KATHE KOJA
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CHRISTOPHER WILD
Three lives. One man. Christopher Marlowe was the first rock star poet, a spy, an atheist, a gay rebel whose controversial plays thrilled audiences and challenged the government. CHRISTOPHER WILD is Kathe Koja’s newest novel, a daring remix of eras—the glitter and threat of Elizabethan England, a grimy mid-20th century, and a dark near-future of constant surveillance—as Marlowe loves and fights and writes his way through every dangerous age. |
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$35 TRADE EDITION Readers rave: "Christopher Wild is an imaginative historical novel, a menacing dystopia, and a grimy city tale in one . . . a raucous life, a claustrophobic life, a poet’s life, three times over." "A riveting, transporting read . . . With each incarnation of Kit, the entourage and ensemble of his first life follow him to work our their karmic destiny—to betray, bear witness, or save him. [R]aw, brilliant, riotously gritty." "Koja gives us an intensely romantic vision -- one that is entirely appropriate for Christopher Marlowe, the man turned legend due to his words." |
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THE BASTARDS' PARADISE 
How many lives they have lived, if only for a night! Puppets and peril, lonely streets and glittering salons—Rupert and Istvan have played through it all, and sought to make the road their lasting home. But that road winds through the past—including the brothel called the Rose and Poppy—while threats and invitations abound: a scheming social climber, a lovesick exile, the Mercury Theatre closed . . . or is it? Old friends from afar join comrades in the here-and-now, as power, love, and fate combine to play out the final chapter of the story of a lifetime. The curtains rose with UNDER THE POPPY, the passionate play continued in THE MERCURY WALTZ. Now Kathe Koja brings the POPPY trilogy to a stunning and masterful conclusion in THE BASTARDS’ PARADISE. |
“The final act in a grand epic: I loved this book. It broke my heart and made me cry, but it also made me grin, and shake my head, and turn the pages faster . . . Koja is a phenomenal writer.” - Cat Hellisen, author of BEASTKEEPER Trade Hardcover $35 Bespoke Edition - $100 Limited edition of 50 copies. Inscribed, and with a personal note from Kathe Koja to the reader. Each book is hand-tied in deluxe packaging, and includes a memory box of Poppy mementos; no two boxes are alike. 
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THE MERCURY WALTZ
We’re pursued by no one, now.
Having fled their comfortably dangerous brothel-and-theater known as the Poppy, Rupert and Istvan have traveled far to land in a city of sepia and silver, where they make new allies and settle old grudges. Ancient families clash with municipal thugs outside and inside the doors of the Mercury Theatre: the home Rupert has always longed for, with a stage created for Istvan’s wildest tales. Kathe Koja’s compelling sequel to Under the Poppy continues the timeless love and passionate play of its heroes, who can never truly escape their past. As their lives intertwine with a young blue-eyed fortuneteller, a foxy street sharpster, and a poet from the provinces come to this city on the brink of combustion, the promise of the Poppy is played out to the tune of The Mercury Waltz. |
"The Mercury Waltz returns us to the grimy, decadent, fin-de-siècle world of Under the Poppy, cranking the resolution to reveal every brilliantly imagined nook of one corner of this world, in prose that is exquisite, sensual, evocative, romantic, and luxurious. There is no one left to compare Koja to--I don't know another writer with her fearlessness, erudition, and perfect pitch. The effect is dazzling."
- Lewis Shiner, author of Slam and Deserted Cities of the Heart "Kathe Koja's creations are unlike those of any living writer. Her peers are Ovid and Petronius, Rimbaud and Wilde. Having sipped of the same ancient nectar as the children of Apollo, Koja deftly crafts a lusty, transcendent prose which impishly re-imagines the traditional antitheses of pleasure and pain, virtue and vice, spectacle and reality." - Adam Burgess, Roof Beam Reader "If Dickens had a penchant for opium and sodomy he might have given us a world as rich as The Mercury Waltz, but only Kathe Koja could wholly deliver these goods. This beguiling, complex, urban tale of rueful economies, of how the puppet strings of love and lust are forever entangled, is simply inimitable." - Tom Cardamone, author of Green Thumb and The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered |
THE CIPHER
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The Funhole returns. In a hole new format.
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Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and a Philip K. Dick Award finalist.
"An ethereal rollercoaster ride from start to finish." - The Detroit Free Press "Seldom has language been so visceral and so right ... Disturbing, unique, and unforgettable." - Locus "Kathe Koja is a poet ... [T]he kind that prefers to read in seedy bars instead of universities, but a poet." -The New York Review of Science Fiction "This powerful first novel is as thought-provoking as it is horrifying." -Publishers Weekly "The Cipher... combined intensely poetic language and lavish grotesqueries." - BoingBoing Named one of the Top Ten Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World by Storm by io9.com. |
SKIN
"A dark and frightening work by a major talent whose prose reads like a collaboration between Clive Barker and William S. Burroughs. Highly recommended." - Library Journal "[H]umorless novel about art punks in an unnamed present-day city...the novel, like the art of the characters it portrays, is a sustained exercise in style over substance." - Publishers Weekly "The language Koja employs is fresh and astonishing, harsh yet beautiful." -Washington Post Book World |
Tess welds metal. Bibi molds flesh. Together, they make art that moves,
dances, burns, and bleeds, and the Surgeons of the Demolition become the hottest ticket in town. But Bibi wants more, always more, no matter who gets hurt. And Tess needs to burn, no matter what. Thirty years ago, SKIN changed the landscape of dark fiction forever. And now the girls are back in town. "Unexpectedly poignant ... Sentences as sharp and to the point as a scrotal stud." - SPIN "[W]ill leave many fighting off its overload." - Kirkus Reviews "The biggest flaw in this novel is the writing. Koja often abandons grammar, sentence structure, and, as a result, clarity. Many of her incomplete sentences are simply unintelligible." - The Tech "Not an easy read, but perversely beautiful." - Vector |
