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Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand (University of Nebraska Press)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:09:08 GMT

This has all the things I love to write about. A book that might have slipped under your radar, put out by a small (beer) press, written by one of my favorite authors, and is very good. I grabbed it...

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Catalogging Small Beer Press, Unbridled Books & Harper Collins Childrens (Chasing Ray)

Wed, 28 May 2008 08:41:39 GMT

Several catalogs in the mail today - here's some thoughts on each of them: From Small Beer Press and the very talented Gavin Grant and Kelly Link there are several titles that caught my eye. John Kessel's collection The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories arrived here about a month ago - and promptly went right out the door to a reviewer who was eager to see...

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Maureen McHugh's brilliant short stories as a free Creative Commons download (Boing Boing)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:43:45 GMT

Cole sez, "Maureen F. McHugh's speculative fiction collection MOTHERS & OTHER MONSTERS has been released online by Small Beer Press as a free Creative Commons download." Small Beer is knocking them out of the park with CC releases by some of science fiction's most talented, most brilliant short fiction writers. An entire Maureen McHugh collection online gratis is...

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Small Beer's Second Free Download of the Month (MediaBistro.com)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:09:48 GMT

After making a splash last week by releasing The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories , a new collection by science fiction writer John Kessel , under a Creative Commons license with a free electronic edition, Small Beer Press is at it again, offering free downloads of Maureen McHugh 's Story Prize -nominated collection, Mothers & Other Monsters . The "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike...

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FREE BOOK: Mothers & Other Monsters by Maureen F. McHugh (SF Signal)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:30:33 GMT

Small Beer Press has made Maureen F. McHugh's Mothers & Other Monsters available as a free download via a Creative Commons License. Here's the table of contents: "Ancestor Money" "In the Air" "The Cost to Be Wise" "The Lincoln Train" "Interview: On Any Given Day" "Oversite" "Wicked" "Laika Comes Back Safe" "Presence" "Eight-Legged Story" "The Beast" "Nekropolis" "Frankenstein's...

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Sci-fi/fantasy writer John Kessel’s short story collection: New DRMless freebie from Small Beer Press (TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home)

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:35:57 GMT

The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories, a short story collection by sci-fi writer and fantasy writer John Kessel, is a new freebie from Small Beer Press. Download it here. Small Beer, in Northampton, Massachusetts, earlier promoted Kelly Link that way. She and her husband manage the Press, which published her Stranger Things Happen, [...]...

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You can read the new book by John Kessel, ... [John Kessel] (io9)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:30:00 GMT

You can read the new book by John Kessel, author of Good News From Outer Space, for free, thanks to publisher Small Beer Press. Satirist Kessel's new short story collection The Baum Plan For... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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John Kessel's wonderful short story collection "The Baum Plan" free CC download (Boing Boing)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:35:07 GMT

Gavin of Small Beer Press sez, It's tax day in the USA and we all need cheering up. We're celebrating at Small Beer Press by publishing John Kessel's first collection of short stories in ten years, The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories, as well as releasing it as a free download in a number of completely open format -- with, of course,...

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Attention writers: a call for submissions (Endicott Redux)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:21:57 GMT

Interfictions, edited by Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss, was a provocative anthology of interstitial fiction published last year by Small Beer Press under the auspices of the Interstitial Arts Foundation. Containing terrific fiction by Christopher Barzak, Catherynne M. Valente, Veronica...

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World Fantasy Award - Fantastic Women (Feminist SF - The Blog!)

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:00:17 GMT

... King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton) The Privilege of the Sword , Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press) The Lies of Locke Lamora , Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra) The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden , Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra) Novella: winner “Botch Town”, Jeffrey Ford (The Empire of Ice Cream, Golden Gryphon) “The Man Who Got Off the Ghost...

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Brooklyn Book Festival (The Mumpsimus)

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:56:00 GMT

... one issue, and A Public Space is one such magazine. Gavin Grant and Jed Berry manfully manned the Small Beer Press table. Tempest and I had discussed the fact that there haven't been any good, physical literary fights recently -- plenty of internet flamewars and such, but nobody actually punching somebody out -- and so we tried to convince Gavin that he should start such a...

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World Fantasy Awards finalists (Raph's Website)

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:12:40 GMT

Locus Online has the list. Whoohoo, congrats to Mark Finn (whom I know from the Texas SF/F scene, Tryptophan/Turkey City stuff). And I told you that Privilege of the Sword was really good. I need to track down some of these others… The novel nominees: Lisey's Story , Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton) The Privilege of the Sword , Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press)...

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Holy Cow, Batman! (Shaken & Stirred)

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:01:52 GMT

... King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton) The Privilege of the Sword , Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press) The Lies of Locke Lamora , Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra) The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden , Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra) Soldier of Sidon , Gene Wolfe (Tor) NOVELLA "Botch Town", Jeffrey Ford ( The Empire of Ice Cream , Golden Gryphon)...

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British Fantasy Award - Best Novel Longlist (Scholar's Blog)

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:30:00 GMT

... De Lint (Tor Books) The Bonehunters (A Tale Of Malazan Book Of The Fallen), Steven Erikson (Bantam Press) Ten-Second Staircase (Bryant & May 4), Christopher Fowler (Doubleday) Development Hell , Mick Garris (Cemetery Dance) Ilario: The Lion's Eye , Mary Gentle (Gollancz) Nova Swing , John M Harrison (Gollancz) The Secret Of Crickley Hall , James Herbert (Macmillan) World Of Hurt , Brian...

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