Alston Moor

by Anne Charnock / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback, 252pp.
GoldSF series

Alston Moor is work of literary eco-fiction, interweaving contemporary and historical narratives to explore humanity’s relationship with landscape and the overwhelming anxieties faced in each era.

In an epic novel set on the Pennine Moors, Elizabeth abandons avalanche science to restore desolate peatlands, trekking in the footsteps of Isabel who, five centuries earlier, herds her cattle to remote summering grounds. They grapple with the overwhelming crises of their eras – by turn, the tumult of the Protestant Reformation and the ecological catastrophe of climate change.

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The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human

by M. Darusha Wehm / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback, 280pp.
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The Department Of What It (Really) Means To Be Human is an optimistic sci-fi novel set in post-capitalist, post-climate change Aotearoa New Zealand.

Investigator Em is tracking down Gen Ecks, a notable installation artist who’s fallen off the map. Gen is found under the influence of Moneta, a drug that lets users experience memories as if they were real. But the drug isn’t working as expected. Gen’s not just going down memory lane, she’s completely lost, unable to tell past from present. She may not be the only one.

Em must help Gen and expose Moneta’s dangers; the world cannot be truly changed until the past is faced head on.

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Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)

Schrödinger's Wife (and other possibilities)

by Pippa Goldschmidt
MIT Press / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback, 248pp.

The stories in Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities) travel through laboratories, observatories, rockets, hotel rooms, hospitals, out to the Antarctic and into outer space, following the trails of women scientists, technicians, patients, doctors and spouses in their encounters with some of the most extraordinary aspects of modern science.

The book cover plays on the infamous scientist Schrödinger and his many-words interpretation of quantum mechanics. His wife, the undervalued protagonist of the title story, imagines her own alternative lives.

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The Path of Most Resistance

Poems on Women in Science

by Jessy Randall
MIT Press / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback

Women have always worked in technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. Sometimes they made important discoveries and breakthroughs; sometimes they simply managed to exist and persist despite endless obstacles and a criminal lack of acknowledgment. Carefully researched, thoughtful, pitch perfect and precise, these poems about historical women scientists are hilarious and heart-breaking at the same time.

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The Headland

by Abi Curtis
MIT Press / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback, 248 pp.

A dual narrative set in Dungeness in the aftermath of the great storm of 1987 and the not-far future. Dolores develops an intimate emotional relationship with a creature she finds washed up in a piece of driftwood. Decades later Morgan tries to unravel the mysteries of his mother’s past, but to do so he must come to terms with his own origins. The Headland challenges ideas about love and grief, parenthood and belonging, and the very fabric of time.

The book cover evokes a unique sense of place, the weight of grief, the strike of a sudden life-changing event and the bonds of parenthood.

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The Mune

by Sue Dawes
MIT Press / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback, 336pp.

Thirty ‘surplus’ mothers from asylums, workhouses and the streets of Victorian England are shipwrecked on an island in an alternate universe. To survive, they must create a new society amid the lethal black sands and mysterious beasts. How will they shake off the patriarchal chains that
bound them and raise their children to be free? How will Betty, who longs to be back under the guidance of her master, survive, as the community evolves? And who is watching them?

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Maybe the Birds

by A.J. Ashworth / Goldsmiths Press
Paperback, 170pp.
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After the apocalypse destroys most life on Earth, a woman makes artificial bird voiceboxes to try and keep birdsong alive. A young female vampire uses her knowledge of mirrors to save her village from the creature who turned her. A woman haunted by her past feels that the robins she has always loved are no longer her friends.

Maybe the Birds is a collection of 14 speculative and realist short stories, that considers what happens when the world is no longer as it used to be – whether it be the postapocalyptic future, the paleolithic past or the dark north of the present. A. J. Ashworth’s second collection gives voice to women who are trying to survive in difficult circumstances and explores themes of love and loss, family and foe.

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