2041: Twelve Short Stories About the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers
10 best books like 2041: Twelve Short Stories About the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers (Jane Yolen): Steampunk Prime: A Vintage Steampunk Reader, The Grounding of Group 6, Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s, George and Martha Back in Town, Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Tales from the Half-Continent, Sisters in Fantasy 2, Dragon Fantastic, The Fleet, Futures Imperfect: Three Short Novels
Steampunk Prime: A Vintage Steampunk Reader
| Author | Mike Ashley |
| ISBN | 1933065184 |
Discover original steampunk tales in this anthology of stories written before there were actual rocketships, atomic power, digital computers, or readily available electricity. The modern day steampunk genre is a reinventing of the past through the eyes of its inventors and adventures, but this...
YA was hardcore in 1983, yo. I bought my original copy of The Grounding of Group Six at Barnes and Noble in Boston when I was 10 – the huge one on Boylston that looked like a half-melted White House, and I’m not going to lie to you: I bought it because of the cover.
In fact, before I even get into the...
| Author | Pamela Sargent |
| ISBN | 0156000318 |
Based on one of the most popular SF anthologies of all time, which dispelled the notion that women don’t write “real” science fiction, this volume features stories by twenty-one seminal SF writers. Included are works by Leigh Brackett, C. L. Moore, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Judith Merril. Introduction...
| Author | James Marshall |
| ISBN | 0395479460 |
Oh my god, I just love George and Martha so much. Unfortunately, my library only had five of the seven books in this series, so this one is going to have to hold me over until I can find the other two elsewhere. Again, like I've been saying for my past reviews about the George and Martha books, James Marshall...
| Author | Al Sarrantonio |
| ISBN | 0451459776 |
Now, Sarrantonio presents another daring, all-new anthology showcasing some of the genre's biggest names and best newcomers. "Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy" sets the standard for fantasy in the twenty-first century. Fantasy as literature. Fantasy that reinvigorates and expands the field's...
| Author | D.M. Cornish |
| ISBN | 1742990258 |
Bunting Faukes has a debt and no way to repay it—times are tough for grave robbers. But a way out is presented in the person of Atticus Wells, a sleuth with strange eyes that see into everything.
Virtue Bland is alone in the world. Packed off to Brandenbrass to serve the household of her late father’s...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0451455037 |
Oh dear. The first Sisters in Fantasy was a pretty solid collection. This is not: it has a few stand outs and a few truly awful stories, and then a load of completely forgettable tales. The truly weird thing about this collection is that there were a number with no fantastical elements: Nancy Springer's...
| Author | Rosalind M. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0886775116 |
Each story included in this volume offers a new perspective on the legends of the dragons, the fiercest creatures in the annals of fantasy. Challenges and delights await readers in this all-original collection of imaginative dragon tales tales by such top talents as Alan Dean Foster, Mickey Zucker...
| Author | David Drake |
| ISBN | 0441240860 |
Premise: Anthology series in which authors (many well-known) write stories in a shared universe. The human-allied worlds are at war with the Khalia. We can’t understand each other, we don’t know for sure how it started, but The Fleet is the last line of defense against invasion and subjugation.
Ever...
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 1568651864 |
Three science fiction stories which are all love stories in the end. Connie Willis sprinkles all the stories with her brand of humor, and an in depth knowledge of whatever subject matter she has chosen for the basis of the tale. Quite good.
"Uncharted Territory" is about a group of planetary...
Since its first issue in March 1923, Weird Tales - "The Unique Magazine" - has provided countless readers with the most innovative and offbeat fantasy, suspense and horror stories. Almost every important writer of fantastic fiction in the first half of this century - including H.P. Lovecraft, Robert...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0312875576 |
Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of American SF writers, also wrote fantasy fiction throughout his long career, but especially in the early 1940s. The Golden Age of SF was also a time of revolution in fantasy fiction, and Heinlein was at the forefront. His fantasies were convincingly set in the real world,...
| Author | Margaret Weis |
| ISBN | 0061056308 |
Here be dragons--and elves, wizards, and unicorns and all the wonders of fantasy!
Here they are, collected in one indispensable volume--the most acclaimed stories of our time by the world-famous authors who have made fantasy the most exciting and popular genre in all literature.
Known...
| Author | Bruce Coville |
| ISBN | 1416903321 |
Brains are sizzling in the seventh grade... The first day of seventh grade is probably the worst day of Duncan Dougal's life. He knows that things are really bad when he finds an alien's hand in a Dumpster and then gets plugged into an alien brain fryer! Can Duncan find out which of the four new teachers in...
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories
| Author | Daniel Halpern |
| ISBN | 0140296387 |
Following the immense success of The Art of the Tale, Daniel Halpern has assembled the next generation of short-story writers—those born after 1937—to create a companion volume, The Art of the Story. Attesting to the depth, range, and continued popularity of short fiction, this collection includes...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0312144490 |
This superb anthology is as valuable for its detailed summations of horror and fantasy in 1995 (in literature and in comics, television, movies, etc.), as for the 35 stories and 9 poems. Also useful for its exploration of the crossover genre known as "dark fantasy." Noteworthy authors include Peter...
| Author | David G. Hartwell |
| ISBN | 1568650396 |
Note, Dec. 17, 2016: I edited this review just now to correct two misspelled words.
July 2, 2011
Hartwell is a respected anthologist in the field of speculative fiction, so when I got a good deal on this collection a couple of years ago, I grabbed it up. His objective here (set forth in his short...
Pregnant. Alone. And running for her lifeFormer navy SEAL Lucas Washington was an expert at tackling impossible missions. But when a striking - and very pregnant - woman turned up in a car he was repossessing, suddenly he was in over his head. Shaken and bruised, she couldn't remember what had happened...
| Author | Suzanne Strempek Shea |
| ISBN | 0743403770 |
In the latest novel from the award-winning author of Around Again, an American takes an unexpected trip to Ireland and finds the woman she was meant to become.
Newly unemployed, Sophie White has nothing better to do when her recently widowed best friend, Gina, invites her along on a much-needed,...
Immortality, but at what price, in what form, and how could you be you? In the near future it’s possible to build a new you, a better you, one that could carry on forever. But if you could carry on, if you could make choices about who you would be forever, how much of your past would you bring with you? Would...
