Permeable Press

Permeable Press was a San Francisco-based literary publishing company founded in 1990 by Brian Charles Clark. A "micropress" operating on less than U.S.$100,000 per year, Permeable published a number of trade paperback books, chapbooks, and the literary magazines Puck, Shock Waves, Q-Zine, Naked Review, and Xerotic Ephemera in the early and mid-1990s. Clark sold Permeable Press to Cambrian Publications in 1997.

List of books published

 * Shaman by Hugh Fox (1993)
 * The Naughty Yard by Michael Hemmingson (1994) ISBN 1-882633-02-4 reprinted in The Mammoth Book of International Erotica (Carroll & Graf, 1996) ISBN 0-7867-0373-3
 * Tonguing the Zeitgeist by Lance Olsen (1994; finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award) ISBN 1-882633-04-0
 * Cher Wolfe & Other Stories by Mary Leary (1994)
 * Once by Hugh Fox (1995)
 * The Final Dream & Other Fictions by Daniel Pearlman (1995)
 * Some Girls by Sarah Hafner (1995)
 * Reasons For Not Sleeping by Michelle Ben-Hur (1995)
 * At The News of Your Death by Joshua Beckman (1995)
 * A Beginner's Guide to Art Deconstruction by Norman Conquest (1995)
 * Crack Hotel by Michael Hemmingson (1995)
 * Three-Hand Jax and Other Spells by Staszek (pen name of Stan Henry; 1996; finalist for the Lambda Literary Award)
 * Stairway to the Sun by Hugh Fox (1996)
 * The Larger Earth: Descending Notes of a Grounded Astronaut by David Memmott (1996)
 * Objects Left Too Long In One Place by Catherine Scherer (1996)
 * The Marquis de Sade's Elements of Style by Derek Pell (1996)
 * Time Famine by Lance Olsen (1996)
 * Toxic Shock Syndrome by Carolina Vegas Starr (1996)
 * Flyscraper: Day of the Fly by Mark Romyn (1996)
 * The Uncertainty Principle by Steven J. Frank (1997; winner of the Pocket Rocket Award for First Novel)
 * Flying Saucers Over Hennepin by Peter Gelman (1997)
 * Remote Control by Doug Henderson (1997)
 * Minstrels by Michael Hemmingson (1997)
 * Manson Family Picnic by R. Downey (1997)
 * Ciphers by Paul Di Filippo (1997; co-published with Cambrian Publications)
 * Scratch: Four Stories by Nikki Dillon (pen name of Lisa Dierbeck; 1997)
 * Shock Waves contributors included Thom Metzger and Paul Di Filippo.