Books by Rachel Armstrong

Rachel Armstrong's follow-up to her critically aclaimed debut novel Origamy. Set in a near-future Venice, Invisible Ecologies tells the story of Po, an ambiguously gendered boy who shares an intimate connection with a nascent sentience emerging within the Po delta: the bioregion upon which the city of Venice is founded. The pair share a series of extraordinary adventures and, as Po starts school, stumble upon the Mayor's drastic plans to modernise the city and reshape the future of the lagoon and its people.How the critics reacted to Origamy:"Origamy is a magnificent, glittering explosion of a book: a meditation on creation, the poetry of science and the insane beauty of everything. You're going to need this." - Warren Ellis"Origamy crackles with a strange and brilliant energy, and folds the conventions of SF into beautiful new shapes. A rare and wonderful debut." - Adam Roberts"Perhaps the most astonishing and original piece of SF I've read in a long, long while." - Adrian Tchaikovsky"A visionary masterpiece. Science Fiction, Fantasy, science and poetry combine to create a lyric on life and death that spans the whole of creation. Delightful and mind-expanding. If you miss it you have missed one of the finest examples of literary art." - Justina Robson"The concepts, images, and settings found in this novel could easily power a quartet of more traditionally-arranged works..." - Tor.com"I'm still dumbfounded now." - SFcrowsnest"A whimsical, half-daft, drunken-prose-poem odyssey down alien byways. The closest thing to this book might be Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics." - Locus

Shoreline of Infinity is the winner of the British Fantasy Society Award 2018 for best magazine/periodical.New stories, interviews, reviews, art and poetry.Premee Mohamed - The Time Between TimeLaura Young - DaughterEsme Carpenter - Harry's ShiverBo Balder - Splitting UpCaroline Grebbell - Goodnight RosemarinusTim Major - Cast In the Same MouldRachel Armstrong - Origamy (extracts)Preston Grassmann - The Silk Tower of BeijingPoetry: Tris Crest. Charlotte Ozment, Nate Maxson Art competition: we have a winner - Jimmy McGregor The Beachcomber Presents: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Mark Toner, Stephen Pickering & Tsu Beel SF Caledonia: Chris Kelso on Preston Grassmann Interview: Rachel Armstrong