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1 review
Geoff Ryman

Small Beer Press, 2008

`I know who I am'
In this novel, Geoff Ryman moves between the 12th century life and times of Cambodia's King Jayavarman VII (c 1120 - c1215) and the 20th/21st century lives of Luc, Map and William. When archaeologists discover an ancient book written on gold leaves at Angkor Wat, everyone wants to be involved. `The gold leaves have slept for a thousand years.' The precious artefact is stolen and its ...

The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
Joan Aiken

Small Beer Press, 2008

"Joan Aiken?s invention seemed inexhaustible, her high spirits a blessing, her sheer storytelling zest a phenomenon. She was a literary treasure, and her books will continue to delight for many years to come."?Philip Pullman ?The best kind of writer, strange and spooky and surprising, never sentimental or whimsical.??Kelly Link ?A writer of wild humor and unrestrained imagination.?? Oxford Companion to Children?s Literature ?This year ...

The Ant King: and Other Stories

2 reviews
Benjamin Rosenbaum

Small Beer Press, 2008

Essential short stories
These are excellent short stories -- fantastic, moving, and vivid. Rosenbaum moves easily between genres, from fable to hard sf to epic post-modern historical fantasy to straight fantasy with astonishing ease and deftness. Some high points: "Biographical Notes..." is just tremendous. Simultaneously a zeppelin adventure story, a post-modern literary romp, a deep work of historical fiction, ...

Demystifying Spanish Grammar: An Advanced Spanish Grammar Guide, Clarifying the Written Accents, Ser/Estar ...

15 reviews
Brandon Simpson

Small Town Press, 2008

Essential supplement for anyone seriously studying Spanish
This book sets out with a very clear purpose and delivers on its promise to help demystify the common grammatical stumbling blocks you'll encounter as you try to learn Spanish. As someone relatively new to learning Spanish but with a vested interest in getting it right - as I'm living here - this book answered questions I'd simply had to leave uncomfortably unanswered (because no other book ...

Stranger Things Happen: Stories

28 reviews
Kelly Link

Small Beer Press, 2001

"Mastery of a very particular kind"
In his liner notes to a 2005 CD titled "Back in New York," jazz enthusiast Peter Straub (yes, that Peter Straub), briefly touches on the concept of mastery, stating "What is represented here is mastery of a very particular kind. As a rule, mastery of any kind demands both a rich talent and an utter dedication to its development; in improvised music, only a few obtain mastery of this kind." ...

Endless Things: A Part of Aegypt

6 reviews
John Crowley

Small Beer Press, 2007

The transforming power of the novel
This book is the final volume of 4 in the Aegypt series written over the last 20 years. It weaves together the story of writer Pierce Moffett's search into the past and a battle in 1614 that changed our world into one in which Descartes' division of subject and object is preserved and magic is banished. Endless Things can be read without the prior volumes but the reader's experience is ...

Magic for Beginners

21 reviews
Kelly Link

Small Beer Press, 2005

Absolutely Brilliant
Okay, so it's a silly cliche, but I'm going to use it anyway...Kelly Link is the absolute best writer that you've never heard of. Most people have no idea who she is, our bookstore doesn't even carry her books most of the time, but I think she's utterly brilliant, and she deserves to be better known. She deserves to win the Pulitzer as far as I'm concerned. The stories in this collection are ...

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories

3 reviews
John Kessel

Small Beer Press, 2008

Sometimes variety is the spice of life
Sometimes variety is the spice of life. "The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: And Other Stories" is a short story collection not limiting itself to a single genre. From the seductive relationships of people of questionable virtue, to encounters with Frankenstein, to Matriarchal lunar colonies, it's a collection with something for fiction readers of every genre. A highly recommended addition ...

Water Logic: An Elemental Logic Novel

3 reviews
Laurie J. Marks

Small Beer Press, 2007

Best of the series!
As much as I enjoyed the earlier volumes of this series, "Water Logic" takes the author's Elemental epic into deeper, darker, more compelling places. Superbly plotted, this novel is a page-turner that grabs you from the very beginning and never lets go. The most impressive thing about "Water Logic" is its depth of emotion. Always a brilliant writer, Marks really gets under the skins of her ...

Howard Who?: Stories (Peapod Classics)

3 reviews
Howard Waldrop

Small Beer Press, 2006

One of the best, most underappreciated writers
I have been obsessed with Howard Waldrop for about fifteen years. The first three were spent trying to find his collections (this one especially) or locating a working copier so I could xerox any stories I located in the library. It was attempting to purchase "Howard Who?" and "Strange Monsters of the Recent Past" online that led me to become an Amazon.com member. Now I've got everything he's ...

Couch
Benjamin Parzybok

Small Beer Press, 2008

"Delightfully lighthearted writing. . . . Occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, the enthusiastic prose carries readers through sporadic dark moments . . . Parzybok?s quirky humor recalls the flaws and successes of early Douglas Adams."?Publishers Weekly "A lot of people are looking for magic in the world today, but only Benjamin Parzybok thought to check the sofa, which is, I think, the place it?s most likely to be found. Couch is a slacker ...

Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop

6 reviews
Kate Wilhelm

Small Beer Press, 2005

A Dream Conceived in a Book
I've always wanted to go to a writer's workshop, especially Clarion. It's a workshop I had heard of when I first started writing, but one that was inaccessible to me because of both funds and locations. It's too far away, in other words. But then Storyteller came out. Though at first I didn't know it was written about the Clarion workshop, I did know it was a book on the craft of writing. I ...

The Un-TV and the 10 Mph Car: Experiments in Personal Freedom and Everyday Life

4 reviews
Bernard McGrane

Small Press (CA), 1994

Phenomenal
Dr. McGrane's book is beyond words of description. I just took his very last class ever at UC Irvine, and it was life altering. Read the book, participate in the exploriments, and open your mind. His words will make you think like you never have before.

Trampoline: An Anthology

3 reviews

Small Beer Press, 2003

SLIPSTREAM AT ITS MOST COMPELLING
Trampoline is a fascinating and rewarding book. Among the twenty stories are a dozen that I found to be first rate. Another reader might disagree on the ranking of individual stories but not, I think, on the remarkable overall quality. A nice mixture of fine work by veterans (Carol Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen Joy Fowler, Maureen McHugh) and newcomers (Christopher Rowe, Shelley Jackson, ...

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