Books published by Aeon Press

Over the last 21 years, Albedo One, Ireland's premiere magazine of science fiction, fantasy and horror, has enjoyed a rich and varied history, picking up several accolades along the way, including three European Science Fiction Society awards. From the outset, the magazine became known for featuring quality fiction from new and emerging writers. And now, collected under one cover for the first time is a selection of the very best of that fiction from the first decade of Albedo One's existence. Witness a post-apocalyptic Earth where the bloated descendants of humankind gorge themselves on the offerings of automated food dispensers that are slowly breaking down. Queue up to view the essence of a lost love caught in an amber moment. Join Edmund Hillary on one last climb, to the top of the Tower of Babel. Don't let even death stop you from taking over the family business. Lease a Dada Machine and create new works of art by dead masters. Dip in and enjoy a baker's dozen of stories from the imaginations of Gil Alderman, John Hanamy, Sean Mac Roibin, David Murphy, Robert Neilson, Mike O'Driscoll, Peadar O Guilin, Philip Raines & Harvey Welles, Dermot Ryan, John W. Sexton, H. Turnip Smith, Tais Teng and Neil Williamson."

A Locus Recommended fantasy novel and Cybils-Award nomineeDuring the Cold War a 13-year-old American boy, Brad Lattimer, moves with his family to a fishing village in Northern Italy. It is no ordinary village. But Brad is welcomed like a long-lost cousin. His teacher is a gentle hunchback with a lisp who is more than he seems to be; and there are witches in the olive groves who will poison your cat, but not for the reasons you imagine. In those same groves there is a village so small it shouldn't be a village, its red doorways too short for normal men to pass through easily; and at night, on its narrow cobble street, creatures that should not exist walk while a single baby cries forever. On the sands of the next cove sits a pale girl who somehow knows the poetry of the great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and wants you to drown with her, just as Percy drowned near this village over a century ago. This is the village where Brad, too, will start to dream strange dreams and write his first stories; where, he will fall sick because the village's magic has a hold on him: It wants him to become something other than a boy--something that can never leave it--something it can have as its own forever.