The fiction imprint of F-flat Books.
A small, independent press in Philadelphia, PA for novels that live in the space between knowing and living.
Why “Locrian”?
In music, the Locrian is the seventh mode — the only one built on a diminished fifth, the most unstable of them all, forever leaning toward a resolution it never quite reaches.
It seemed exactly right for a fiction imprint. We publish books that hold their tension; that are at home in ambiguity; that ask more than they answer. Books that, like the mode they’re named for, resolve on their own terms — or refuse to.
What we publish
The novel of ideas that still keeps you turning pages.
Locrian Books publishes literary, philosophical, and speculative fiction — stories curious about mathematics and art, memory and choice, free will and the fragile lives lived under it. We favor the book that doesn’t fit a single shelf.
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Ideas, embodied
Fiction that thinks — grounded in characters you believe and prose you want to live in.
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Across the shelves
Literary, philosophical, speculative. We follow the story wherever it leads, past any single genre.
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Made with care
A small list, closely edited and beautifully made — books built to be kept.
The list · Debut title
A Free Will Manifold
a novel by David Allen
A Borgesian novel about a mathematician who finds a library containing the complete record of his life. “A beguiling tale of people trying to edit their lives…” — Kirkus Reviews.
An imprint of F-flat Books Our list is small and growing. For rights, press, or submissions inquiries, write to [email protected].