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June 20, 2023

Josh Rountree’s captivating THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE FISH comes highly recommended

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One month from it July publication, Josh Rountree’s debut novel THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE FISH generates rave reviews from Gary K Wolfe for Locus, The Book on the High Shelf, Book Reviews Forevermore, and Speculiction. At Paper Cuts, C. S. Humble includes the book within 50 Books You Should Read to Become a Better Writer.

THE LEGEND OF CHARLIE FISH is available for pre-order directly from Tachyon and all finer booksellers.

Rountree’s description of the storm is nothing less than harrowing, and the whole affair is framed by chapters narrated by an older Nellie in 1932, as another hurricane approaches. Her voice, which is that of a resourceful and scrappy teenager filtered through the memories of the haunted survivor she has become, lends a surprising resonance to a tale that is more complex than it at first seems.
Locus

In addition to the chapter structure, the stakes and anticipation steadily rise as the little family is pursued by Finn and Jim, and Galveston city is under threat from a storm that only gets worse and worse. Their story is captivating enough, but add in the backdrop of the Great Storm, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, and you’ve got a real nail-biter. While I really appreciate the technical aspects and construction of the story, what I love most of all is how well it reads, how fast I care about the characters, and how the story sweeps me away.

Highly recommended for my fellow Texans, but also for western and literary fantasy fans!
The Book on the High Shelf

The characters really came to life, even the ones we love to hate. I felt like I was watching the scenes in person. The plotting, perhaps, was the least strong aspect, as it was largely predictable until the ending. The emotional content and build was spot-on. There are a couple of fun moments that flavor that tension perfectly.
Book Reviews Forevermore

In the end, The Legend of Charlie Fish is an enjoyable paradox in that it tells a tall tale on top of real-world catastrophe. The effect is to make the catastrophe all the more catastrophic—to give its legend more awe and revere. Rountree’s style is solid, taking readers on a tight, well crafted journey to get to the catastrophe. While I personally wish he had inserted a little more Texas into the proceedings, there are zero problems engaging with what’s on the page for a bit of light, legend making.
Speculiction

The Legend of Charlie Fish – Josh Rountree
How to seamlessly blend a normal genre into the weird.
50 Books You Should Read to Become a Better Writer

April 3, 2023

Brimming with magic, lyrical prose, and deeply felt emotion, THE ESSENTIAL PETER S. BEAGLE is master class given by one of our greatest fantasists

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As we begin our countdown to the May release of THE ESSENTIAL PETER S. BEAGLE, excitement builds as evident by the effusive praise for both Volumes I and II in a pair of Kirkus starred reviews (Volume I Volume II) and Gary Wolfe at Locus as well as Book Reviews Forevermore of just Volume II. (Book Reviews Forevermore previously covered Volume I) Meanwhile, Civilian Reader shares an excerpt from Volume with a piece from “Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros.”

Though not coming out until May, both volumes (VOLUME I: LILA THE WEREWOLF AND OTHER STORIES and VOLUME II: OAKLAND DRAGON BLUES AND OTHER STORIES) of THE ESSENTIAL PETER S. BEAGLE are available directly from Tachyon and all finer booksellers.

The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Voulmes 1 & 2 — Cover art by Stephanie Law
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Whether set in a fantastical landscape, the New York City of Beagle’s youth, or the invented northern California town of Avicenna, these are fables that explore how a brush with the uncanny can either change a life or simply spotlight what is already present. Magic is the lens through which the author shows us how fraught a mother-daughter relationship can be, how difficult it can be to let go of a dead friend or lover, and how a greater threat can unite two squabbling siblings. Delicate line drawings by artist Stephanie Law add a charming coda to each

Brimming with magic, lyrical prose, and deeply felt emotion, this is, indeed, essential reading.
Kirkus on Volume I

There are perhaps many readers who know Beagle only from his classic novel The Last Unicorn (1968), unaware of his considerable body of long and short fiction; others are longtime fans already familiar with such gems as A Fine and Private Place (1960), The Folk of the Air (1986), and The Innkeeper’s Song (1993), among others. This two-volume collection is a must-have for all of them.

Yes, essential, for whomever you are.
Kirkus on Volume II

[I]t’s a master class in using the materials of genre to forge a highly personal vision that almost always leads in surprising directions, revealing magic where we least expect it.
Locus

Highly recommended for fans of the fantastic and short stories.

Four and a half stars, rounding up. Lovely writing, evocative moods; if each story wasn’t amazing, the collection as a whole is.
Book Reviews Forevermore

February 17, 2023

With a truly distinctive and poetic narrative voice, R. B. Lemberg’s THE UNBALANCING is a much-needed novel

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Early in the new year, R. B. Lemberg’s THE UNBALANCING continues to thrill and excite with a glowing mention from Gary K. Wolfe’s The Year in Review 2022 in Locus and praising reviews from R. M. Harper for The Fantasy Review and Marlene Harris’ Reading Reality.

R.B. Lemberg returned us to their evocative, lyrical Birdverse with its first full-length novel, THE UNBALANCING, featuring a decidedly complex, conflicted, and neuroatypical central character with a truly distinctive and poetic narrative voice.
Locus

That is why we write fantasy, and it is why we read it: to imagine different worlds than ours, and examine the way forward. In that, Lemberg has crafted a a much-needed novel for the inhabitants of a tired world.
The Fantasy Review

The more I read of the Birdverse, the more fascinated I become with this fantastic and fantastical place. The story in THE UNBALANCING is complete in and of itself, but it hints at depths that I found myself wishing I knew better. In other words, I loved it AND I wanted more.
Reading Reality

February 14, 2023

An amazing debut novella, THE BRUISING OF QILWA by Naseem Jamnia snares a shortlist inclusion for the 2023 IAFA Crawford Award

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Samuel R. Delany Fellowship recipient Naseem Jamnia’s debut novella THE BRUISING OF QILWA continues to collect accolades with a 2023 IAFA Crawford Award shortlist mention, Gary K. Wolfe at Locus discussing the book in his The Year in Review 2022, and review from The Reading Rebel. Also, Nalini Haynes on the Dark Matter Zine podcast interviews Jamnia.

Cover for THE BRUISING OF QILWA by Naseem Jamnia — Cover by Elizabeth Story

The winner of the 2023 Crawford Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts for a first book of fantasy published the prior year, is Simon Jimenez for his novel The Spear Cuts Through Water (Del Rey). Jimenez had previously published a well-received science fiction novel, The Vanished Birds (2020), but The Spear Cuts Through Water is his first fantasy book, making it eligible for the award.

The awards committee also named a shortlist including Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing (William Morrow), Naseem Jamnia, THE BRUISING OF QILWA (Tachyon), Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves (Redhook), and Jacob Kerr, The Green Man of Eshwood Hall (Serpent’s Tail)
2023 IAFA Crawford Award

Naseem Jamnia’s distinctively titled The Bruising of Qilwa, which also is one of the two most interesting first novels I read this year (see below for the other), with its nonbinary healer as protagonist, its powerfully-developed themes of colonialism, marginalization, and oppression, and its systems of blood magic worked out with such consistency that they begin to look like actual hematology.
Gary K. Wolfe

I love books with magic and I thought the magic system in this book was well thought out and easy to understand. I love that this book talked about immigration, affordable healthcare, and prejudice. This book handled these subjects very well. The writing is so beautiful and lyrical. I love that this world is queer normative and am hoping for more books written in this world. I highly recommend this gem of a book.

Rating: 5 stars
The Reading Rebel

This is a Dark Matter Zine podcast and I’m your host Nalini Haynes. Today I’m talking to author Naseem Jamnia about their book the Bruising of Qilwa. My review for this book is here.
Dark Matter Zine

October 4, 2022

For all its looming threats, Lavie Tidhar’s NEOM is a city you’d like to visit

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Though still over a month from its November publication, reviews roll in for NEOM, Lavie Tidhar’s long awaited return to the universe of the John W. Campbell Award Winner CENTRAL STATION garnered a review from Gary K. Wolfe in Locus and a positive mention from Sally Adee at The Last Word on Nothing in the essay “The future is a myth that is true and false” on science fiction and the future. There’s Always Room for One More includes Tidhar’s UNHOLY LAND among Top Ten Tuesday: Geographic Titles. Clarkesworld (Issue 193, October 2022) offers the new short story “Junk Hounds” in text and audio.

Preorders for NEOM are currently available via the Tachyon site and all finer booksellers.

Neom by Lavie Tidhar — Cover by Elizabeth Story

Nor is it necessary to have read CENTRAL STATION, although it does help flesh out Tidhar’s emerging portrait of a transformed Middle East. For all its fearsome ancient ordnance, its economic disparity, and its looming threats, NEOM easily joins the list of SF cities we’d like to visit.
Locus

There are ways to rescue ourselves from dystopia if we can tear ourselves away from obsessively reading and writing the same stories about it over and over again. If we can make different stories. Take NEOM. The highly decorated SF author Lavie Tidhar has written a book about its future that comes out in November. (I’ve never regretted reading anything by Lavie Tidhar.) Stories can be alchemy. They can transform dystopia from received wisdom, back into into myth.
The Last Word on Nothing

Unholy Land; cover by Sarah Anne Langton — Cover by Sarah Anne Langton

A former Subjective Chaos Kind Of Nominee, UNHOLY LAND is a time-travelling murder mystery and a series of alternate histories (some of which must be averted). Lavie Tidhar has been on my list of authors to read for ages, and this sounds fascinating and – with its themes of walls and border control – entirely on point.
There’s Always Room for One More

The walls were beige and you could see where the rust took hold. A tiny dead robot floated past Amir, feelers drooping. It was the same color as the walls and shaped like a grasshopper. Amir made a grab for it but a hidden maintenance duct sucked it up and it vanished with a soft, almost hungry pop. Other tiny robots crawled along the wall, attempting to repair a recent fracture.

The Heavenly Palace, a hundred years on from its grand opening. Once it was glorious. Now it was just another piece of floating junk.

Amir loved it. He loved the worn grooves in the floor and the faded carpets in the Stargazer’s Lounge. The whistle of the ivory balls in the old centrifugal roulette wheels and the way the bartender still mixed a martini like he was serving it to Neil and Buzz at the Oasis Hotel in Maspalomas after Apollo 11 came back from the Moon. The Heavenly Palace was a junk hound’s Mecca, and if one day the owners decided to stop boosting it and doom it at last to the inevitability of orbital decay, you could bet Amir and every other junk hound in Low Earth Orbit would be swarming over the spoils like locusts.
Junk Hounds

September 29, 2022

With exquisite and original THE BRUISING OF QILWA, Naseem Jamnia delivers a rewarding read set in a world you’ll want to re-visit time and time again

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Samuel R. Delany Fellowship recipient Naseem Jamnia’s singular debut novella THE BRUISING OF QILWA wows in reviews from Gary K. Wolfe and Alex Brown, both in Locus, The Middle Shelf, and in a dual feature that includes R. B. Lemberg’s THE UNBALANCING, Stephen Case at Strange Horizons.

Like many of the best novellas we’ve been seeing these last few years, THE BRUISING OF QILWA is something of a Tardis tale, considerably bigger on the inside than it first appears, and it’s a rewarding addition to that growing body of fantastic fiction addressing themes of colonialism, bigotry, gender, and cultural identity. The world of the book is one we’d like to know more about, and Jamnia is a writer worth paying attention to.
Gary K. Wolfe

Despite its short length, the world building in THE BRUISING OF QILWA is exquisite and original. Jamnia doesn’t give a lot of detail about the world or its political and cultural histories, yet the story feels vast.
Alex Brown

THE BRUISING OF QILWA is an introduction to a world I’ll happily visit again in a new story.
The Middle Shelf

In the novel’s setting, Jamnia creates a rich landscape of overlapping ethnicities and languages, laying a foundation for a world-building which proceeds very much out of Iranian culture. This richness informs the book’s vocabulary. Dialogue and description are filled with references to and many other Farsi terms. Gender identity and pronouns are part of this landscape as well. Many characters mentioned in passing have non-binary pronouns—ey, eir, zhe, hos, hu, as well as pronouns used exclusively for a deity. These are used casually and without explication, making them a seamless part of the cultural background. Jamnia’s prose makes their world feel more like a—to this reader previously unknown—corner of the real world, with occasional magical details to remind that it is indeed fantasy.

Both THE BRUISING OF QILWA and THE UNBALANCING are powerful in giving voice to marginalized or dispossessed characters without being flat, formulaic, or overly discursive. In THE BRUISING OF QILWA, the affirming, accepting healer who welcomes refugees becomes someone willing to take horrific steps to protect his city, and the protagonist is forced to face the moral ambiguity of Kofi’s decisions. In THE UNBALANCING, one protaginist begins at the center of her society’s power structure, but her desire for the novel’s other lead opens her up to understanding a positive self-abnegation in relationships—even at the cost of her home. It’s a compelling contrast: one a view of damaged idealism from a place of little social capital, the other of a character at the center of her society’s hierarchy finding a new sensitivity and humility. Most importantly, both novels deal with the respective costs.
Strange Horizons

August 24, 2022

With the elegant and lyrical THE UNBALANCING, R. B. Lemberg reveals the mythic Birdverse is populated by fascinating and memorable characters

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Some two weeks before its actual release (though the book, both physical and digital, is currently available directly from Tachyon and other select outlets), R. B. Lemberg’s THE UNBALANCING is garnering plenty of attention with glowing reviews from Kristi Chadwick for Library Journal, Gary K. Wolfe in Locus, Infinite Text, and at Trans Narrative, L. A. Lanquist shares a moving, personal reflection on how the book affected him. Additionally, THE UNBALANCING merits inclusion in Arvyn Cerézo list for Book Riot 8 Notable Nonbinary SFF Books You Need to Check Out.

SIGNED copies of THE UNBALANCING are available for preorder from the fine folks at Raven Book Store.

Lemberg’s first full-length novel in their lauded “Birdverse” (following the novella THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES) showcases elegant and lyrical prose to create an immersive romantic fantasy.
Library Journal

While Lemberg’s prose can be as lilting and lovely as their poetry, the novel is not without a fair amount of wit; this is the Birdverse, after all, and the expletives of choice are ‘‘Pluck it!’’ and ‘‘Bird peck it!’’ That sort of dialogue, together with Lemberg’s sharp portrayal of the challenges of holding a relationship together, grounds the novel firmly in character despite the fanciful cosmology of its setting (though we do get some dramatic perorations as the crisis comes to a head). The Birdverse may be mythic in form, but it’s occupied by some fascinating and memorable characters we won’t soon forget, and whose problems subtly and wisely reflect our own.
Locus

Reading this book is like diving into the most beautiful language exploring various aspects of human possibility. Everything in this book is so fluid from the words, the setting itself, but also the characters–the way they think, the way they feel, and the way they present. The play on words feels like you’re inside a poet’s playground. The language has flow–it’s mellifluous.
Infinite Text

I should hope that the answer to this is obvious, since it impacted me so greatly, but to state it outright: yes, you should read this book. For those who are drowning in their own tangle of concerns like I have been for the past year and beyond, this story is a respite and a consolation. It will not fix your problems, because if such a thing was possible due to a single book, the publishing industry would be in a much more secure position and authors would get paid more. But it did make me cry, and it helped me to sort through my feelings, and it gave me the strength to write this post, despite being gone for so long without notice.
Trans Narrative

The book is challenging to read as it’s so dense, but the premise is that both characters are trying to save their city from a star, which also needs some saving. The book also explores nonbinary gender identities, which makes it well worth a read.
8 Notable Nonbinary SFF Books You Need to Check Out

June 15, 2022

Excitement abounds for Sam J. Miller’s debut collection BOYS, BEASTS & MEN with interviews, reviews, a book trailer & more

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The release of Sam J. Miller’s debut collection BOYS, BEASTS & MEN launched with a flurry of activity, all positive. Though the book is already sold out at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop (more copies on their way), copies should be available from your local bookstore and as always directly from Tachyon.

Cover of BOYS, BEASTS, & MEN, a collection by Sam J. Miller. — Cover by Jennifer O’Toole
Design by Elizabeth Story

**Andrew Liptak, in his Transfer Orbit newsletter, not only reviewed the book and interviewed Miller but also offered the first look at the book trailer!**

It’s a superb roundup of a prolific author’s short stories: tales that deal with complicated, messy lives of people trying to make their way through life, faced with uncertain and dangerous worlds.
Transfer Orbit

Collections are always interesting to read from short fiction authors, because of the curation involved. What was the determination that you made for each story to be placed here?

I was fortunate to be able to be very picky here, because these actually represent less than half of my published stories!

Ultimately I wanted to include the stories that got the best response from readers – including ones that got award recognition or were anthologized – but I also wanted to be able to tell a broader story about masculinity and monstrosity and patriarchy, which are obviously super important themes in my work, and these seemed like the best stories with which to tell that story.
Transfer Orbit

A whole host of reviews appeared for the collection including contributions from Margaret Kingsbury in “20 Amazing New Science Fiction And Fantasy Beach Reads“ (BuzzFeed), **Gary K. Wolfe at Locus, Melody Bowles from The British Fantasy Society, BC Clark at Ancillary Review of Books, Neil Czeszejko at Delphic Reviews, Just Geeking By, and Disciples of Boltax.**

All 14 of these brilliant, character-driven short stories are perfectly crafted, subtly altering reality using SFF elements while managing to fully explore the repercussions of doing so with the conciseness a short story requires.
20 Amazing New Science Fiction And Fantasy Beach Reads (BuzzFeed)

Miller is clearly one of the generation of writers thoroughly comfortable with genre hopping (or genre-ignoring, or genre-pillaging), and BOYS, BEASTS & MEN is no exception to that. . . . Given the pain and joy that Miller can so vividly evoke, it’s both an admonition and a celebration.
Locus

Overall, I enjoyed the wide variety of stories in BOYS, BEASTS & MEN. Not every story was a hit for me, but they were certainly all memorable. If you like your fantasy and sci-fi with realistic grit to ground it, pick this one up.
The British Fantasy Society

Sam J. Miller’s stories collected in BOYS, BEASTS & MEN are fire in about the same way a blast furnace is. They are full of evolving, disintegrating, and re-assembling identities, a funhouse hall of molten mirrors. These stories burn away façades to reveal true histories full of fierce magic. Histories queer as all hell’s furies unleashed. Histories often uncontrollable by those who bend the course of the story. An able craftsman, Miller harnesses the powers of the twin underground rivers of loneliness and desire to channel the rage and hope of his characters. And through that craft, Miller brings tales of justice regained and character reframed
Ancillary Review of Books

BOYS, BEASTS & MEN is a phenomenal short story collection that brings to mind a pack of wolves, with each story pulsing to its own heartbeat, straining at the leash that affixes it to the whole with bestial vigor.
Delphic Reviews

To be honest, the entire anthology is mesmerising. Miller’s writing is witty and hard-hitting, drawing out stories from angles that most people don’t tend to see.
Just Geeking By

The stories in this collection run the gamut from scary to angry to sad to kind but they all have a raw humanity that I loved. I recommend this book highly and hope to read more from Mr. Miller in the future.
Disciples of Boltax

**Arley Song for Clarkesworld interviewed Miller.**

Is there anything else you’d like readers to know about this book?

That the incredible Amal El-Mohtar wrote the introduction! And it’s amazing! Seriously made me choke up when I read it. In 2014, when my short story “We Are the Cloud” (included in the collection) was published in Lightspeed, it got some super homophobic reviews, which suuuuuuuuucked—any LGBTQIA+ SFF writer can tell you that queering the genre means coming up against a whole lot of really vicious trolls—and Amal wrote the most beautiful review/defense of the story; that’s how I knew she’d be the perfect person to do the introduction.
Clarkesworld

February 4, 2021

Lyrical and magical, R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES is one of the best and most interesting books of 2020

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Cover by Elizabeth Story based on initial concepts by Francesca Myman

Gary K. Wolfe, in his LOCUS year in review, calls out R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES.

There were, of course, enough worldbuilding fantasies to satisfy an aspiring psychotic, and one of the most interesting fully invented settings I saw was in R.B. Lemberg’s first Birdverse novel, THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES, a poetic tale set on a sparse desert world filled with a rich variety of genderfluid and nonbinary characters – sometimes facing rigid societal restrictions – but perhaps even more unusually featuring two protagonists already well past middle age.

In their SALON FUTURA, Cheryl Morgan praises the novella.

I’m always a little nervous approaching books centring trans characters that everyone else raves about. Of course I shouldn’t have been worried about RB Lemberg. They know what they are doing. But I was pleasantly surprised that there was so much more to THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES than the trans elements.

The quality of the novellas published in 2020 is amazing. This book is right up there with the best of them.

LIBRI DRACONIS feels much the same.

I really liked this novella, and I highly recommend it if you like lyrical, magical stories.

In their 2020 Wrap-Up: Statistics & Top Books, TO OTHER WORLDS includes the book among their Top 9 books.

A tapestry of a novella centering two elderly trans protagonists, weaving magic, identity, belonging, and so many other things. Lovely prose, too.

August 5, 2020

R. B. Lemberg’s gorgeous prose sets THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES apart as one of the most beautifully written fantasies of the year

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Roughly one month from publication, R. B. Lemberg’s THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES (not due until September, but available for pre-order from your favorite bookseller or direct from Tachyon) continues to garner praise.

In LOCUS (August 2020), Gary K. Wolfe reviews the novella.

For nearly a decade, R.B. Lemberg has been developing their Birdverse world in a number of stories and poems, and I confess to having seen only a handful of them prior to reading their first novel THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES. But the novel provides most of what you need to know about this universe, which worships the god Bird and Bird’s ‘‘hidden brother Kimri,’’ who serves as a men’s god for some of the tribes and alliances that make up this rather sparse desert world. Lemberg was, as I recall, the only author to become a finalist for the Crawford fantasy award on the basis of a volume of poetry (Marginalia to Stone Bird), and it’s apparent from the outset that their novel is the work of a poet. The prose is lyrical, evocative, and precise, and it soars when it needs to, without ever yielding to coloratura dramatics.

That’s not the only thing appealing, and even refreshing, about this remarkable novel. For one thing, Lemberg demonstrates how it’s possible to construct an evocative and expansive setting without the need for hundreds of pages of arduous, stone-by-stone worldbuilding, and how, by doing this, the setting becomes a function of the tale, rather than the other way around. For another, they populate this tale with a fascinating mix of characters of various gender identities, including nonbinary children (one narrator’s grandchild is ‘‘neither a boy nor a girl’’; others are referred to as ‘‘in-between’’).

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For once, these aren’t whip-smart kids learning to be gods or kings, but complex, experienced older adults recognizing and acting on what a lifetime has taught them about resistance, redemption, and loyalty. If that isn’t rarity enough, Lemberg’s gorgeous prose sets THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES apart as one of the most beautifully written fantasies of the year.

BEAUTY IN THE RUINS feels much the same.

Powerful, magical, lyrical, and beautifully original, THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES is one of those books where you linger over each paragraph, admiring the flow of words almost as much as the flow of ideas. R.B. Lemberg weaves – quite literally – a tale of change that encompasses the transformation of bodies, families, and identities.

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While I don’t re-read a lot of books, I’m looking forward to sitting down and immersing myself in the paperback of THE FOUR PROFOUND WEAVES once it’s released. There’s such a depth of meaning to it all, I’m confident I’ll uncover a whole other reading.

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Early in the new year, R. B. Lemberg’s THE UNBALANCING continues to thrill and excite with a glowing mention from Gary K. Wolfe’s The Year in Review 2022 in Locus and praising reviews from R. M. Harper for The Fantasy Review and Marlene Harris’ Reading Reality.

Preorders for NEOM are currently available via the Tachyon site and all finer booksellers.

Samuel R. Delany Fellowship recipient Naseem Jamnia’s singular debut novella THE BRUISING OF QILWA wows in reviews from Gary K. Wolfe and Alex Brown, both in Locus, The Middle Shelf, and in a dual feature that includes R. B. Lemberg’s THE UNBALANCING, Stephen Case at Strange Horizons.

*SIGNED* copies of THE UNBALANCING are available for preorder from the fine folks at Raven Book Store.

Andrew Liptak, in his Transfer Orbit newsletter, not only reviewed the book and interviewed Miller but also offered the first look at the book trailer!

Arley Song for Clarkesworld interviewed Miller.

SIGNED copies of THE UNBALANCING are available for preorder from the fine folks at Raven Book Store.

**Andrew Liptak, in his Transfer Orbit newsletter, not only reviewed the book and interviewed Miller but also offered the first look at the book trailer!**

**Arley Song for Clarkesworld interviewed Miller.**