Lisa Mason

Summer of Love

"A must-read collection." The San Francisco Review of Books As Lisa Mason mulled over her short fiction, she found seven wildly different stories with one thing in common-a heroine totally unlike her. Mason is the girl next door. She has no idea where these Strange Ladies came from. In "The Oniomancer" (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine), a Chinese-American punk bicycle messenger finds an artifact on the street. In "Guardian" (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine), an African-American gallerist resorts to voodoo to confront a criminal. In "Felicitas" (Desire Burn: Women Writing from the Dark Side of Passion [Carroll and Graf]), a Mexican immigrant faces life as a cat shapeshifter. In "Stripper" (Unique Magazine), an exotic dancer battles the Mob. In "Triad" (Universe 2 [Bantam]), Dana Anad lives half the time as a woman, half as a man, and falls in love with a very strange lady. In "Destination" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction), a driver takes three strangers from a ride board on a cross-country trip as the radio reports that a serial killer is on the loose. In "Transformation and the Postmodern Identity Crisis" (Fantastic Alice [Ace]), Alice considers life after Wonderland. Lisa Mason has published ten novels, including Summer of Love (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book), The Gilded Age (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book), The Garden of Abracadabra ("Fun and enjoyable urban fantasy"), and Arachne (A Locus Hardcover Bestseller), and thirty-one stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Her Omni story, "Tomorrow's Child," sold outright as a feature film to Universal Studios. Her latest novel is One Day in the Life of Alexa. Represented by Mark Gottlieb, Trident Media Group

7 Stories

Strange Ladies

Chiron Cat's Eye in Draco journeys back in time from the twenty-fifth century to 1967 Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, to find a girl named Starbright among the psychedelic participants in the Summer of Love and to stop a potential calamity in the timestream. Original.

A second volume of poetry from Lisa Mason, written between 200-2008. A 55-page collection of poems specifically chosen for the theme of the self-titled, I Hate the Poem.

I Hate the Poem

In twenty-fifth-century China, Zhu Wong is part of a paramilitary cadre dedicated to enforcing the Generation-Skipping Law, but when she is arrested for attempted murder, she must travel into the past, to San Francisco in 1895, to search for a slave woman. Reprint.

The Golden Nineties

James Sallis

Yoon Ha Lee

J. M. Sidorova

Jane Yolen

James Morrow

Elizabeth Bourne

Robert Reed

Brian Francis Slattery

Geoff Ryman

Barry N. Malzberg

Harry Turtledove

Scott Bradfield

David Marusek

Jennifer Marie Brissett

Don D'Ammassa

Deepak Unnikrishnan

Paul Witcover

Paul La Farge

Eileen Gunn

J. S. Breukelaar

Deji Bryce Olukotun

Richard Bowes

Matthew Hughes

Ron Goulart

Ted White

Michael Kandel

Ray Vukcevich

Ruth Nestvold

Jay Russell

Stephanie Feldman

K. G. Anderson

Becca Caccavo

Eric James Fullilove

Leslie Howle

Janis Ian

Heather Lindsley

Marry Anne Mohanraj

Marguerite Reed

Madeleine E. Robins

TS Vale

Leo Vladimirsky

N. Lee Wood

Thomas Kaufsek

Michael Libling

In this diverse and vigorous mix of stories by newcomers and luminaries, writers offer their takes on what life might hold for us in the next few years. The resulting visions of war, oppression, and daily struggle are sometimes humorous, sometimes terrifying (and occasionally both), but always thought-provoking.

45 Visions of What Lies Ahead

Welcome to Dystopia

A New York Times Notable Book A New York Public Library Recommended Book The sequel to Summer of Love, A Time Travel (A Philip K. Dick award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book) The year is 1895 and immigrants the world over are flocking to California on the transcontinental railroad and on transoceanic steamships. The Zoetrope demonstrates the persistence of vision, patent medicines addict children to morphine, and women are rallying for the vote. In San Francisco, saloons are the booming business, followed by brothels. The Barbary Coast is a notorious sink of iniquity and, atop Telegraph Hill, jousting tournaments draw blood. In Chinatown, the tongs deal in opium, murder-for-hire, and slave girls. Zhu Wong, a prisoner in twenty-fifth century China, is given a choice-stand trial for murder or go on a risky time-travel project to San Francisco, 1895 to rescue a slave girl and take her to safety. Charmed by the city's opulent glamour, Zhu will discover the city's darkest secrets. A fervent population control activist in a world of twelve billion people, she will become an indentured servant to the city's most notorious madam. Fiercely disciplined, she will fall desperately in love with the troubled self-destructive heir to a fading fortune. And when the careful plans of the Gilded Age Project start unraveling, Zhu will discover that her choices not only affect the future but mean the difference between her own life or death. Cover by Tom Robinson. "A winning mixture of intelligence and passion." The New York Times Book Review Literary agent: Mark Gottlieb, Trident Media Group Lisa Mason has published ten novels including Summer of Love (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book), The Gilded Age (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book), Strange Ladies: 7 Stories (a collection of previously published short fiction), and thirty stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies worldwide. Her Omni story, "Tomorrow's Child," sold outright as a feature film to Universal Studios.

A Time Travel

The Gilded Age

Carly Nolan, a young telelinked attorney of post-quake San Francisco, finds her life in danger when renegade robots conspiring to steal bits of the human subconscious target her in their fiendish schemes

Arachne T

While the Imperium holds sway over Pangaea, sex remains a shameful remnant of the past, but when Pangaea's most beloved dreamer is brutally assassinated, a dangerous group of revolutionaries fights for the return of violence, sex, and freedom. Original.

Imperium Without End

Lisa Mason

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