Hal Duncan

In 2017, as the end days approach, beings that were once human gather to fight to control the Vellum, but to the Irish angel Phreedom, it has become clear that there is no divine or diabolic plan at work, only a vicious battle between the hawks of Heaven and Hell, with humanity stuck in the middle. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Vellum

In the sequel to Vellum, the angels of the Covenant race against time to bring order to the chaos of the Vellum worlds, caught in the eternal battle with the demons of the Sovereign, but neither side is prepared for Mad Jack Carter and his crew, who are willing to take on all comers to achieve their goals. Original. 40,000 first printing.

The Book of All Hours

Depuis des temps immémoriaux, le siège de Dieu est vacant. Ses anges et tous ceux dont le sang se charge d'une parcelle de divin, les Amortels, se sont divisés en deux clans : les Souverains et l'Alliance. Leur guerre n'a pas lieu dans les cieux, mais sur le Vélum, ce tissu de mondes en comparaison duquel notre Terre n'est qu'une trace de crasse sous l'ongle d'un pouce. Pour Joey, le roi Finn, Puck, Jack Flash et Thomas Messenger, la fin du monde a déjà eu lieu, en 2017 ou peut-être à 20 h 40... peu importe, car le livre de toutes les heures peut être réécrit : il suffit de posséder la bonne encre et une vraie peau d'ange. Encre met un point final au Livre de toutes les heures. Souvent comparée à L'Echiquier du mal, cette fresque apocalyptique, cette fantasy cubiste d'une ambition rare, s'adresse tout autant aux lecteurs de Dan Simmons qu'à ceux du Festin nu de William S. Burroughs.

Encre

"From blackest humour to bleakest horror, with twisted relish, Hal Duncan's eighteen tales dig into death--and the life that goes with it."--Back cover.

The Boy Who Loved Death

Four people condemned to Hell try to escape and find themselves facing the souls of the damned, who are transformed into a rioting mob.

Escape from Hell!

Acclaimed author and critic Hal Duncan turns his analytic eye towards the development and current state of speculatuve fiction in American and English writing in the pages of Rhapsody. Duncan's trademark wry humor and suffer-no-fools approach to critiquing the genre will make this book more than a resource for students of the field--anyone who enjoys reading tales of the fantastical and strange can find Duncan's insight worthwhile to read agan and again.

Notes on Strange Fictions

Rhapsody

Alex Dally MacFarlane

M. K. Hobson

Where can you find a television that sees five minutes into the future? Where can you find dragons trapped in a jar and an illness which turns people into glass? Where might you find families who sell their brainpower to corporations for penny wages, or dead relatives that sit down for family meals? Why, in the pages of Sybil's Garage No. 7, of course. In this seventh issue of the highly acclaimed series, you will find twenty-seven original works of fiction and poetry from today's top talent, with suggested musical accompaniment, our trademark design aesthetic, and much more. But be sure to leave a trail of breadcrumbs on your way into Sybil's Garage, or you may not find your way out. Published by Senses Five Press, the World Fantasy Award-winning publisher of Paper Cities, An Anthology of Urban Fantasy. Contributors include Kathryn E. Baker, Cheryl Barkauskas, Kelly Barnhill, Tom Crosshill, Hal Duncan, Lindsey Duncan, Amal El-Mohtar, Lyn C. A. Gardner, Juliet Gillies, M.K. Hobson, Swapna Kishore, Avi Kotzer, Terence Kuch, Megan Kurashige, Sam Ferree, Richard Larson, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Anil Menon, E.C. Myers, Adrienne J. Odasso, Eric Schaller, Alexandra Seidel, Amelia Shackelford, Amy Sisson, Sonya Taaffe, Marcie Lynn Tentchoff, Jacqueline West, & A.C. Wise

Sybil's Garage

An extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a fecund imagination that defies description. It’s 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours, the mythical tome within which the blueprint for all reality is transcribed, which has been lost somewhere in the Vellum—the vast realm of eternity upon which our world is a mere scratch. The Vellum, where the unkin are gathering for war. The Vellum, where a fallen angel and a renegade devil are about to settle an age-old feud. The Vellum, where the past, present, and future will collide with ancient worlds and myths. And the Vellum will burn. . . .

It's 20 years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart. Across the folds of time and space, though, rogues and rebels are rising up against the Empire.

Hal Duncan shattered the boundaries between genres with his stunning debut novel, Vellum, which shocked with the boldness of its ideas, seduced with the sensual beauty of its prose, and astonished with its imaginative sweep. Now Duncan returns with another epic tour de force that surpasses all expectations. Once, in the depths of prehistory, they were human. But in a moment of brutal transfiguration, they became unkin, beings who possessed the power to alter reality by accessing the Vellum: a realm of eternity containing every possibility, every paradox, every heaven . . . and every hell. The Vellum became a battleground where forces of order and chaos fought across time and space. The ultimate weapon in that bloody war spanning through history and myth, dreams and memory, was The Book of All Hours, a legendary tome within which the blueprint for all reality is inscribed, a volume long lost amid the infinite folds of the Vellum. Until, in 2017, it was found by Reynard Carter, a young man with the blood of unkin in his veins. Until Phreedom Messenger and her brother, Thomas, were swept up in an archetypal dance of death and rebirth. Until a hermit named Seamus Finnan found the courage to re-forge his broken soul, and a self-proclaimed angel called Metatron unleashed a plague of AI bitmites. Now, in the aftermath of the apocalypse, several survivors search desperately for the remnants of themselves scattered across the Vellum like torn pages, determined to use the blood of the unkin to rewrite The Book of All Hours, and to forge a new destiny for themselves and all humanity. Reality will never be the same.

It's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness . . . in their Havens in the Hinter. Across the folds of time and space, though, rogues and rebels are rising up against the Empire. From a mediaeval fortress where wandering mummers stage a Harlequin play based on Euripides’s The Bacchae and performed in the Cant … to Kentigern where another Harlequin, Jack Flash, wreaks havoc on a fascist state that thought him dead. From a 1939 Paris where Jack Carter and Seamus Finnan, heroes of the International Brigades, seek to rewrite history -- to a 1929 Berlin where a very different Jack seeks to save the world from a history he has helped make real. Locked in an eternal battle of chaos and order, it seems everyone must play their part now, as rebel or tyrant, hero or villain. ‘It is, quite simply, stunning and the most powerful debut novel I’ve read since Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell ’ -- Forbidden Planet International

Jamie Freeman

Steven Bereznai

Lee Thomas

Tom Cardamone

Marshall Moore

Jeffrey Ricker

Charles “Zan” Christensen

Damon Shaw

Matt Fagan

‘Nathan Burgoine

Rod M. Santos

Stellan Thorne

Thirteen short stories of terror, mayhem, and destruction which offer something highly unique in a genre that demands certain characters be only heroes or victims… gay villains! Prose collection with an introduction by Lambda Literary Award winning editor Tom Cardamone. Released by Northwest Press, which has been publishing quality LGBT-inclusive comics and graphic novels since 2010.

Tales of Queer Villainy!

The Lavender Menace

Are you prepared to enter acclaimed author Hal Duncan's world of scruffians and scamps and sodomites? Beware, for it is filled with the gay pirate gods of Love and Death, immortal scoundrels, and young men who find themselves forced to become villains. But who amongst us does not adore a gamin antihero? These fantastical tales from the fringes of an imaginative realm of supernatural fairies and human fey will captivate the reader. Light a smoke, raise a cup of whiskey, and seek a careful spot to cruise the Scruffians!

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