In late-twenty-first-century San Francisco, where compassion is outlawed, the daughter of an artificial intelligence corporation leader tries to save her adopted son, an African boy suffering mental effects from a pandemic

Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick's twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless killer who protects her, a wolf who is willingly ensnared by a devious academic, a businessman resurrected to play at politics, and an ingenious mouse dreaming...

Two women who have been friends since they were children-one a recovering alcoholic brought up by parents who believe they're alien abductees, the other an orphan with an eating disorder-contend with a secret that might doom their friendship, in Susan Palwick's Tor.com Original short story, Recoveries.

Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness -with bravery and compassion -for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones. Emma is twelve, a perfectly normal girl, in a perfectly normal home. With a perfectly normal father...who...