Green is back in Copper Downs. Purchased from her father in sunny Selistan when she was four years old, she was harshly raised to be a courtesan, companion, and bedmate of the Immortal Duke of Copper Downs. But Green rebelled. Green killed the Duke, and many others, and won her freedom. Yet she is still claimed by the gods and goddesses of her world, and they still require her service. Their demands are greater than any duke's could have been.Godslayers have come to the Stone Coast,...

Markus Selvage has been bent by life, ground up and spit out again. In San Francisco's darkest sexual underground, he is a perpetual innocent, looking within bodies—his own and others'—for the lost secrets of satisfaction. But extreme body modification is only the beginning of where he will go before he's finished . . .

Acclaimed author Jay Lake has created a remarkable character in Green, and evokes a remarkable world in this novel. Green and her struggle to survive and find her own past will live in the reader's mind for a long time after closing the book.She was born in poverty, in a dusty village under the equatorial sun. She does not remember her mother, she does not remember her own name—her earliest clear memory is of the day her father sold her to the tall pale man...

A parable of divinity and redemption among the Rats and Cats who live on in the house that Jack built high in the mountains of the American west, long after their master has gone. From award-winning science fiction writer Jay Lake.

A young boy who can fly in his dreams mourns the Challenger explosion as he reaches for the skies. Short, fantastic science fiction from award-winning writer Jay Lake.

What happens after the world has run down?A pair of deep time science fiction short stories from award-winning author Jay Lake. Includes the critically-acclaimed "The Courtesy of Guests", winner of the Soft Science Fiction Award for 2001, as well as the sequel "The Passing of Guests".

Jay Lake's critically acclaimed novella takes a new look at a classic theme.A world strictly governed by religious dogma is challenged by a scientist who has discovered a key piece of information challenging long-held beliefs.An intricately created alternate world provides a fascinating backdrop and a new twist to this classic dilemma.

A brief, post-apocalyptic fairy tale by award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Jay Lake. What happens when true Innocence meets the harvester of sin? The trick of disaster is the result, yet somehow life goes on for the living.

Jay Lake's first trade novel is an astounding work of creation. Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky, and sees the track of the heavens, the wheels of the Moon, and the great Equatorial gears of the Earth itself.Mainspring is the story of a young clockmaker's apprentice, who is visited by t...

The Steampunk Megapack collects 26 tales of high adventure through Victorian and Edwardian eras--past, present, and future! Included are:MIDNIGHT AT VALDOSTA'S, by Jay LakeTHE CASE OF THE PECULIAR SAFECRACKER, by G. D. FalksenTHE ACQUISITION OF MANDRAKES AND ASSISTANTS, by Jillian VentersTHE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS, by H. P. LovecraftTHE BRASS GOGGLE FACTORY WORKER, by John LeavittTHE PATH OF PROGRESS, by Brian StablefordTHE TAILED MEN, by Ar...

The Xenic Bureau of the Grand Ekumenical Security Directorate investigates rumors of aliens, strange disappearances and anomalous events in the star-spanning empire of this far future tale. Bureau operative Father Jonah Menard is charged with find the truth about the supposed reappearance of the long-lost battleship Enver Hoxha. An alien-killer, Golliwog, is set on Menard's trail in case the rumors are real, while cashiered starship engineer Micah Albrecht holds far more of the truth than ...

A novella of alternate history, nuclear threat and religion from award-winning speculative fiction writer Jay Lake. Mayan magic, Papal politics, and the grinding burdens of colonial life meet in this retelling of the Cuban missile crisis in a very different version of Central America.