The trouble with running a bookstore is that you are tempted by far more books than you can possibly read. Today is a case in point. I have just added two new books to the store, and I want to read them both.

First up is ODD?, the first volume in a new series of anthologies from Ann & Jeff VanderMeer. Is this weird fiction, or is it just odd? Who cares, when you have a list of contributors like this: Jeff Ford, Michael Cisco, Nalo Hopkinson, Hiromi Goto, Rikki Ducornet, Leena Krohn, Caitlin R. Kiernan and many more. Also very temping from my point of view is that the Krohn is by no means the only translated story in the book. There are a whole bunch of people whose work will be very new to you. Excited? Check it out (including the cool video trailer that Jeff has had made for it – linked to from the store).

The other new book is our second offering in the Twelve Planets series of Australian short collections from Twelfth Planet Press. This time we have Thief of Lives by Lucy Sussex. I have written enthusiastically about Lucy’s work before (for example here), but she has not been published much outside of Australia. Now, by the magic of ebooks, I’m able to bring you a sample of her work that you can get easily and cheaply. How good is Lucy? Let’s just say that none other than Karen Joy Fowler contributed the introduction. It is rather cool too. Read it here.