Northhampton, MA: Peapod Classics/Small Beer Press, (2004). The first novel by this innovative and unconventional author, described as "a feminist Animal Farm," in which women turn into animals and animals into women. When a wife and mother begins to metamorphose into a rather unpleasant snapping turtle, the family dog, Pooch, a devoted Golden Retriever, takes over more of the household responsibilities as she gradually changes into an attractive young woman. Emshwiller won many awards as a writer including the 2005 World Fantasy Award for life achievement. Small almost square format. 148 pp. ISBN: 1-931520089.

San Francisco: Mercury House, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this innovative and unconventional author, described as "a feminist Animal Farm," in which women turn into animals and animals into women. When a wife and mother begins to metamorphose into a rather unpleasant snapping turtle, the family dog, Pooch, a devoted Golden Retriever, takes over more of the household responsibilities as she gradually changes into an attractive young woman. Emshwiller won many awards as a writer including the 2005 World Fantasy Award for life achievement. 161 pp. ISBN: 0-916515702.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994). First edition - The first novel (preceded by books of short stories) by this award-winning Russian fabulist, the story of a young man who has dreamed of space flight since he was a boy, who enrolls as a cosmonaut, a devasting satire of the Soviet space program. George Saunders comments that "Pelevin is a brilliant satirist of things Soviet, but also of things human, our petty squabbles, haff-assed inventions and, above all, our corruptible dreams." Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. 139 pp.

New York: New Directions, (1998). Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this award-winning "dark-comic Russian fabulist." One review commented that his work "may be grounded in the grubby realities of contemporary Russia, but the food shortages, decaying apartment blocks, and political chaos serve him as a kind of naturalistic springboard from which he launches into one antic leap after another." Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-811213943.