Book View Café is an author-owned and operated publishing cooperative of New York Times bestselling authors and award winners, among them, the late Ursula K. Le Guin. Our authors write across all genres, from science fiction to […]
Excerpt: The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang
Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959―though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese immigrants, who finds the city unkind to outsiders and as dispirited as her own family. […]
Book View Cafe Readings: The Year’s Midnight by Rachel Neumeier as Read by Jennifer Stevenson
Book View Café is an author-owned and operated publishing cooperative of New York Times bestselling authors and award winners, among them, the late Ursula K. Le Guin. Our authors write across all genres, from science fiction to […]
Book View Cafe Readings: Never After by Marie Brennan
Book View Café is an author-owned and operated publishing cooperative of New York Times bestselling authors and award winners, among them, the late Ursula K. Le Guin. Our authors write across all genres, from science fiction to […]
Excerpt: The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
Part One There’s No Crime In Avalon How do I know so much about prisons? No, I wasn’t ever locked up—I mean, jail, sure, if you manage to live as long as I do without pissing off […]
Excerpt: The Doors at Midnight by R.R. Virdi
R.R. Virdi is a two-time Dragon Award finalist, Nebula Award finalist, and USA Today Bestselling author. He is the author of the urban fantasy series The Grave Report and The Books of Winter, as well […]
Excerpt: Ghostly Summons by John Andrew Karr
Ghostly Summons John Andrew Karr (Excerpt) “Beck said you might be willing to help me out.” Kelsen’s gaze shifted. “Thought the boss warned you about spreading nasty rumors, Nolan.” Frank might not approve of […]
Book View Cafe Readings: Midnight Never Came by Marie Brennan
Book View Café is an author-owned and operated publishing cooperative of New York Times bestselling authors and award winners, among them, the late Ursula K. Le Guin. Our authors write across all genres, from science fiction to […]
Book View Cafe Readings: A Deal in Her Pocket by Brenda Clough
Book View Café is an author-owned and operated publishing cooperative of New York Times bestselling authors and award winners, among them, the late Ursula K. Le Guin. Our authors write across all genres, from science fiction to […]
Book View Cafe Readings: Hounding the Moon by P. R. Frost
Book View Café is an author-owned and operated publishing cooperative of New York Times bestselling authors and award winners, among them, the late Ursula K. Le Guin. Our authors write across all genres, from science fiction to […]
Excerpt: Star Language by Charon Dunn
Star Language CHAPTER ONE Probably if I told you I was writing all this down in case any Earth humans survive into the future and want to know what happened you’d think I was being […]
Book View Cafe Readings: The Wicked Skill by Sherwood Smith
Book View Café is an author-owned and operated publishing cooperative of New York Times bestselling authors and award winners, among them, the late Ursula K. Le Guin. Our authors write across all genres, from science fiction to […]
Book View Cafe Readings: The Last Dog in England by Jill Zeller
Book View Café is an author-owned and operated publishing cooperative of New York Times bestselling authors and award winners, among them, the late Ursula K. Le Guin. Our authors write across all genres, from science fiction to […]
Book View Cafe Readings: A Stranger To Command by Sherwood Smith
Sherwood Smith reads from A Stranger to Command
Book View Cafe Readings: Echoes of War by Kristine Smith
A reading from the Sixth book in the Jani Kilian Chronicles by Kristine Smith. “Debts linger, waiting to be paid.”
Book View Cafe Readings: Get to Know the Book View Cafe with Irene Radford
A founding member of The Book View Cafe introduces us to the organization.
Excerpt: SIMUL by Andrew Caldecott
1 An Unwanted Message Every seat is taken at the long oval table. Cards, perfectly aligned on the green baize cloth, declare the ministerial post of each chair’s occupant. Outside, a yellowish mist clings to […]
Book View Cafe Readings: Phoenix Feather 1: Fledglings by Sherwood Smith
Twenty-five years ago a pair of lovers ran for their lives from an angry prince and washed up on an island where they adopted new identities — and found themselves blessed by an omen promising great things, a single golden phoenix feather. A reading by Sherwood Smith.
Excerpt: Bastion by Gustavo Bondoni
“Water,” Kine said. “Please… I need water.” It felt like his insides were on fire. People were moving around him. He could hear them but was too weak to open his eyes, and just waited […]
Book View Cafe Readings: Coed Demon Sluts: Amanda by Jennifer Stevenson
Today’s Book View Cafe reading features Jennifer Stevenson and a selection from Amanda, the latest in the author’s CoEd Demon Slut series.
Excerpt: Cry of Silence: a novel by Catherine Gigante-Brown
Prologue The moons of Alpha 49C shone brightly through the hatch. All seven of them were in slightly different phases. Jenn thought this was perhaps the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. The past […]
Book View Cafe Readings: Putting the Fun in Funeral by Diana Pharaoh Francis
Today’s Book View Cafe reading features Brenda W. Clough and a selection from The Jaguar Queen of Copal, the third book in The Thrilling Adventures of Marian Halcombe series.
Book View Cafe Readings: The Jaguar Queen of Copal by Brenda Clough
Today’s Book View Cafe reading features Brenda W. Clough and a selection from The Jaguar Queen of Copal, the third book in The Thrilling Adventures of Marian Halcombe series.
Book View Cafe Readings: Mark of the Gods by Kris Faryn & Jules Lynn
Today’s Book View Cafe reading features Kris Faryn & Jules Lynn’s and a selection from Mark of the Gods, Book One of their Muse Island mythological amateur sleuth series.
Book/Story Excerpt from Semper Britannia by Teel James Glenn
Teel James Glenn has killed hundreds and been killed more times–on stage and screen, as he has traveled the world for forty-plus years as a stuntman, swordmaster, storyteller, bodyguard, actor, and haunted house barker. He has […]
Book View Cafe Readings: Beth read by Jennifer Stevenson
Today’s Book View Cafe reading features Jennifer Stevenson and a selection from Beth, the latest in the author’s CoEd Demon Slut series.
Book Excerpt: Journey from the Center of the Earth by Ron Miller
Ron Miller is an illustrator and author living in South Boston, Virginia. He has created 71 books on astronomical, astronautical and science fiction subjects for adults and young adults. His books have received more than twenty commendations and awards, including the American Institute of Physics […]
Excerpt: The Amazing Editorials by Ted White
“But all too often novice writers seeking to emulate these men are ignoring or castigating “old-fashioned” sf as irrelevant or worse. These novice writers have fastened upon the superficialities of style in the so-called “New Wave,” and ignored its foundations.”
Book Excerpt: To Kill A Shadow by Katherine Quinn
BOOK EXCERPT: TO KILL A SHADOW by KATHERINE QUINN Excerpted from To Kill a Shadow, by Katherine Quinn. Entangled Teen, 2023. Reprinted with permission. Chapter Eight Jude I should never have picked her. I thundered […]
Book Excerpt: Fat Man by Gustavo Bondoni
Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer with over four hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. He is a member of Codex and a Full Member of SFWA. He has […]
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