Product Description: Small Press newcomer, Paper Golem, embarks on an exciting, new annual series, a celebration of the novella, long touted as the "ideal length" in speculative fiction. Subtitled "A Distillation of Four Novellas," ALEMBICAL brings together four of the field's top authors, and gets out of their way! "Jay Lake's “America, Such as She Is” populates post-apocalyptic Oregon with beautifully written character studies...read more

Product Description: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Schoen is clearly in his element and there's a pleasant preposterousness to the whole thing, like a series of good-natured tall tales..." For years, Lawrence M. Schoen has been producing stories about the ever more popular Amazing Conroy and his companion, a buffalito named Reggie...read more

Product Description: Publishers Weekly: "Fans of old-fashioned SF will love this fast-paced, chaotic, and good-natured adventure full of semi-farcical humor and pleasantly believable aliens." Conroy has left Earth far behind and taken his hypnosis act beyond Human Space...read more

Product Description: "Makes for a fun read, especially given such a fantastic cast of characters." -BOOKLIST. "Only Lawrence Schoen could blend the Mayan eschaton, nightclub hypnotism, corporate elitism, radical environmentalism, and good old-fashioned slam-bang adventure fiction...read more

Product Description: Hugo-nominated Lawrence M. Schoen, long known for his light and humorous tales of science fiction, steps away from aliens and other worlds to explore the fantastic, giving a twist to some well-worn tropes, and conjuring up fresh surrealities of poetry and prose for your delight...read more

THE WIZARD OF MACATAWA AND OTHER STORIES is the third single-author collection published by Paper Golem and continues their mission of focusing attention on brilliant new writers, in this case award-winning author, Tom Doyle. Publishers Weekly called this collection as "riveting." Edited by Lawrence M. Schoen, this volume contains a mix of fantasy and science fiction short stories, twelve in all, including "While Ireland Holds These Graves" which earned Doyle a win with Writers of the Future. Richard Paul Russo, author of SHIP OF FOOLS, has said "Tom Doyle promises to be a unique voice and a trailblazer in Science Fiction as it moves into the future." Tom Doyle's short fiction has been described various as "intelligent & beautiful," "dizzying," and "intelligent and creepy stuff." This collection, his first, will hit you with a feral, magnetic intensity.