Acquisition: 2 reissues and 1 original novel to complete trilogy from fantasy legend Greer Gilman
Lanternfish Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of Greer Gilman’s Cloudish Triptych, which will include the reissue of Moonwise and Cloud & Ashes and the original publication of the new novel Lightwards. Publication of the triptych will begin in the Spring-Summer 2027 season.
Greer Gilman’s Cloud Triptych is a literary fantasy unlike any other. Called by Diana Wynne Jones “a work of genius,” Gilman’s sequence weaves poetry, fantasy, and the bones of language itself into a story that defies all categorization. The series has garnered praise from such giants of the field as John Crowley, Kelly Link, Michael Swanwick, John Clute, Sofia Samatar, Catherynne Valente, Theodora Goss and many others.
The first Cloudish novel, Moonwise, follows two friends who tumble from Earth into the realm of Cloud, a world pulled straight out of a folk ballad, and help the denizens to end the eternal winter imposed by one of Cloud’s twin goddesses. Originally published in 1991, it won the Crawford award and was shortlisted for the Tiptree (now Otherwise) and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards. Lanternfish Press will reissue Moonwise in trade paperback in April 2027.
Cloud & Ashes (2006), second in the series, follows a young girl, the demi-mortal daughter of a goddess, who seeks to overthrow the deities of Cloud altogether in favor of a world ruled by science and by mortal will. This mosaic novel combines the Nebula-finalist story “Jack Daw’s Pack,” the World Fantasy Award-winning story “A Crowd of Bone,” and “Unleaving,” exclusive to Cloud & Ashes. Lanternfish Press will reissue Cloud & Ashes in July 2027.
The third Cloudish novel, Lightwards, will debut in March 2028. In this final novel of the trilogy, the residents of Cloud must grapple with the disappearance of magic from their world, for good and ill.
Greer Gilman’s mythic fantasies are Moonwise and Cloud & Ashes. Lightwards will complete the Cloudish triptych. Her Ben Jonson mysteries, set in the theatre world of 1600s London, are Cry Murder! In a Small Voice and Exit, Pursued by a Bear. She has written on the languages of the fantastic, on archetypes of girls in fantasy, and on Sylvia Townsend Warner. Her fiction has won the Otherwise (Tiptree), World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Crawford awards, and has been shortlisted for the Nebula and Mythopoeic Fantasy awards. Her works have been cited in the OED. A graduate of Wellesley College and the University of Cambridge, and for many years a librarian at Harvard, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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