All the Hidden Places

“All the Hidden Places is, in a word, spectacular. Turnbull spins aching, vibrant connections between his characters and their families, their communities, their monsters, and their gods. Each story is constructed with reverence and precision; together, they are facets of an astonishing universe. Turnbull is a Grandmaster in the making.”

Emma Osborne, author of Grief Eater

“Any excuse to get lost in Cadwell Turnbull’s words is a cause for celebration, but a collection of his short stories is a feast. His stories burrow under your skin, alive with both historical memory and current events. His characters navigate a landscape that have been broken in all-too-familiar ways. Asking what it means to survive an unraveling of life while trying to make sense of it. And yet there is a persistent, unsentimental compassion to his work. Luminous, strange, and deeply human, now is your excuse to get lost in Cadwell Turnbull’s worlds.”

Maurice Broaddus, librarian, community organizer, and author of the Astra Black trilogy

“Whether it’s within our own world, or some landscape beyond our imagining, Cadwell Turnbull renders in precise prose what it means to be human: how we love, fear, and try to be. These stories serve as both a mirror and a guide, at times terrifying in their clarity, but always moving and enjoyable to read.”

Isabel Yap, author of Never Have I Ever: Stories

“Here is a collection of marvels—tales of horror, politics (but I repeat myself), loss, and creation—artfully constructed and beautifully told. Turnbull’s voice is unique and unforgettable, fantastic and fantastical.”

Karen Joy Fowler, Nebula and World Fantasy Award–winning author of Booth

“Among the most hidden of the hidden places revealed in Cadwell Turnbull’s stories is the human heart. In ‘The Letters Tryptych’—three stories, each from the point of view of one of three siblings in the dystopian future US that we seem to be headed for—we see how the technological affects the social which affects the political which affects the personal. The resulting chain of action and reaction, tragedy and hope, shows how speculative fiction can present a true picture of actual people in the actual world. ‘A promise is a sandcastle; time, a tide.’”

John Kessel, Nebula Award–winning author of The Moon and the Other and Pride and Prometheus

“Turnbull’s stories are all written in magnificent detail and emotional prose; this is a must-add to all speculative fiction shelves.”

Library Journal (starred review)

“Turnbull’s tales, inspired by the real-world landscape and community of St. Thomas, showcase an optimism for what AI could be and do, and a love for complicated characters who deal with tough choices, grief, and big world changes in their own ways.”

Booklist

“Cadwell Turnbull is a true cosmic cartographer. Charting worlds unknown with an empathic eye, Turnbull maps hearts human, monstrous, and godly, illustrating through evocative, beautiful fiction that the boundaries between the three are thinner than we think. Unfurl this map, and get ready to discover his uncanny and excellent hidden places.”

Martin Cahill, USA Today bestselling author of Audition for the Fox

“One of the things I admire most about Cadwell Turnbull’s writing is the way he holds a theme up to the light. He’s not afraid to examine big topics—mortality and immortality, souls, time, gods and creation—but always allows the reader to view them through the lens of character. His stories are populated with people who stay and people who go, with survivors, with monsters and mages, all of whom themselves ask those same hard questions. These are rich stories that resonate long past their reading.”

Sarah Pinsker, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea and Lost Places

“As his novels do, the stories in Turnbull’s first collection use big ideas in speculative fiction to examine intimate relationships…Rich and strange, while going straight to the heart.”

Kirkus Reviews (starred review)