Zagava Books will be publishing Another Green World, a collection of short fiction much expanded from the 2003 work with the same title, and containing several previously unpublished stories. The book will be available in two states, a narrow format paperback and a numbered hardcover. Another Green World goes to press in January 2025 and can be pre-ordered here :
https://zagava.de/shop/another-green-world
The working table of contents includes the following stories :
- From This Swamp (1,800 words)
- Book Becoming Power (2,200 words)
- Another Green World (800 words)
- The Polynesian History of the Kerguélen Islands (3,300 words)
- The Institute of Antarctic Archaeology & Protolinguistics (3,600 words)
- Appraisal at Edgewood (2,000 words)
- Hugh O’Neill’s Goose (3,800 words)
- Virtual Wisdom (900 words)
- Ten Bears (8,400 words)
- The Windhill Bequest (3,000 words, outtake from a longer work in progress)
- At the Sign of the Fanlight Window; or, H. P. Lovecraft, Bibliopole [with 2 black and white illustrations] [critical fiction] (900 words)
- Wulkderk; or, Not in Skeat (1,750 words)
- Extended Range; or, The Accession Label (2,000 words)
- The Secret Door; or, David Hartwell’s Library (1,000 words)
- The Tale of Brown Jenkin. A critical fiction (350 words)
- The Black Lands (350 words)
The Elfland Prepositions (unpublished) - Cleaning Up Elfland (2,250 words)
- The Barmaid From Elfland (2,250 words)
- Dry Cleaner To the Queen of Elfland (2,400 words)
- A Detective In Elfland (4,800 words)
Of the first edition, Guy Davenport wrote, “If you don’t believe in magic, read Henry Wessells and find out how wrong you are.”
Mark Valentine writes : “Henry Wessells delights in books and mysteries and writes with a zest for the arcane and a talent for the oblique and surprising.”
Zagava produce beautiful books and I am delighted to join the ranks of their authors.