Illuminations

Polack, Gillian

Literature & Fiction

Trivium Pub Llc

In March 1305, a group of Australians and Americans arrive in medieval France. To be precise, they arrive in the Languedoc, near a village called Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert.The scientists want to save the world. Dr Artemisia Wormwood wants to save her sister. If she joins the time-travellers as their historian, her pay would cover treatment that might give her sister life.Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert is a desert of souls. Village, monastery, pilgrimage path, and legend; that's all there is. Perfect for scientists who have promised their work will not interfere with history. Those scientists have nine months and a dedication that defies reason. They won't tell Artemisia about their research. They don't want to hear her explanations about the world around them and about its people. Some of the scientists don't even want her there. Who needs an historian when the village looks like a gamer's dream? The villagers are disturbed by the strangers. Most of the strangers don't really care.Prepare for a bumpy ride with bad coffee.

Langue[dot]doc 1305

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Satalyte Publishing

“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted.” Those were the words of Mitch McConnell after he banned Senator Elizabeth Warren from speaking on the floor of the United States Senate. In reaction to the bitter partisanship in Trump’s United States of America, nineteen Book View Café authors celebrate women who persist through tales of triumph—in the past, present, future, and other worlds. From the halls of Ancient Greece to the vast space between stars, each story illustrates tenacity as women overcome challenges—from society, from beloved family and friends, and even from their own fears. These strong heroines explore the humor and tragedy of persistence in stories that range from romance to historical fiction, from fantasy to science fiction. From tale to tale, every woman stands firm: a light against the darkness. Table of Contents: “Daughter of Necessity” by Marie Brennan “Sisters” by Leah Cutter “Unmasking the Ancient Light” by Deborah J. Ross “Alea Iacta Est” by Marissa Doyle “How Best to Serve” from A Call to Arms by P.G. Nagle “After Eden” by Gillian Polack “Reset” by Sara Stamey “A Very, Wary Christmas” by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel “Making Love” by Brenda Clough “Den of Iniquity” by Irene Radford “Digger Lady” by Amy Sterling Casil “Tumbling Blocks” by Mindy Klasky “The Purge” by Jennifer Stevenson “If It Ain’t Broke” by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff “Chataqua” by Nancy Jane Moore “Bearing Shadows” by Dave Smeds “In Search of Laria” by Doranna Durgin “Tax Season” by Judith Tarr “Little Faces” by Vonda N. McIntyre

Nevertheless, She Persisted: A Book View Cafe Anthology

Radford, Irene

Ross, Deborah J.

Klasky, Mindy

Bohnhoff, Maya Kaathryn

Smeds, Dave

MCINTYRE, Vonda N.

Stamey, Sara

Nagle, P. G.

Moore, Nancy Jane

Genre Fiction

Book View Cafe

Pink tutus, sarcasm, amulets and bushfires: that is suburban fantasy in Australian cities. It is magic. Life is never quite what it seems, even without the lost family heritage delivered to Judith and Belinda in boxes.Judith (who owns the haunted lemon tree and half the boxes) wants an ordinary life. Mostly.Belinda wants to not be so very worthy. If Belinda weren't Judith's sister, and if it wasn't for bushfires and bigots, Belinda's life would be perfectly ordinary. Judith will tell you so. You don't even have to ask.Belinda's friend Rhonda has a superpower. Each time she sees the future or reveals deep secrets, seekers for the 'New Nostradamus' come closer to destroying her life. Her hold on normalcy is very fragile. So is her hold on safety.Judith and Rhonda are haunted, Judith by her past and Rhonda by her gift of prophecy. Will they ever come into the sunshine and find happiness?

The Wizardry of Jewish Women

World Literature

*The pleasure of your company is requested.* Graceful feet tracing courtly steps. Eyes behind jeweled masks meeting across a room of twirling dancers. Gloved hands touching fleetingly—or gripping swords... Anything can happen at a ball. You are invited to enjoy these stories of fancy and fantasy from thirteen authors, framed in the splendor and elegance of a ballroom. Be it at a house party for diplomats and thieves, or Almacks in a side-universe in which the Patronesses have magic, or a medieval festival just after the plague years ... *Prepare to be swept into the enchantment of the dance!*

It Happened at the Ball

Brennan, Marie

Smith, Sherwood

Lawlor, Layla

Doyle, Marissa

Forrest, Francesca

Radford, Phyllis Irene

Short Stories & Anthologies

Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People

Historian Thomas Cahill argued that it was the Jewish people who invented the very concept of history as we know it. They were the first to perceive time not as an endless circle of life, death and rebirth, but as the flight of an arrow, on a linear path to somewhere from somewhere. But what if time is not one arrow, but a volley of arrows? What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams? Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction. Contributors include Jack Dann, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, Jane Yolen, Lavie Tidhar and Benjamin Rosenbaum, among many others!

Dann, Jack

TURTLEDOVE, HARRY

Reisman, Jessica

Shvartsman, Alex

Choi, Eric

Tidhar, Lavie

Kressel, Matthew

Weiss, Allan

Goldberg, James

Rosenbaum, Benjamin

Takács, Bogi

Rafael, Rivqa

GOMEL, ELANA

LALUMIÈRE, CLAUDE

Silverberg,Robert

Garfinkle, Gwynne

Nurenberg, David

MAYNE, SEYMOUR

YOLEN, JANE

Latta, D.K.

Alter, Seth

Beaulier, Patrick

Dyen-Shapiro, Allan

Eden, Hunter C.

Grozny, Isak

McDaniel, C. L.

Nicholls, Jack

Sparber, Max

Verskin, Milton

ChiZine Publications

The culture we live in shapes us. We also shape the culture we live in. Stories we tell play critical roles in this shaping. The heart of cultural transmission is how stories and the way we shape knowledge come together and make a novel work. How do they combine within the novel? Genre writing plays a critical role in demonstrating how this transmission functions. Science fiction and fantasy illustrate this through shared traditions and understanding, colonialism, diasporic experiences, own voices, ethics, selective forgetting and silencing. They illuminate ways in which speculative fiction is important for cultural transmission. This study uses cultural encoding and baggage within speculative fiction to decode critical elements of modern English-language culture.

Story Matrices

History & Criticism

Luna Press Publishing

Humankind is in danger. The Year of the Fruitcake tells of the Earth-based life of a mostly-mindwiped alien anthropologist inhabiting a human perimenopausal body instead of her own more rational body with its capacity to change gender. This alien has definitely shaken a great intergalactic empire by sitting in cafés with her new best friends. Chocolate may or may not have played a part. Will humanity survive? Polack describes her novel as, “Bleak. It’s political. It’s angry. It’s also sarcastic, cynical and funny.”

The Year of the Fruit Cake

Humor & Satire

IFWG Publishing International

What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams?\nSome of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction.\nContributors include Jack Dann, Robert Silverberg, Harry Turtledove, Jane Yolen, Lavie Tidhar and Benjamin Rosenbaum, among many others!

Lobel, Andrea D

Ben Yehuda Press

The Green Children Help Out

Madness Heart Press

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