GENERATION LOSS

Generation Loss related Multimedia!

Download an exclusive mp3 of the first chapter of GL - read by Elizabeth Hand - HERE>> (37.5 Mb file)

Also as podcast - HERE>>

Lizhand interview on Youtube - HERE>>

Some reviews of GL:

• Booklist starred review. HERE>>
• Publisher's Weekly starred review. HERE>>
• Working Waterfront. HERE>>
• Boston Globe. HERE>>
• Bostonist. HERE>>
• Techgnosis. HERE>>
• Blogcritics. HERE>>
• Washington City Paper. HERE>>
• Washington Post review by Graham Joyce. HERE>>
• Time Out Chicago review. HERE>>
• And Jacob McMurray on the genesis of the Generation Loss cover. HERE>>
• Read the first chapter at Small Beer Press. HERE>>
• Locus review by Nick Gevers. HERE>>
• Bookslut review. HERE>>
• Valley Advocate review. HERE>>

Read Nicholas Rombes, author of Continuum's 33 1/3 volume THE RAMONES and NEW PUNK CINEMA, on Generation Loss in his blog, Digital Poetics.

"Brilliantly written and completely original, Hand’s novel is an achievement with a capital A.” -- Booklist (Starred Review)

"Take a weird trip into a deep pit of moral decay!" -- Cleveland.com

"Hand's terse but transporting prose keeps the reader turning pages until Neary's gritty charm does, finally, shine through." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Generation Loss" has been rightly compared with the sort of crime fiction turned out by the late, great Patricia Highsmith ... Hand expertly ratchets up the suspense until it's at the level of a high-pitched scream near novel's end." -- Journal Sentinel

“Intense and atmospheric, Generation Loss is an inventive brew of postpunk attitude and dark mystery. Elizabeth Hand writes with craftsmanship and passion.” -- George Pelecanos

"A lucid and beautifully rendered tale of an aging and damaged punk photographer's journey from the safety of the streets of New York into the wilds of Maine. Great, unforgiving wilderness, a vanished teenager, an excellent villain, and an obsession with art that shades into death: what else do you need? An excellent book." -- Brian Evenson

"Cass Neary, the battle-scarred shutterbug of Elizabeth Hand's incendiary literary thriller "Generation Loss" ... is a marvel, someone with whom we take the difficult journey toward delayed adulthood, wishing her encouragement despite grave odds." -- Los Angeles Times

Cass Neary made her name in the 1970s as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and hangers on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, got her into art galleries and a book deal. But thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out. Then an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Downeast, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and into one final shot at redemption.

GENERATION LOSS will be coming out in April 2007 from Small Beer Press, with Harcourt's trade edition available next year. Preorder your copy from Amazon.

Read an excerpt from Generation Loss here.

ILLYRIA

"Elizabeth Hand's heartbreaking, 120-page short novel Illyria, a sublime elegy for the 1970s, taboo love, loss of innocence, and the transcendent power of art. I've read a lot of great books in recent years, but few of them feel as personal, natural, and necessary as Illyria ... stands not only as one of my favorite works of the year, but of the decade."
-- Kelly Shaw's Book & Movie Forum, full review. HERE>>

New review from Mumpsimus guest reviewer Craig Lawrance Gidney. HERE>>

Obsessive love between two young cousins in a once-great New York theatrical clan, set against the backdrop of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and the ruins of their family's Hudson Valley compound.

The multiple award-winning PS Publishing edition of the new novella ILLYRIA is now available. PS will be treating this as one of their normal novellas. There'll be 500 unsigned trade hardcovers (priced at $18/£10) and 300 dust-jacketed signed hardcovers (priced at $45/£25). Of these, copies will be sent out free of charge to all subscribers to PS's Postscripts magazine, recipient of this year's International Horror Guild Award for Best Periodical.

You can buy ILLYRIA direct from PS by logging onto http://www.pspublishing.co.uk Or, better still, nab yourself a free copy by subscribing to Postscripts, which, according to Gardner Dozois, is "the most promising new magazine of the 21st Century."

SAFFRON & BRIMSTONE

Reviews:
Kirkus Review -- Locus -- Library Journal -- Green Man Review -- Fantasy Magazine -- Reading the Leaves

"Enthusiasts for Hand's sensuously descriptive brand of literary fantasy are in for a treat with her latest collection of short fiction. Aptly subtitled "strange stories," the eight superbly crafted tales share Hand's predilection for probing the translucent borderline between magic and reality. A young lepidopterist spends a summer volunteering at London's Regent's Park Zoo and discovers a talent for transforming her lovers into rare butterfly specimens. The tattoo-artist daughter of a children's book writer finds a tarot deck once owned by a colleague of her famous mother and watches her destiny become inexplicably intertwined with the cards. In a separate section entitled "The Lost Domain," Hand offers four contemplative tales about transient relationships that she links by using poignant, recurring themes: the fragility of intimacy, the insidious unraveling of civilization following 9/11, the influence of Greek myth on modern love. Her beautifully nuanced, often disquieting style should inspire poets as well as lay down the gauntlet to colleagues also reaching for expressive heights in contemporary fantasy." -- Booklist

SAFFRON AND BRIMSTONE includes three stores from the World Fantasy Award-winning collection BIBLIOMANCY (CHIP CROCKETT'S CHRISMAS CAROL is available, published separately by London's Beccon Press), in addition to more recently published fiction. It will feature work original to the collection, as well as the first appearance of the story suite "The Lost Domain," four takes on my muse which have appeared in various publications but were written to be read in sequence.

ECHO WINS NEBULA!

The story "Echo", which appears in Saffron & Brimstone, has won the Nebula Award. It first appeared in FSF Magazine. The complete Preliminary Nebula Ballot list can be found here.

You can also read the story "Echo" here.

PANDORA'S BRIDE

After Dr. Frankenstein's and Dr. Pretorious's prized creation survives the conflagration that was meant to destroy her, she seeks vengeance and wreaks havoc on a Fury's tour through the erotic and criminal underworld of Weimar Berlin.

WONDERWALL

More on Wonderwall soon!