At first you may think that this is all disconnected, that all the stories in this collection contain no thread between them, contain no underlying architecture.  But that is just an illusion. An illusion that is part of the architecture. This architecture could be considered part of the message itself. For it is, in a way, anti-architectural.  The theme of Hatter Bones is discord. Each story is heartless, hurtful, breaking apart at the seams. All stories follow the path of breaking, the circle breaking apart, becoming square, destroying itself again. The architecture is anti-architecture. These bones that lay beneath this anthology are Hatter Bones. Bones that are discordant, that are madness, that are logical in their illogic. That is the Hatters greatest weapon. Logical illogic. Plausible madness.

Hatter Bones

Literature & Fiction

Lavie Tidhar

Cat Rambo

Matthew Kressel

Jeremy Needle

Darin Bradley

Short Stories & Anthologies

BookSurge Publishing

Across the ineffable expanse of the Great Deep float billions of shattered universes: the Shards. Populated with vengeful demons and tormented humans, the Shards need Earth to survive just as plants need water. Earth itself is kept alive by 36 righteous people, 36 hidden saints known as the Lamed Vav. Kill but a few of the Lamed Vav and the Earth will shatter, and all the Shards that rely upon it will die in a horrible cataclysm. When Daniel Fisher is abducted on his wedding day by the demon king, Ashmedai, he learns he is a Lamed Vav, one of the hidden righteous upholding the world. The demon Mashit has usurped the throne of demonkind from Ashmedai and has been systematically murdering the Lamed Vav. On a desert-covered Shard teeming with strange creatures, pursued by a fearsome demon army, Daniel and Ashmedai, saint and demon, must join forces to stop Mashit before she destroys all of existence. Daniel's survival means he must ally with evil Ashmedai. Yet who but a saint—a Lamed Vav—can save the world?

King of Shards (Worldmender, 1)

Genre Fiction

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

<ul><li>From Sholom Aleichem to Avram Davidson, Isaac Bashevis Singer to Tony Kushner, the Jewish literary tradition has always been one rich in the supernatural and the fantastic. In these pages, gathered from the best short fiction of the last ten years, twenty authors prove that their heritage is alive and well ― in the spaces between stars that an alphabet can bridge, folklore come to life and histories become stories, and all the places where old worlds and new collide and change.</li></ul>

People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy

MICHAEL CHABON

Peter S. Beagle

Neil, Gaiman

Tamar Yellin

Jane; Yolen

United States

Prime Books

<p>The fifteen tantalizing, thrilling, and ingenious tales in Steam-Powered put a new spin on steampunk by putting women where they belong -- in the captain's chair, the laboratory, and one another's arms. Here you'll meet inventors, diamond thieves, lonely pawn brokers, clockwork empresses, brilliant asylum inmates, and privateers in the service of San Francisco's eccentric empire. Though they hail from across the globe and universes far away, each character is driven to follow her own path to independence and to romance. The women of Steam-Powered push steampunk to its limits and beyond. "From colonial India to New Orleans in slavery times, from a rogue San Francisco to the Lower East Side of old New York, these stories are thoughtful, wide-ranging, exciting, and often very, very sexy. Anybody who thinks that "steampunk" and "lesbian" are niche interests should read Steam-Powered and get their horizons seriously expanded." -Delia Sherman, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner and author of Through a Brazen Mirror.</p>

Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mike Allen

N.K. Jemisin

Sara M. Harvey

Georgina Bruce

Shira Lipkin

Rachel Manija Brown

Meredith Holmes

Beth Wodzinski

Fantasy

Torquere Pr

<p>The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor of this year's volume, selected by SFWA’s anthology Committee (chaired by Mike Resnick), is American science fiction and fantasy writer Greg Bear, author of over thirty novels, including the Nebula Award-winning Darwin’s Radio and Moving Mars. This anthology includes the winners of the Andre Norton, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master, Rhysling, and Dwarf Stars Awards, as well as the Nebula Award winners, and features Ann Leckie, Nalo Hopkinson, Rachel Swirsky, Aliette de Bodard, and Vylar Kaftan, with additional articles and poems by authors such as Robin Wayne Bailey, Samuel R. Delany, Terry A. Garey, Deborah P Kolodji, and Andrew Robert Sutton.</p>

Nebula Awards Showcase 2015

Nebula Awards Showcase 2019

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Martha Wells

Sarah Pinsker

Richard Bowes

Caroline M. Yoachim

Rebecca Roanhorse

Vina Jie-Min Prasad

Jonathan Brazee

Jamie Wahls

Parvus Press LLC

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