Skip to content
Answering Your Questions About Reactor: Right here.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter. Everything in one handy email.
When one looks in the box, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the cat.

Reactor

Blog publishing news

Subterreanean Press Announces New Connie Willis Novella

By

Published on August 3, 2020

Image: Subterranean Press
Image: Subterranean Press

Subterranean Press has announced a new novella from science fiction Grandmaster Connie Willis: Take a Look at the Five and Ten.

The novella will be released in November with art by Jon Foster. The story is about a woman named Ori who is dreading the upcoming Christmas holidays with her annoying and condescending family. But a new member of the family, Lassiter, realizes that their grandmother’s ramblings might have a bigger story behind them, they run an experiment to try and uncover more of her past.

Here’s the full description:

Ori’s holidays are an endless series of elaborately awful meals cooked by her one-time stepfather Dave’s latest bride. Attended by a loose assemblage of family, Ori particularly dreads Grandma Elving—grandmother of Dave’s fourth wife—and her rhapsodizing about the Christmas she worked at Woolworth’s in the 1950s. And, of course, she hates being condescended to by beautiful, popular Sloane and her latest handsome pre-med or pre-law boyfriend.

But this Christmas is different. Sloane’s latest catch Lassiter is extremely interested in Grandma Elving’s boringly detailed memories of that seasonal job, seeing in them the hallmarks of a TFBM, or traumatic flashbulb memory. With Ori’s assistance, he begins to use the older woman in an experiment—one she eagerly agrees to. As Ori and Lassiter spend more time together, Ori’s feelings for him grow alongside the elusive mystery of Grandma’s past.

The book will be part of a limited, 1500-number run, and will cost $40. It’s available to preorder now.

About the Author

About Author Mobile

Andrew Liptak

Author

Learn More About Andrew
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
6 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments