Small Beer Press has just signed two new books for simultaneous hardcover and trade paperback publication next year. John Kessel’s The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories is scheduled for publication in April, and Benjamin Rosenbaum’s as-yet-untitled short fiction collection will be coming out in August.
Kessel’s book will be his first collection since 1997. It is, according to the publisher, “a literary collection of astonishing stories from an award-winning science-fiction writer and satirist whose stories intersect imaginatively with the worlds and characters of Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find.’ Includes Kessel’s modern classic four-story sequence about life on the moon.”
The 300-page book will be available in hardcover (ISBN: 9781931520515) for $24 or trade paperback (ISBN: 9781931520508) for $16.
Rosenbaum’s book will be his debut colletion, spanning “the weirdest corners of literature and science fiction, exploring family, loyalty, and memory. A dazzling, post-modern collection ofpulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron’s zeppelin against assassins and pirates, a man’s wife becomes hundreds of gumballs, an emancipated collective of children go house hunting. Benjamin Rosenbaum grew up in Arlington, Virginia, and received degrees in computer science and religious studies from Brown University. He lives in Basel, Switzerland, with his family.”
The 272-page book will be available in hardcover (ISBN: 9781931520522) for $24 or trade paperback (ISBN: 9781931520539) for $16.