Kirith Kirin

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including:William Bar

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities w

Bending The Landscape: Science Fiction

Edited by world-renowned lesbian fantasy author Nicola Griffith and fantasy publisher Stephen Pagel, this groundbreaking anthology of all-original science fiction stories brings together some of mainstream's and science fiction's most notable writers -- g

The Ordinary

Jim Grimsley's novels and short stories have been favorably compared to the works of Samuel R. Delany, Jack Vance, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Now he unleashes an ambitious and audacious collision between science and magic.The Twil Gate links two very differen

Winter Birds

On a snowy Thanksgiving day in North Carolina along a stretch of rural highway, a dreamy eight-year-old named Danny Crell is caught in the middle of a violent quarrel between his parents. Danny's father, Bobjay Crell, has been at the mercy of doctors, unf

My Drowning

Jim Grimsley returns to the Southern landscape evoked so powerfully in his previous award-winning novels, "Winter Birds" and "Dream Boy", to tell an unforgettable story of a woman's search for the meaning of a dream that has haunted her throughout her lif

Dream Boy

ALA Gay-Lesbian-Bisexual Book Award. In his electrifying novel, adolescent gay love, violence, and the spirituality of old-time religion are combined through the alchemy of Grimsley's vision into a powerfully suspenseful story of escape and redemption.

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood

"White people declared that the South would rise again. Black people raised one fist and chanted for black power. Somehow we negotiated a space between those poles and learned to sit in classrooms together . . . Lawyers, judges, adults declared that the d