Dragonstairs Press

06/26/2024

A new video recording of the poetry Albert Hodkinson wrote about the war.

Albert Hodkinson, DFM, was a navigator in a Halifax bomber during world war II. Twenty years later, frustrated by a popular narrative of the war being fough...

06/26/2024

You should all wonder over to www.dragonstairs.com and check out the Dragonstairs checklist, everything Dragonstairs has published. Read it and weep.

The War with the Zylv Ariel Cinii was prominent in New York fannish circles as a filk singer, artist, apa-hack, and writer. She won a significant stake on the quiz show, the $10,000 Question, which she used to finance the medical treatment she needed as one of the first openly trans women in

06/15/2024

Ariel Cinii was prominent in New York fannish circles as a filk singer, artist, apa-hack, and writer. She won a significant stake on the quiz show, the $10,000 Question, which she used to finance the medical treatment she needed as one of the first openly trans women in science fiction.
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> When she passed away in 2020, she left behind over 1,300 works of visual art. Her friends and heirs very generously offered the works for free to her fellow fans. Michael Swanwick encountered her art at Boskone in 2024, and brought home three pieces that particularly spoke to him.
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> One of these pieces inspired Swanwick to write a story about it. The image is reproduced as the cover illustration for The War with the Zylv. Dragonstairs Press is deeply grateful to Ms. Cinni's estate for allowing it to be used.
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> The War with the Zylv is printed in an edition of 100, of which 96 are offered for sale. Each copy is 5½ x 8½ inches, hand stitched, numbered, and signed by the author.
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> They will be available at www.dragonstairs.com, on Saturday, June 22, 2024, at noon Philadelphia time.
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06/10/2024

The ChengDu Worldcon news doesn't get better.

In Search Of…The 2023 Hugo Awards       By Chris M. Barkley: On February 17, 2024, I received the following email: Feb 17, 2024, 4:25 AM Dear Hugo and Related Award Wi…

05/22/2024

. Look what came in the mail! The Sleep of Reason is my collaboration with Francisco de Goya , one original story by myself for each of ...

05/22/2024

You know you need a copy.

. Look what came in the mail! The Sleep of Reason is my collaboration with Francisco de Goya , one original story by myself for each of ...

05/15/2024

. The Best of Michael Swanwick Volume Two is a finalist for the Locus Awards in the Best Collection category! This is an honor worth cele...

05/15/2024

You KNOW you need some of these books!

. The Best of Michael Swanwick Volume Two is a finalist for the Locus Awards in the Best Collection category! This is an honor worth cele...

04/24/2024

It appears that today is both Anthony Trollope's birthday and Avram Davidson's birthday. Born 108 years apart.

04/16/2024

. Page 7: the Outer Circle: The far regions of the Prosperan System. All the most dangerou...

04/15/2024

. Set your alarm clocks! Marianne has announced the sell-date for Dragonstairs Press' latest chapbook. As usual, it will sell out in a matt...

04/12/2024

Today, Dragonstairs Press received the first ever fan mail! (Well, post card.) So kewl!

04/11/2024

. Depicting Mexico and Modernism: Gordo by Gus Arriola/Mexico Y El Modernismo: Gordo de Gus Arriola The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and ...

04/11/2024

This was so great!

. Depicting Mexico and Modernism: Gordo by Gus Arriola/Mexico Y El Modernismo: Gordo de Gus Arriola The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and ...

04/02/2024

Surely you need these!

. I remember, years ago in Chengdu, China, when Neil Gaiman showed Nancy Kress, Rob Sawyer, and me a thing called a Kindle Reader, which...

03/29/2024

. I am fresh back (or perhaps the phrase juste should be "exhausted back") (or was, when I first began this post, before a seemingly endles...

03/12/2024

Dragonstairs has been busy.

03/08/2024

The original idea to light Boathouse Row in the 1970s was to create an impressionistic view of the buildings that would reflect on the Schuylkill.

02/05/2024

Dragonstairs shipment heading out

01/25/2024

. To my great pleasure, Stations of the Tide is in print again! In a lot of ways, this is my strangest novel--solid science fiction that...

01/23/2024

10/04/2023

. : I'm in e-print again! My story, "Timothy: An Oral History" was inspired by science fiction positing all-female human societies such as...

10/04/2023

. CONTINUED TOMORROW And while you're here . . . If you were to sum up your life in a single sentence that could be written on a lea...