Octavia Cade

We talk about the tyranny of distance a lot in this country. That distance will not save us. THE STONE WĒTĀ is a climate thriller by one of New Zealand's most exciting new science fiction writers.

The Stone Wētā

IN A DYING WORLD, GRIEF HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN... With the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of species comes the Grief: an unstoppable melancholia that ends in suicide. When Ruby's friend, mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef, succumbs to the Grief, the letters she leaves behind reveal the hidden world of the resurrected dead. The Tasmanian tiger, brought back from extinction in an isolated facility, is only the first... but rebirth is not always biological, and it comes with a price. As a scientist, Ruby resists the Grief by focusing her research on resilient jellyfish, but she can't avoid choosing which side she's on. How can she fight against the dead and the forces behind them when doing so risks her home, her life, and the entire biosphere?

The Impossible Resurrection of Grief

Sam J. Miller

Jaymee Goh

Blake Jessop

Kiya Nicoll

Dianne M. Williams

Alexei Collier

Brandon O'Brien

Jennifer Shelby

Nina Niskanen

Lucie Lukacovicova

Rodrigo Juri

Justin Short

Leonardo Espinoza Benavides

Lauren Ring

Phoebe Barton

Luna Corbden

Selene dePackh

Laura Jane Swanson

Meridel Newton

Jonathan Shipley

Hal Y. Zhang

An anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories about characters recognizing the fascism in their worlds and making the choice to fight it.

A Science Fiction and Fantasy Anthology

Recognize Fascism

The August Birds

In a world where experience is currency, Rosemary is the owner of a very special library?a library of memory, where scented coins transfer personal experience from one individual to another. When she trades away the sole memory of her grandmother's final concerto, family opposition, in the form of her daughter Ruth, forces Rosemary to go on a quest to try and recover the lost coin. Yet having to trade away her own memories to get it back, how much of Rosemary will survive the exchange?

Trading Rosemary

Mary Shelley Makes a Monster

Kealan Patrick Burke

V. Castro

Cynthia Pelayo

Laurel Hightower

Gwen C. Katz

David Simmons

C. B. Jones

Yvette Tan

Paula D. Ashe

Felix I. D. Dimaro

Bitter Karella

J. A. Prentice

R. M. Kidd

Bert Sg

Jaclyn Youhana Garver

Kay Vaindal

Rowan Hill

John B. L. Goodwin

This World Belongs to Us is an anthology of horror stories about bugs, writ large: we're not scientists, so spiders and slugs and scorpions (oh my!) are in here too. This anthology features stories by Bram Stoker Award winner Kealan Patrick Burke, multiple Bram Stoker Award nominees Cynthia Pelayo and V. Castro, plus Paula D. Ashe, Octavia Cade, Felix I.D. Dimaro, Jaclyn Youhana Garver, Donnie Goodman, Laurel Hightower, Rowan Hill, C.B. Jones, Bitter Karella, Gwen Katz, R.M. Kidd, J.A. Prentice, Bert S.G., David Simmons, Yvette Tan, and Kay Vaindal as well as a major rediscovery--John B.L. Goodwin's 1946 story The Cocoon, one of the creepiest stories ever written but out of print for more than 40 years.

An Anthology of Horror Stories about Bugs

This World Belongs to Us

The Mussel Eater

The Don't Girls

Women Up To No Good

Sharp & Sugar Tooth

James Sallis

Neil Clarke

Lettie Prell

Fiona Moore

Volodymyr Arenev

Amal Singh

Sarah Pauling

Mykhailo Nazarenko

Clarkesworld #192

A. J. Fitzwater

Andi C. Buchanan

For the first time ever, the best short SFF from Aotearoa New Zealand is collected together in a single volume. This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018. Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you might prefer to avoid. Featuring: "We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice", by Octavia Cade (originally published in Strange Horizons) "Logistics", by A.J. Fitzwater (originally published in Clarkesworld) "The Garden", by Isabelle McNeur (originally published in Wizards in Space) "Trees", by Toni Wi (originally published in Breach) "A Most Elegant Solution", by M. Darusha Wehm (originally published in Terraform) "Mirror Mirror", by Mark English (originally published in Abyss & Apex) "A Brighter Future", by Grant Stone (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG)) "The People Between the Silences", by Dave Moore (originally published in Landfall) "Common Denominator", by Melanie Harding-Shaw (originally published in Wild Musette Journal) "The Billows of Sarto", by Sean Monaghan (originally published in Asimov's) "The Glassblower's Peace", by James Rowland (originally published in Aurealis) "Te Ika", by J.C. Hart (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG)) "Girls Who Do Not Drown", by Andi C. Buchanan (originally published in Apex)

Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Mythology of Salt and Other Stories

"The Ghost of Matter is a piece of speculative history about the man who split the atom, the silences between, and the grief of broken things"--Back cover.

The Ghost of Matter

Sometimes change can hurt. This collection of short stories traces the growing pains of a new world, beginning with the death throes of our current way of life and ending with a world transformed by science and technology, and by grief, hope, love, and humanity's will to transform. This is a collection that will both tear you apart and tend to your wounds. Cade's beautifully wrought stories are informed by science, tracing the biological and emotional threads that bind us, human and non-human alike. Containing a brand new novelette in the Impossible Resurrection of Grief universe, You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories is a promise of what worlds are possible if we allow ourselves to change.

You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories

C.D. Jacobs

Daniel Stride

Deryn Pittar

Jan Goldie

Paul Chapman

Nicky Taylor

Melanie Harding-Shaw

Melissa Gunn

Erica Challis

Gary M. Nelson

Robinne Weiss

Scott Fack

Feby Idrus

Gregory Dally

Hazel Bergen

A. Zaykova

Jacqui Greaves

Bing Turkby

Barbara Uini

Trisha Hannifin

Miriam Hurst

I.K. Paterson

Welcome to the end of the world ...and more importantly, what comes after. Disasters have occured around the country and the world, but we're "getting through it", as Kiwi are apt to do. She'll be right. Life moves on, in some form.Things were bad here in Aotearoa, but in our isolation down under, we've escaped most of the chaos around the world. In fact, we might be the last bastion of humanity on the planet - anybody else home out there? Radio silence. Nada. Zip. This is not, however, just an anthology of disaster stories. These pages are filled with hope in the form of short stories, poems, flash fiction and artwork about what comes afterwards. The contributions are exclusively from SpecFicNZ members and reflect the diversity and breadth of this country we love to call home ... even if the edges are a bit torn and tatterred. Nothing that a bit of Kiwi ingenuity and some number 8 wire can't fix, eh? This is Aftermath : stories of survival in Aotearoa New Zealand. Kia kaha. Stay strong. And remember - we are always stronger together. Kotahitanga.

Stories of Survival in Aotearoa New Zealand

Aftermath

Phillip Mann

Tim Jones

Lee Murray

Grant Stone

Piper Mejia

Marie Hodgkinson

K.C. Bailey

A.C. Buchanan

I.K. Paterson-Harkness

Six science fiction and fantasy novellas from Aotearoa New Zealand

Shortcuts : Track 1

Hansel and Gretel. Turkish Delight. Viscous blood and meaty gristle. From the rituals that surround mealtime to the culture-spanning tales of insatiably hungry monsters, food is often used as both tool and metaphor in speculative fiction. In this award-winning collection of fifteen essays from Octavia Cade, the intersection of food and horror is explored in bone-crunching, marrow-slurping detail. You are what you eat, except when you aren't.

Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings

Food and Horror

Octavia Cade

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