IZANAMI'S CHOICE Available for Pre-Order

Izanami's Choice by Adam Heine releases in just two short weeks, an alternate history sci-fi novella and "spiritual successor to Bladerunner." Set in Meiji Era Japan, the author explores how Japan might grapple with AIs differently from how they're typically approached in Western sci-fi. Available for pre-order at Broken Eye Books, Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble.

This delightful book is samurai vs. robots! In 1901, the Meiji Restoration has abolished the old ways and ushered in a cybernetic revolution. Androids integrate into society at all levels, following their programming for the betterment of every citizen, as servants, bodyguards, and bureaucrats. Jinzou are the future. Japan is at the threshold of a new tomorrow! As a ronin steeped in the old ways, Itaru wants nothing more to do with the artificial creations posing as human. But when a jinzou is suspected of murder, he's pulled into a mystery that could tear the nation apart.

Can he and his machine-savvy daughter figure out how to work together? Malfunction or free will—when is a machine more than just a machine? 

Review: "Compelling," says Paul Constant of The Seattle Review of Books. It's a "ferocious little genre blender in book form: part Hammett novel, part Kurosawa Samurai epic, part Blade Runner, and entirely obsessed with keeping the reader’s eyes moving from one page to the next... Heine has tapped into a big one: the concept of free will, how it relates to one’s responsibility to the community, and whether we can ever really ascertain someone else’s individuality. The mystery of the book is engrossing and it’s resolved in a satisfying way." The full review is at The Seattle Review of Books.

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Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity is an anthology of near-future transhumanist sci-fi tales set in the Cthulhu Mythos from authors such as Desirina Boskovich, Lynda Rucker, Kaaron Warren, Damien Angelica Walters, Darrell Schweitzer, Cody Goodfellow, and Molly Tanzer. Available at Broken Eye Books, Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble.

Ghost in the Cogs: Steam-Powered Ghost Stories is an anthology of supernatural steampunk tales from authors such as Siobhan Carroll, Folly Blaine & Randy Henderson, Howard Andrew Jones, Nayad Monroe, Nick Mamatas, James Lowder, and Cat Hellisen. Available at Broken Eye Books, Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble.

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