authors featured in the Big Sky Library
See also separate Asia-specific, general speculative fiction and non-fiction anthology listings, plus
Magazines & Webzines, Academic Journals & Fanzines, Non-fiction and Reviews.
Forthcoming new publications and translations...
Recent activity... since 1 June 2021
Bibliographies added: [ See earlier additions... ]
June 2021
Achmed Abdullah | Olivia Chadha | Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte | Richard Z. Chesnoff | Julie C. Dao | Osamu Dazai |
Kanakaambaram Emden | Doungjai Gam | Joan He | Hwang Sok-yong | S. F. Khan | Edward Klein | Urvashi Kuhad |
Robert Littell | Marjorie M. Liu | Isai Lukodyanov | Sangu Mandanna | Zoe Hana Mikuta | Misba | Shirshendhu Mukhopadhyay |
Sequoia Nagamatsu | Lena Nguyen | Axie Oh | Norman Erikson Pasaribu | Marija Sreš | June CL Tan | Swati Teerdhala |
Evgeny Voiskunsky | Taichi Yamada | Yan Ge
July 2021
Anthony Abbot | Nadia Afifi | Robert Asprin | Tanaz Bhathena | Gautam Bhatia | Chang Shi-Kuo | Terence Chua | Sunyi Dean |
Han Song | Hiromi Kawakami | Jamie Marina Lau | Claire Light | Sarah Lin | Eto Mori | Indra Soundar Rajan | Akshaya Raman |
Harry Roskolenko | Lucius Shepard | Peng Shepherd | George Takei | Sue Lynn Tan | Katie Tsang | Kevin Tsang | M. G. Vassanji
Asia-specific anthologies added: [ See earlier additions... ]
June 2021
Floating Clouds, Floating Dreams: Favorite Asian Folktales | Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic |
That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction
July 2021
General anthologies added: [ See earlier additions... ]
June 2021
An Alphabet of Embers: An Anthology of Unclassifiables | The Book of Dragons | Defying Doomsday |
Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories | Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders |
Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts | The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound |
Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices
July 2021
Non-fiction added: [ See earlier additions... ]
June 2021
Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials
July 2021
Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives and Representations
Reviews added: [ See a complete list of reviews... ]
The Great and Not-So-Secret Short Fiction Project... [ See earlier additions... ]
...to index all magazines, webzines, academic journals and fanzines that feature genre fiction (plus essays and interviews) either from Asian writers or others with interests in Asian speculative fiction.
Added 1 more issue of Mithila Review that features speculative fiction, poetry and an interview.
Added 2 issues of Chinese Literature Today that feature speculative fiction, essays and an interview.
Added 1 issue of Matrix that features a relevant essay.
Added 7 issues of Truancy that feature fiction, poetry and interviews.
Added the first issue of State of Matter that features fiction.
Current reading / audiobooks...
Familiar Things
2011
Novel
Scribe Publications
ISBN 978-1-911617-19-8
B-format paperback, 216 pages
Translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell
Christoph Rupprecht et al, eds.
Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures
2021
Anthology
World Weaver Press
No ISBN
Digital
The Eye
1930
Short fiction chapbook
Penguin
ISBN 978-0-1401-8482-2
B-format paperback, 87 pages
The Thirty Names of Night
2020
Novel
Atria Books
ISBN 978-1-9821-2149-5
Hardcover, 291 pages
The Crow Cycle #1
11 August 2021
Novel
Magic Dome Books
No ISBN
Digital
$3.99
Translated from the Russian by Mikhail Yagupov
The Bronzed Beasts
'The Gilded Wolves' series, #3
21 September 2021
Novel
Wednesday Books
ISBN 978-1-250-14460-7
Hardcover, 400 pages
$18.99
Vagabonds
2016
Novel
Simon & Schuster Audio
ISBN 978-1-7971-0777-6
Audiobook
Translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
Monkey Around
3 August 2021
Novel
Solaris
ISBN 978-1-78108-920-0
Trade paperback, 409 pages
$14.99
Clifftop Crisis & Transformation
'A Thousand Li' series
15 September 2021
Short fiction chapbook
Starlit Publishing
No ISBN
Digital
$2.99
Once More Upon a Time
5 October 2021
Novel
Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN 978-1-7282-3982-8
Hardcover, 144 pages
$12.99
The Annual Migration of Clouds
28 September 2021
Short fiction chapbook
ECW Press
ISBN 978-0-7352-6993-4
Trade paperback
$15.95
Iron Widow
21 September 2021
Novel
Penguin Teen
ISBN 978-0-7352-6993-4
Hardcover, 400 pages
$7.99
Last Gamer Standing
21 September 2021
Novel
Scholastic
ISBN 978-1-338-74150-6
Paperback, 288 pages
$7.99
The Big Sky Library is being developed on an ongoing basis as a directory of all speculative fiction available in English from and about Asia and the Asian diaspora. It is also a private library, currently based in Liverpool, England.
The library currently holds over 1,500 titles. While it functions as a private library, it is accessible for research purposes and enquiries are always welcome.
The Future Library
18 August 2021
Short fiction chapbook
Tor
ISBN 978-1-250-82867-5
Digital
$0.99
Susan Forest, Lucas K. Law, eds.
8 August 2021
Anthology
Laksa Media
ISBN 978-1-9881-4016-2
Hardcover, 362 pages
$28.00