David D Levine Books in Order

Fifteen science fiction and fantasy stories travel through cartoon worlds, an imagined ancient China and distant reaches of the universe. Their characters confront transformations and unfamiliar societies, connecting speculative possibilities with questions about identity, feeling and human experience.

Chaz Eades joins a one way mission to an alien solar system, then learns that contact with Earth has vanished. His commander’s priorities and the crew’s hostility conceal a larger secret, turning scientific exploration into a struggle for survival.

Old friends reunite in Earth orbit for the annual gathering of a gravity hacking club. Shared memories, past disputes, and years of changing relationships complicate a celebration built around their unusual experiments and enduring connections.

After his brother dies in a steel factory accident in 1937, Tony Collina faces pressure to challenge the owners. Supporting his family pulls him one way, while union solidarity and his brother's memory pull another.

Charlie, a purple giraffe living in a comic strip, becomes convinced that someone is watching him. His friends refuse to believe him, leaving him to confront unsettling questions about his world and his own existence.

In an imagined ancient China, a young priestess must defend her village against a powerful army. A tiny magical charm offers her a means to resist, but using it demands courage against an overwhelming threat.

A champion unicorn rider faces a threat to the virginity on which her career depends. Pressure from her domineering mother makes her struggle with desire and fear as personal choices collide with the demands of competition.

After his parents die, a man returns to his Midwestern hometown and begins losing his grip on reality. The prairie horizon unsettles him, turning familiar surroundings into a disturbing landscape where grief and fear intertwine.

A son reconnects with his estranged father after twenty years apart, just as the older man prepares for surgery to become a dog. Their reunion forces them to confront the distance and hurt between them.

Theophile Nundaemon encounters his former lover on the opposing side of a magical war fought among airships and floating cities. Their past attachment complicates a battle governed by military obligations and feelings neither can simply disregard.

Searching a junkyard for artistic inspiration, Phil discovers a form of magic unlike anything he expected. The objects he finds offer more than a creative spark, drawing him into questions about wonder and unexpected possibilities.

Surgically enhanced soldier Clark Thatcher carries an Army secret weapon within his body. When he decides to break away, a chase through a dystopian America forces him to confront the price of escaping his former masters.

A sixteen-year-old girl discovers hostile faeries while her mother is dying of leukemia. Without the support she needs at home, she must investigate the creatures herself and work out how to escape their dangerous presence.

Mechanical storyteller Nerissa Zeebnen-Feersig and gambler Denali Eu embark on journeys shaped by love, pain, and secrets. Their intersecting lives form a tale in which an artificial body and a concealed past complicate human connections.

Walker travels to an alien world to sell software but struggles with its language and customs. As his resources dwindle, surviving his business trip requires him to reconsider what matters more than making a sale.

Humanity's distant descendants struggle to survive as the universe loses its energy. An ancient human survivor helps them reconnect with their origins, linking the struggle to keep living with the need to remember their past.

A former magician's apprentice returns to help a village suffering under a curse that disrupts its weather. With incomplete training, he must unravel the workings of an old spell before the community's troubles can be resolved.

A fighter spacecraft has an inner life amid the pressures of war. As desperate circumstances demand desperate measures, the story examines how combat changes a participant’s sense of self and the uncertain distance between what it was and what it may become.

Raised on Mars but taken to London, Arabella Ashby learns that her brother faces a deadly threat to their inheritance. Disguising herself as a boy, she joins an interplanetary airship, confronting privateers and mutiny while racing to protect him.

Arabella learns that her fiance, Captain Prakash Singh, has been captured on Venus by Napoleon's forces. She arranges passage with a privateer to rescue him, only to face imprisonment herself and a military threat requiring ingenuity and uneasy cooperation.

Celebrated in England, Arabella Ashby and Captain Singh receive an invitation from the Prince of Wales. His proposed mission to bring Mars under British control forces Arabella to weigh loyalty to her husband against the home she loves.

Ten years after a disastrous heist scattered the Cannibal Club, their former leader’s son tries to reunite the surviving criminals. Rescuing his captive father requires new thefts, old skills and cooperation among people still carrying grievances from their last job.