Current Titles
Warrior Wisewoman 2 edited by Roby James
Norilana Books presents the second volume of an exciting new annual anthology series of science fiction featuring powerful and remarkable women.
Explore the truth of what it means to be female, and discover the wisdom and the strength of a woman in a grand universe without limits. Far-ranging scientific speculation meets action and adventure, grand space opera, thrilling discovery, and intelligent protagonists...
"James has done a good job of assembling a lineup that satisfies more than it disappoints and is a properly varied representation of feminist science fiction."
—Publishers Weekly
"...The 15 original stories in this theme collection explore the many roles of women in the future, as warrior, nurturer, or sometimes both. A good selection for larger sf collections."
—Library Journal
"The stories are austere, lyrical, and fuse science with ethics and emotion in a way that is very rare."
—Susan Shwartz
Table of Contents
Introduction by Roby James
"The Executioner" by Jennifer Brissett
"Shop Talk" by Ian Whates
"Working the High Steel" by Jennifer R. Povey
"Changer" by Ardath Mayhar
"The Last Nice Afternoon in October" by Leslie Brown
"Lady Blaze" by Lee Martindale
"The Making of Her" by Sarah Ellender & Michael O'Connor
"Sister Grass" by Deborah Walker
"Heart Bowed Down" by Jeff Crook
"Peacock Dancer" by Catherine Mintz
"Bloody Albatross" by David Bartell
"Gardens of Wind" by Kate MacLeod
"Silent Whispers" by Karen Elizabeth Rigley & Ann Miller House
"Beneath the Alien Shield" by Z. S. Adani
"Rainfire by Night" by DJ Cockburn
About the Authors
Submission Guidelines
(Guidelines will be updated once the reading period for the new vvolume begins.)
Business Secrets from the Stars by David Dvorkin
Malcolm Erskine is a moderately successful writer who hits the big time with a book of nonsensical business advice that he claims was telepathically beamed into his mind by a top business executive living in a faraway galaxy.
It's Business Secrets From The Stars!
Malcolm succeeds in making a bundle. But he also attracts the attention of loopy politicians, dangerous televangelists, senile assassins, and even stranger and creepier types. The only way Malcolm can escape disaster is to change the world.
"A broad and bitter political satire. I was laughing out loud."
—The Denver Post
David Dvorkin was born in England, lived in South Africa, and attended high school and college in the United States. He has been an aerospace engineer, software developer, and technical writer. He lives in Denver, Colorado, where he works in the software industry.
He has published 17 novels—science fiction, horror, mystery, and three Star Trek novels—and one non-fiction book. He has collaborated with his son, Daniel, on two novels. His wife, Leonore, is also an author. For much more information, links, seriousness, and silliness, please visit his and Leonore's website: www.dvorkin.com.
Original Press Release (8-11-08)
East of the Sun and West of Fort Smith by William Sanders
East of the Sun and West of Fort Smith by award-winning author William Sanders is the definitive story collection from one of speculative fiction's most original and controversial authors. Includes an introduction by Rick Bowes.
"William Sanders is wickedly funny, a great storyteller, and a writer with peculiar ideas."
—Claude Lalumière in Locus
"Sanders is witty, caustic, clever, cynical, and not very PC at all."
—Tom Easton in Analog
William Sanders was born in Arkansas in 1942 and served with the US Army Security Agency during the Vietnam War. He is the author of more than 20 published books and many stories and articles; his short fiction has been nominated for major awards, including the Hugo and Nebula, and has twice won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. He lives in Oklahoma with his motorcycle and his dog.
Original Press Release (3-25-08)
Warrior Wisewoman edited by Roby James
Norilana Books presents the first volume of an exciting new annual anthology series of science fiction featuring powerful and remarkable women.
Explore the truth of what it means to be female, and discover the wisdom and the strength of a woman in a grand universe without limits. Far-ranging scientific speculation meets action and adventure, grand space opera, thrilling discovery, and intelligent protagonists...
"Warrior Wisewoman combines stories of women in struggles that range across political, biological, social, and even military lines in a future variably far away...women who may or may not fight with weapons, but always strive for something beyond the fight. Inventive, unusual, these are stories to ponder over time...whether the reader agrees that the women are warriors, or wise, or that anyone can be both."
—Elizabeth Moon, author of The Speed of Dark, Remnant Population, and The Deed of Paksenarrion
"The stories in Warrior Wisewoman create new ways of looking at ideas, science fiction, and living itself at a time when we are all hungry for new thoughts expressed in new ways. The stories are austere, lyrical, and fuse science with ethics and emotion in a way that is very rare. If Le Guin’s people who walked away from Omelas told us their stories, they would write like this."
—Susan Shwartz, author of Hostile Takeover, Second Chances and Grail of Hearts; editor of Sisters in Fantasy
"The 12 stories in this collection, intended as an sf companion of the late Marion Zimmer Bradley's classic "Sword and Sorceress" series, feature women protagonists as they take on the roles of either warrior or wisewoman-or both-to cope with their surroundings and find their inner truths... Suitable for most sf or short story collections."
—Library Journal
Table of Contents
Introduction by Roby James
"Ungraceful Cliff Dwellers" by Douglas A. Van Belle
"To Find Home Again" by Rose Lemberg
"Heaven Shed Tears" by Catherine Mintz
"An Ashwini Apart" by Bhaskar Dutt
"A New Kind of Sunrise" by Nancy Fulda
"Faith" by Fran LaPlaca
"Among The Wastes of Time" by Mary Catelli
"Keepers of The Corn" by Anna Sykora
"As Darwin Decreed" by Peg Robinson
"Christmas Wedding" by Vylar Kaftan
"Ice Queen" by Colleen Anderson
"Only a Personal Tragedy" by Sally Kuntz
About the Authors
Publisher's Note
Submission Guidelines
(Guidelines will be updated once the reading period for the new vvolume begins.)
J. by William Sanders
"Girl meets girl meets girl, and she is them. J. is a high-energy sprint across parallel realities. Did I mention that I'm in love with Mad Jack?"
—Susan R. Matthews, author of Prisoner of Conscience and Colony Fleet
Three women in three worlds:.
Dr. Ann Lucas, former NASA scientist and now a drugged and helpless mental patient, in a reality almost but not quite our own.
Mad Jack, one eyed gunwoman and lover of women, in a ruined and lawless wasteland world.
Jay Younger, living in the here and now, known to her readers simply as Jay—a science fiction writer whose literary career is on the brink of disaster, an alcoholic and emotional wreck.
When the impossible becomes real and boundaries between worlds start to dissolve, the fates of these three tormented, brave and intense women come together in a remarkable and daring story that examines the basic nature of reality and of human identity.
William Sanders was born in Arkansas in 1942 and served with the US Army Security Agency during the Vietnam War. He is the author of more than 20 published books and many stories and articles; his short fiction has been nominated for major awards, including the Hugo and Nebula, and has twice won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. He lives in Oklahoma with his motorcycle and his dog.
Original Press Release (6-25-07)
