Books published by Small Beer Press

Elliot doesn't want to fight, keeps saying the wrong thing, and is definitely the grouchiest human in fantasyland.

The first collection of short fiction from a rising star whose stories have been anthologized in the first two volumes of the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series and nominated for many awards. Some of Samatars weird and tender fabulations spring from her life and her literary studies; some spring from the world, some from the void.Praise for Sofia Samatars Books:The excerpt from Sofia Samatars compelling novel A Stranger in Olondria should be enough to make you run out and buy the book. Just dont overlook her short Selkie Stories Are for Losers, the best story about loss and love and selkies Ive read in years. K. Tempest Bradford, NPRAn imaginative, poetic, and dark meditation on how history gets made. Hello BeautifulPleasantly startling and unexpected. Her prose is by turns sharp and sumptuous, and always perfectly controlled. . . . There are strains here too of Jane Austen and something wilder.Publishers Weekly (starred review)Like an alchemist, Sofia Samatar spins golden landscapes and dazzling sentences. Shelf Awareness (starred review)Beauty, wonder, and a soaring paean to the power of story.Jason Heller, NPRHighly recommended. N. K. Jemisin, New York Times Book ReviewSofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories. She has written for the Guardian, Strange Horizons, and Clarkesworld, among others, and has won the John W. Campbell Award, the Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award. She lives in Virginia.

Two short novels starring lovable chefs Rickey and G-man, living and cooking in pre-Katrina New Orleans.

¿ Includes a number of unpublished stories ¿ New stories to be placed this year in run up to publication ¿ Debut collection from a respected and well-connected author ¿ Build our support from Raleigh, to NC, to SIBA, to national

Planted deeply in the dark, musical fantastic heart of American storytelling, Cotman's half dozen tales are ripe for the picking.

Fiction that will inspire you to blow open the doors and kick out those supposedly in charge.

Andy Duncan has shamelessly told flat-out made-up stories for twenty years, and this book right here is the evidence!

Jonathan Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over hellfire in his most famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice, no matter how mighty, drowns all others. Grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine unexpectedly in this New England tale.