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I-5: A Novel
Summer Brenner
I-5 tells the brutal story of Anya and her journey north from Los Angeles to Oakland on the interstate that bisects the Central Valley of California.
I-5 tells the brutal story of Anya and her journey north from Los Angeles to Oakland on the interstate that bisects the Central Valley of California.
$17.95
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Flume
Brian Evenson
With one foot in the avant-garde and the other in the pulp tradition, Evenson’s stark vision is never comfortable, always provocative, and, more often than one might think, darkly amusing.
With one foot in the avant-garde and the other in the pulp tradition, Evenson’s stark vision is never comfortable, always provocative, and, more often than one might think, darkly amusing.
$15.00
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Juju: Poems and Watercolors
Silvia Federici and Begonia Santa-Cecilia
Juju brings together text and image to form an urgent, tender record of survival, solidarity, and the quiet power of making something together when making anything at all may feel impossible.
Juju brings together text and image to form an urgent, tender record of survival, solidarity, and the quiet power of making something together when making anything at all may feel impossible.
$24.95
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Now Then
Kim Stanley Robinson, Donald Wesling, Carrol B. Fleming, and T.C. Marshall
From across the Sierras to the Caribbean to the backyard minutiae of “home,” these poems travel through time and place.
From across the Sierras to the Caribbean to the backyard minutiae of “home,” these poems travel through time and place.
$15.00
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Machine Elves Descending
John King
“John King is an adventurous avant-garde novelist. The sheer virtuosity of his language overflows with a richness of invention.” —Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
“John King is an adventurous avant-garde novelist. The sheer virtuosity of his language overflows with a richness of invention.” —Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
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White Trash
John King
Set against a background of pirate radio stations, pink Cadillacs, and freeway dreams, White Trash insists there is no such thing as white trash.
Set against a background of pirate radio stations, pink Cadillacs, and freeway dreams, White Trash insists there is no such thing as white trash.
$19.95
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Fire on the Mountain
Terry Bisson
Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry had been successful.
Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry had been successful.
$18.95
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The Tongue I Dream In
Sheree Renée Thomas
The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.
The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.
$16.00
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Rubble
Seraj Assi
In a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, and mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the rubble of a bombing—alive, but barely.
In a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, and mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the rubble of a bombing—alive, but barely.
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Veni Vidi Venti
Ian Shoales
Shoales’s acerbic commentary cuts to the core of issues of the day and to the philosophical puzzles that have intrigued and annoyed us since we first fell out of the trees.
Shoales’s acerbic commentary cuts to the core of issues of the day and to the philosophical puzzles that have intrigued and annoyed us since we first fell out of the trees.
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She Is Here
Nicola Griffith
Widely acclaimed as a novelist, here Nicola Griffith displays her power, precision, and clarity of thought in multiple modes and forms.
Widely acclaimed as a novelist, here Nicola Griffith displays her power, precision, and clarity of thought in multiple modes and forms.
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Not What I Intended
Nancy Kress
A collection of stories, essays, and an interview explaining her own history and worldview, comprising a brief tourist’s guide for the world to come.
A collection of stories, essays, and an interview explaining her own history and worldview, comprising a brief tourist’s guide for the world to come.
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The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers
Terry Bisson
"PM's Outspoken Authors Series looks almost like a science fiction Who’s Who or Hall of Fame, except that I included myself. Because I could." —Terry Bisson
"PM's Outspoken Authors Series looks almost like a science fiction Who’s Who or Hall of Fame, except that I included myself. Because I could." —Terry Bisson
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The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story
Owen Hill • Foreword by Jonathan Lethem
Blackburn is a sly, witty, and more or less reliable raconteur of the last thirty something years of the Bay Area’s radical bohemia and bookselling.
Blackburn is a sly, witty, and more or less reliable raconteur of the last thirty something years of the Bay Area’s radical bohemia and bookselling.
$22.95
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The Story of the Stone: Tales, Entreaties, and Incantations
James Kelman
People should know that their stories count, no matter how personal, how emotional, how eccentric, how trivial, how stupid or how self-centred they may appear.
People should know that their stories count, no matter how personal, how emotional, how eccentric, how trivial, how stupid or how self-centred they may appear.
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Vanished: The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda, Second Edition
Ahmed Masoud
An engaging and thought-provoking work by a writer deeply rooted in the continuing travails of the society he grew up in.
An engaging and thought-provoking work by a writer deeply rooted in the continuing travails of the society he grew up in.
$23.95
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From Sun to Sun
Kenneth Wishnia
A highly unconventional crime novel that presents two parallel stories separated by twenty-five centuries.
A highly unconventional crime novel that presents two parallel stories separated by twenty-five centuries.
$19.95
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All We Have Is the Story: Selected Interviews 1973–2022
James Kelman
Collects fifty years of interviews, both published and unpublished, revealing Kelman’s thinking on a breadth of topics.
Collects fifty years of interviews, both published and unpublished, revealing Kelman’s thinking on a breadth of topics.
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The Collapsing Frontier
Jonathan Lethem
This collection compiles Lethem's intensely personal takes on the most interesting and deplorable topics in post-postmodern America.
This collection compiles Lethem's intensely personal takes on the most interesting and deplorable topics in post-postmodern America.
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Shades of Resistance: A Novel
Joseph Matthews
Set in Greece in 1973, this novel explores the relationship between the personal and the political—the heightened responses of a man trapped in a moment of history—capturing political terror with both shuddering intensity and
Set in Greece in 1973, this novel explores the relationship between the personal and the political—the heightened responses of a man trapped in a moment of history—capturing political terror with both shuddering intensity and
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Karl Marx Private Eye
Jim Feast
A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events.
A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events.
$5.00
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This Rancid Mill: An Alex Damage Novel
Kyle Decker
Many of the story's themes revolve around the tough front Alex puts up but ultimately peels back, subverting the trope of the ultramasculine hard-boiled hero.
Many of the story's themes revolve around the tough front Alex puts up but ultimately peels back, subverting the trope of the ultramasculine hard-boiled hero.
$17.95
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Upcoming Releases
I-5: A Novel
Summer Brenner
I-5 tells the brutal story of Anya and her journey north from Los Angeles to Oakland on the interstate that bisects the Central Valley of California.
I-5 tells the brutal story of Anya and her journey north from Los Angeles to Oakland on the interstate that bisects the Central Valley of California.
$17.95
Upcoming Releases
Flume
Brian Evenson
With one foot in the avant-garde and the other in the pulp tradition, Evenson’s stark vision is never comfortable, always provocative, and, more often than one might think, darkly amusing.
With one foot in the avant-garde and the other in the pulp tradition, Evenson’s stark vision is never comfortable, always provocative, and, more often than one might think, darkly amusing.
$15.00
Upcoming Releases
Juju: Poems and Watercolors
Silvia Federici and Begonia Santa-Cecilia
Juju brings together text and image to form an urgent, tender record of survival, solidarity, and the quiet power of making something together when making anything at all may feel impossible.
Juju brings together text and image to form an urgent, tender record of survival, solidarity, and the quiet power of making something together when making anything at all may feel impossible.
$24.95
Upcoming Releases
Now Then
Kim Stanley Robinson, Donald Wesling, Carrol B. Fleming, and T.C. Marshall
From across the Sierras to the Caribbean to the backyard minutiae of “home,” these poems travel through time and place.
From across the Sierras to the Caribbean to the backyard minutiae of “home,” these poems travel through time and place.
$15.00
Fiction & Literature
Machine Elves Descending
John King
“John King is an adventurous avant-garde novelist. The sheer virtuosity of his language overflows with a richness of invention.” —Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
“John King is an adventurous avant-garde novelist. The sheer virtuosity of his language overflows with a richness of invention.” —Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
From $15.00
Books
White Trash
John King
Set against a background of pirate radio stations, pink Cadillacs, and freeway dreams, White Trash insists there is no such thing as white trash.
Set against a background of pirate radio stations, pink Cadillacs, and freeway dreams, White Trash insists there is no such thing as white trash.
$19.95
Books
Fire on the Mountain
Terry Bisson
Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry had been successful.
Presenting an alternative version of African American history, this novel explores what might have happened if John Brown's 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry had been successful.
$18.95
Books
The Tongue I Dream In
Sheree Renée Thomas
The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.
The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.
$16.00
Books
Rubble
Seraj Assi
In a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, and mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the rubble of a bombing—alive, but barely.
In a world scarred by indiscriminate bombing, forced starvation, and mass displacement, a nameless survivor lies crushed beneath the rubble of a bombing—alive, but barely.
$16.00
Books
Veni Vidi Venti
Ian Shoales
Shoales’s acerbic commentary cuts to the core of issues of the day and to the philosophical puzzles that have intrigued and annoyed us since we first fell out of the trees.
Shoales’s acerbic commentary cuts to the core of issues of the day and to the philosophical puzzles that have intrigued and annoyed us since we first fell out of the trees.
$15.00
Books
She Is Here
Nicola Griffith
Widely acclaimed as a novelist, here Nicola Griffith displays her power, precision, and clarity of thought in multiple modes and forms.
Widely acclaimed as a novelist, here Nicola Griffith displays her power, precision, and clarity of thought in multiple modes and forms.
$16.00
Books
Not What I Intended
Nancy Kress
A collection of stories, essays, and an interview explaining her own history and worldview, comprising a brief tourist’s guide for the world to come.
A collection of stories, essays, and an interview explaining her own history and worldview, comprising a brief tourist’s guide for the world to come.
$16.00
Books
The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers
Terry Bisson
"PM's Outspoken Authors Series looks almost like a science fiction Who’s Who or Hall of Fame, except that I included myself. Because I could." —Terry Bisson
"PM's Outspoken Authors Series looks almost like a science fiction Who’s Who or Hall of Fame, except that I included myself. Because I could." —Terry Bisson
$24.95
Books
The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story
Owen Hill • Foreword by Jonathan Lethem
Blackburn is a sly, witty, and more or less reliable raconteur of the last thirty something years of the Bay Area’s radical bohemia and bookselling.
Blackburn is a sly, witty, and more or less reliable raconteur of the last thirty something years of the Bay Area’s radical bohemia and bookselling.
$22.95
Books
The Story of the Stone: Tales, Entreaties, and Incantations
James Kelman
People should know that their stories count, no matter how personal, how emotional, how eccentric, how trivial, how stupid or how self-centred they may appear.
People should know that their stories count, no matter how personal, how emotional, how eccentric, how trivial, how stupid or how self-centred they may appear.
From $18.95
Just World Books
Vanished: The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda, Second Edition
Ahmed Masoud
An engaging and thought-provoking work by a writer deeply rooted in the continuing travails of the society he grew up in.
An engaging and thought-provoking work by a writer deeply rooted in the continuing travails of the society he grew up in.
$23.95
Books
From Sun to Sun
Kenneth Wishnia
A highly unconventional crime novel that presents two parallel stories separated by twenty-five centuries.
A highly unconventional crime novel that presents two parallel stories separated by twenty-five centuries.
$19.95
Books
All We Have Is the Story: Selected Interviews 1973–2022
James Kelman
Collects fifty years of interviews, both published and unpublished, revealing Kelman’s thinking on a breadth of topics.
Collects fifty years of interviews, both published and unpublished, revealing Kelman’s thinking on a breadth of topics.
From $5.00
Books
The Collapsing Frontier
Jonathan Lethem
This collection compiles Lethem's intensely personal takes on the most interesting and deplorable topics in post-postmodern America.
This collection compiles Lethem's intensely personal takes on the most interesting and deplorable topics in post-postmodern America.
From $16.00
Books
Shades of Resistance: A Novel
Joseph Matthews
Set in Greece in 1973, this novel explores the relationship between the personal and the political—the heightened responses of a man trapped in a moment of history—capturing political terror with both shuddering intensity and
Set in Greece in 1973, this novel explores the relationship between the personal and the political—the heightened responses of a man trapped in a moment of history—capturing political terror with both shuddering intensity and
From $20.00
Books
Karl Marx Private Eye
Jim Feast
A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events.
A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events.
$5.00
Books
This Rancid Mill: An Alex Damage Novel
Kyle Decker
Many of the story's themes revolve around the tough front Alex puts up but ultimately peels back, subverting the trope of the ultramasculine hard-boiled hero.
Many of the story's themes revolve around the tough front Alex puts up but ultimately peels back, subverting the trope of the ultramasculine hard-boiled hero.
$17.95