Huge immersive fantasy novel that will shock and pull readers in.First novel by a unique new voice.Publicity starting in Madison, WI, on WPR and growing from there.Online pre-publication ad campaign to build awareness.

Nebula Award Finalist for Best NovellaNamed a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2024 by Esquire, The New York Times, SLATE, The Washington Post, and ELLE“I am in love with Sofia Samatar's lyricism and the haunting beauty of her imagination. Her stories linger, like the memory of a sumptuous feast.”—N. K. JemisinA Most Anticipated in 2024 Pick for Goodreads | LitHub | Book Riot | She...

Four women - a soldier, a scholar, a poet, and a socialite - are caught up on opposing sides of a violent rebellion. As war erupts and their loyalties and agendas and ideologies come into conflict, the four fear their lives may pass unrecorded. Using the sword and the pen, the body and the voice, they struggle not just to survive, but to make history.Here is the much-anticipated companion novel to Sofia Samatar’s World Fantasy Award-winning debut, A Stranger in Olondria. The Wi...

In the late 1800s, a group of German-speaking Mennonites fled Russia for Muslim Central Asia, to await Christ’s return.Over a century later, Sofia Samatar traces their gruelling journey across desert and mountains, and its improbable fruit: a small Christian settlement inside the Khanate of Khiva. Named ‘The White Mosque’ after the Mennonites’ whitewashed church, the village—a community of peace, prophecy, music and martyrs—lasted fifty years.Within this curious tale, Sofia...

The September/October 2016 issue of the Hugo Award Winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, Tim Pratt, Sarah Pinsker, E. Lily Yu, and Ferrett Steinmetz, reprinted fiction by Sofia Samatar, essays by Mary Anne Mohanraj, Una McCormack, Aidan Moher, and Dominik Parisien, poetry by S. Qiouyi Lu, Ada Hoffmann, and Sonya Taaffe, interviews with Carmen Maria Machado and Sarah Pinsker by Deborah Stanish, a cover by Kirbi Fagan, and an editoral by Lyn...

An incredibly unique comic book benefit project featuring comic shorts, pin-ups, short essays, and flash fiction, the proceeds of which will be going to the Innocence ProjectWe’ve all seen the pictures: a six-year-old Ruby Bridges being escorted by U.S. marshals on her first day at an all-white, New Orleans school in 1960; a police dog attacking a demonstrator in Birmingham; fire hoses turned on protesters; Martin Luther King Jr. addressing a crowd on the National Mall. These pictu...

First collection from writer who is taking off.First novel won many prizes, second novel nominated for same. Stories finalists for many awards.Writer who crosses borders and catches interest of many differenent constituencies.Stories reprinted in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy StoriesIncludes a huge new story, “Fallow,” published here for the first time.Author has been a repeat guest on To the Best of Our Knowledge.Author has writ...

**Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismOpacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writing**In a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Samatar blends letters from her friend with notes on literature, turning to Édouard Glissant to study ...

Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of “I know it when I see it.”In Tone, a cooperative authorial voice under the name of the Committee to Investigate Atmosphere begins from the premise that tone is relational, belonging to shared experience rather than a sing...

The November/December 2016 issue of the Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Paul Cornell, Brooke Bolander, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Bledsoe, Kat Howard, and Nalo Hopkinson, reprinted fiction by Amal El-Mohtar, essays by Alyssa Wong, Monica Valentinelli, Navah Wolfe, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Keidra Chaney, and Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu), poetry by Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, and Sofia Samatar, interviews with Jennifer Marie Brissett and ...

Science Fiction and Fairy Tales Special EditionAdam Roberts – Lad and the Devil Woody Dismukes – A Good Morsel of Clay Mary Berman – Cassandra Takes the Plunge Edmund Fines – The Golden Circle Tour Rhys Hughes – A Gorgon Reversed e rathke – Last Life in the Universe Laura Scotland – Such is the Pathway to the Stars Dave Weaver – The Space Apostle Sofia Samatar – Fairy Tales for RobotsMultiverse - poems from: Cat Hellisen, Bethany Davis and Jane YolenBook Reviews...

Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of “I know it when I see it.”In Tone, a cooperative authorial voice under the name of the Committee to Investigate Atmosphere begins from the premise that tone is relational, belonging to shared experience rather than a sing...