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Cover Reveal: Cynthia Zhang’s After the Dragons

March 26, 2021 SMiddleton Leave a comment

Check out this post to see the cover of Cynthia Zhang’s debut novel, After the Dragons, and to learn more about the book. Pre-orders are now open!

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Advance Copy Giveaway Contest! (Now Closed)

March 12, 2021 SMiddleton Leave a comment

It’s time to give away some advance copies of Octavia Cade’s THE IMPOSSIBLE RESURRECTION OF GRIEF! Check out this post for information about how to enter this contest and win a print copy of Octavia Cade’s novella.

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Posted in: All, Events, Novella, Press News

Review: “The Rememberers” by Rachel Heng

February 27, 2021 SMiddleton Leave a comment

This post is the second in a series of short reviews about individual stories from McSweeney’s 58 Climate Fiction issue. The focus of this review is “The Rememberers” by Rachel Heng. Click to read the full review!

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February Newsletter

February 20, 2021 SMiddleton Leave a comment

Check out our February 2021 newsletter, the first of the year. It contains news about cover reveals, giveaways, forthcoming titles, and a 50% discount on 2020 ebooks.

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Posted in: Acquisitions, All, Environmental News, Press News, Reviews

Review: “The Good Plan” by Mikael Awake

February 8, 2021 SMiddleton Leave a comment

This review examines how Mikael Awake’s story in McSweeney’s 58, “The Good Plan,” reveals an experience of climate refugees. It is an exploration of memory and feelings of belonging and displacement and a study in displacement and reintegration, which gives the reader a taste of that experience.

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Announcement: Stelliform Acquires Dennis Mombauer’s THE HOUSE OF DROUGHT

January 26, 2021 SMiddleton Leave a comment

We’re delighted to announce Stelliform Press’ acquisition of the novella The House of Drought by Dennis Mombauer. Mombauer lives in…

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Posted in: Acquisitions, All, Novella, Press News

Cover Reveal and Preorder Announcement: Octavia Cade’s The Impossible Resurrection of Grief

January 18, 2021 SMiddleton Leave a comment

We are delighted to share the cover for Octavia Cade’s new novella, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief. The cover, by…

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Submission Stats 2020

December 19, 2020 SMiddleton Leave a comment

We’re taking a blog break for the remainder of 2020, and for our last blog post of the year, we thought some of you might be interested in our submissions statistics for the year. Read on for some submission stats broken down into genre, length, and submitter demographics.

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Stelliform 2020 Review Round-up

December 11, 2020 SMiddleton Leave a comment

Since we started the press in January, we’ve been working on populating the blog with reviews of our favourite science fiction, fantasy, and horror, focusing on environmental content. In this post we’re recapping all the reviews we posted in 2020, organized by date (earliest to latest) and type of review.

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Review: Reckoning 4

December 4, 2020 SMiddleton Leave a comment

Reckoning 4 is a collection of creative writing like a cry of grief for what we have already lost. But it is also comfort, retribution, and the re-creation of exquisite hybrid forms rarely before imagined. Read on for more about the stories we loved from Reckoning’s 2020 volume.

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Stelliform's Publisher and EIC is hosting an event Stelliform's Publisher and EIC is hosting an event at Hamilton's amazing literary festival, gritLIT!

What happens when our relationship with nature is distorted? Through their two novels and one collection of poetry, Amanda Leduc, Premee Mohamed, and Alessandra Naccarato examine this question, while blurring the lines of what’s real and what’s not.

Join them as they read from their books and engage in a timely discussion that’s more relevant now than ever. Tickets available at: https://loom.ly/jTgS1S8 or gritlit.ca

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We released two fantastic novellas in 2020 and if We released two fantastic novellas in 2020 and if you loved them we would love to have your vote on the Locus Awards ballot! 

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In Sept 2020 we released Sim Kern's debut, queer as hell, horror novella, DEPART, DEPART! Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review: “With high stakes and a solid emotional core ... Kern shows the necessity of compassion, empathy, and community in the face of crisis.”

A reminder of what this book has going on: When a hurricane destroys Houston, Noah—a Jewish trans man—shelters amongst other queer refugees and “capital-T” Texans. Crisis intensifies ghostly visions and Noah must decide if he’s willing to sacrifice his identity to survive.

In Oct 2020 we published Michael J. DeLuca's NIGHT ROLL, a surreal fantasy and Tam Lin retelling about a climate refugee rebuilding her life in Detroit. It got great reviews from PW and Locus and is a Finalist for the The IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award!

NIGHT ROLL is a beautiful story, rooted in a resurgent city. When her friend Virgil disappears, new mother Aileen tries to find him. On a surreal ride thru Detroit, Aileen faces the Elf, Detroit’s timeless rebel spirit, & is confronted by frightening & hopeful possibilities.

There are so many wonderful and important titles coming out every year and so voting for the Locus Awards is really hard! But we do hope you will consider these two novellas for recognition. Remember, anyone can vote! Thanks for reading!
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*A huge thank you to Netgalley, Octavia Cade and Stelliform press for an eARC of this novella in exchange for honest feedback*
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📖 The Impossible Resurrection of Grief - Octavia Cade
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📖 Publication Date : May 20, 2021
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I just finished this novella with absolute chills.
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Octavia Cade has crafted an amazing story here in just 82 pages. Grief as an insidious, physical manifestation would be terrifying enough. To add in a completely ravaged world, wrought with extinction really took it to the next level.
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This was not an easy story to read, but one that I feel people SHOULD read. It hits on the selfishness of humans, and how self-interest protects us from what we don’t want to see. In The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, people become infected with “Grief” when they can’t accept the loss of a species, an ecosystem, a creature. The main character, Ruby, is “lucky” to be enamored with jellyfish - which are thriving under the current climate crisis conditions. Meanwhile, the people around her who have loved and lost their favorite things are falling victim to Grief, sometimes with elaborate consequences.
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“We learn to protect ourselves in the ugliest of ways. Perhaps I should have asked, but sorrow is so terrifying.”
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“Grief wouldn’t allow any different. It was mourning down to the marrow, the inability to let go of what had been cut away.”
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I found this story to be downright terrifying at certain points and the race to the end left me with a growing, sinking feeling. Huge props to Octavia Cade for what she has done with this one!
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Hello booksta world! Today I finished #theimpossibleresurrectionofgrief by #octaviacade. This speculative dystopian eco-thriller is an eye opening read that everyone should be aware of.
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Due to species and ecosystem extinction from climate change, humans are faced with “the Grief,” a physiological illness of overwhelming guilt and remorse for the complacency and ignorance exhibited at preventing such devastation, resulting in mass suicide. It’s so common in this current world that healthcare professionals disregard diagnoses of it, due to the inevitability of humans success at ending their lives regardless.
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Ruby is a marine biologist who’s going through a divorce, and is doing all she can to avoid succumbing to the Grief herself and finding purpose to go on in such a dismal world. So much so that Ruby has dedicated the remainder of her hope to supporting jellyfish, who have managed to adapt to the rising ocean temperatures to survive, even as the Great Barrier Reef has turned to bleach and decay. Ruby’s friend Marjorie soon succumbs to the Grief, and the remainder of the novel portrays Ruby’s attempt at processing her friends decision to end her life, as she was unable to notice the signs of her impending demise.
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We are then led on a speculative journey with Ruby as she attempts to understand her purpose in the world and essentially what humans are fighting so hard to live for if everything around them is already dead. This is a vitally important read regarding the inevitability and severity of climate change and how it will impact our ecosystems and homes if we do not attempt to alter its course. Ruby’s thoughts hit close to home when she realizes her hope isn’t the same as other’s hope, and holding onto one aspect of life to find purpose to continue is futile if everything else is gone. It’s sad really- there’s no point in saying “well at least my life is good even though it’s not elsewhere” when you can’t even walk outside your home to birds or sunshine or greenery or own a pet anymore. As Majorie hauntingly states, “..it’s all dead but for the jellyfish.. it’s so lonely there,” (con’t
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