Maria Dahvana Headley. Harper, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-232052-0
Terminally ill from infancy, Aza is willing to accept that she’s dead. There’s a container of ashes to prove it. It’s on Earth, along with Jason—the boy who she’s long loved and who loves her in return—and every other familiar touchstone of her...
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Maria Dahvana Headley, Author . Hyperion $22.95 (275p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0230-6
When Idaho-born Headley, a 20-year-old NYU drama student, laments, "I felt like I'd dated and then hated every man in Manhattan," she thinks perhaps she's too critical. So she "decided that I would say yes to every man who asked...
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Maria Dahvana Headley. Dutton, $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95217-6
The blurbs compare Headley's Cleopatra-gone-bad fantasia to Diana Gabaldon and Neil Gaiman, but it's likely that the Anne Rice fans will find more to like here. Though there are some lovely romantic scenes at the outset, this is no romance. The...
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Maria Dahvana Headley and Kat Howard. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $20 (176p) ISBN 978-1-59606-679-3
Malcolm Mayes flees the ruin of his old life to start over in tiny Ione, Ore. after buying a house long-distance for $3,000. The price isn’t low just because the house is a fixer-upper. It also comes with a serious obligation: the mysterious Dusha...
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Edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman. Tachyon, $16.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-61696-257-9
This excellent anthology showcases up-and-coming speculative fiction writers, many of whom have received award nominations and critical attention to support their status as future influencers of the genre. The anthology opens with Alyssa Wong’s...
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Edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin. Solaris, $15.99 trade paperback (356p) ISBN 978-1781084175
Editors Shurin and Murad collect 22 stories about the shadowy, fiery beings called the djinn in this unusual anthology. One of the best is the seriously creepy “Reap” by Sami Shah, about a group in the New Mexico desert that operates a drone in...
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Maria Dahvana Headley. MCD, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-20843-1
“Everyone might be a monster underneath their skin,” thinks Dana Mills, a character in this clever reimagining of Beowulf as a mordant glimpse of the mores of contemporary suburbia. Dana is a maimed ex-soldier who lives in an abandoned railroad...
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Edited by Dave McKean and William Schafer. Subterranean, $40 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59606-825-4
McKean’s storied career as an illustrator, comics creator, and fine artist is the basis for this magnificent anthology, which contains 12 stories inspired by specific McKean images (all of which are included), as well as a short McKean comic. High...
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