Liffey Books
New fiction from the outer limits
Names Deleted from the Prophets Registry
Brian Collins
It’s one year before the largest invasion of Israel in 75 years and an interstellar visitor arrives with a mind-bending recipe for a very different destiny. The kaleidoscopic NAMES DELETED conjures an alternate future out of the fractured present.
Camille in the Late Light
Olga Przybyszewski
Piotr Danzig is an émigré painter of middling ability and rusticating in the Normandy countryside. When he visits the nearby town one day, a young woman he meets asks him to make a portrait of her.
The Dream House
Juliette Gautier
The Marchand family travels one summer for vacation in the Swiss Alps, but the house they have rented is a little more than they bargained for. Their first night there all of them begin having the same dream—different versions of the same dream.
Stepsister
Sheena Colgan
Dilthey Cook is taken in by her aunt when her mother is killed by lightening, but she takes her place as the oldest of the children there. When her aunt proves a feckless parent, Dilthey has to figure out what role she wants to play.
Hypnerotomachia
Thomas Mackey
Yorky Thomas steals rare books, but one of his heists yields a volume from the earliest years of printing and the story it tells leads him to some very strange places.
The Rath
Brian Collins
What if we suffer things from before we were born? A father writes to console his heartsick daughter with a wild tale about sadness like that. “It's half of what ails us,” he tells her, “someone else's grief.” The Rath is a magical tale about one family's love and suffering during the Great Irish Famine.
The Italian Novel
Brian Collins
Italian astronomer Paolo Donati makes two troubling discoveries in November of 2032—his lover is seeing someone named M at the Biblioteca Nationale and there is another earth-sized planet orbiting the sun.
Spoonbait
Chauncey Tukworth
Whitey Smith takes a summer job at a Franciscan friary to help the brothers with some renovations. Over the course of the season, he enjoys an improbable friendship with one of them, someone with a risky secret.
Ex Post Juju
Toni Brown
It’s 1966 in Oakland and Tanisha Elderberry has just graduated from the African Peoples Magic Law School. Her unusual acumen becomes especially valuable when the soul group she sings in runs afoul of the authorities.