seventeen-year-old Polish-German Jew named Herschel Grynszpan entered the German embassy in Paris and shot dead a consular official leading to the Night of Broken Glass.
Perhaps Moorcock’s most controversial work, “a tour de force” introducing Pyat, cocaine addict, sexual adventurer, and obsessive anti-Semite whose epic journey connects him with scoundrels and heroes from Trotsky to Makhno.
The dark ghost who haunts every blood-spattered crime scene in Phoenix does exist. “The Kid” has a love of cooking and reading with an appetite for violence, but he’s ready to escape into the arms of the beautiful Vanjii.
Follow Vietnam vet Magrady as he weaves through the underbelly of Los Angeles to find his missing wheechair-bound buddy who might be in hot water with some major L.A. players.
These short stories cover all the territory—from his droll faux-FAQ’s done for Britain’s Science magazine, to the most seductive of his fantasies, to an eerie dreamlike evocation of the 9/11 that might have been.