Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodas are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Based on an imaginary world where time and reality bend in the most convincing and original way since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Eyre Affair is a delightful rabbit hole of a read: once you fall in you may never come back. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get...

Agatha and the truth of murder: "In 1926, with her writing in crisis and her personal life in tatters, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder"--Container. Agatha and the curse of Ishtar: "1928 [and] it has been two years since the sensation caused by her eleven-day disappearance and Agatha Christie arrives in Baghdad seeking culture and peace. What she finds is Max, an attractive young archaelogist with a bullet wound"--Container. Agatha...

In 1918, Graf von Dracula leads the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary in the War of the Great Powers, which is also a war between the living and the undead.

A stunning alternative history from Eisner-nominated creator Fumi Yoshinaga. In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful...

"The new government of Japan is determined to not only end the reign of the shoguns but erase any mention of the generations of women who once ruled the country. Try as they might to rewrite history, though, they cannot erase the memories of those who served in the Ōoku..."--Page [4] of cover.