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A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers

10 best books like A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (Alyssa Wong): Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016, That Game We Played During the War, The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, Waiting on a Bright Moon, The City Born Great, Lullaby for a Lost World, These Deathless Bones, The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections, Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales

Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The May/June 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Seanan McGuire, Kat Howard, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, and Haralambi Markov, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Foz Meadows, Tanya DePass, Sarah Monette, and Stephanie Zvan, poetry by Beth Cato, M. Sereno, and...
That Game We Played During the War
AuthorCarrie Vaughn
ISBN0765389355
The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war for decades, but now peace has fallen, and Calla of Enith seeks to renew an unlikely friendship with Gaantish officer Valk over an even more unlikely game of chess, in Carrie Vaughn's novella That Game We Played...
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
AuthorJohn Chu
ISBN1466838116
In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional Chinese parents.

This...
Waiting on a Bright Moon
AuthorJ.Y. Yang
Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and its far-flung colonies— a role that is forced upon magically-gifted women “of a certain closeness”. When a dead body comes through her portal at a time of growing rebellion, Xin is drawn deep into a...
The City Born Great
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.

Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient...
Lullaby for a Lost World
AuthorAliette de Bodard
ISBN0765389819
Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up through the walls, feeding his power and continuing the cycle. As time passes and the ones she loved fade away, the house and the master remain, and she yearns ever more deeply for vengeance.

At the...
These Deathless Bones
AuthorCassandra Khaw
“I hate you.” I crouch in front of him. “You have no understanding as to how much. You charmed little prick.”

I have to say I agree with this statement when I read about the horrific little brat kid and all of the things the stepmother was telling us he did. He deserved to boil!



He...
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
AuthorTina Connolly
ISBN1250296994
Nebula nominee for best novelette in 2018! 4.5 stars for this excellent Tor fantasy story, free online here at Tor.com. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Saffron is one of the official food tasters for Duke Michal, the regent for an infant prince. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind...
Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue
AuthorWendy N. Wagner
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.

Funded as a stretch goal of our sister-magazine LIGHTSPEED's Queers Destroy Science...
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
AuthorDominik Parisien
An all-new anthology of cross-genre fairy tale retellings, featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.

Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start.

Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries....
Uncanny Magazine Issue 13: November/December 2016
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The November/December 2016 issue of the Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Paul Cornell, Brooke Bolander, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Bledsoe, Kat Howard, and Nalo Hopkinson, reprinted fiction by Amal El-Mohtar, essays by Alyssa Wong, Monica Valentinelli,...
The Art of Space Travel
AuthorNina Allan
ISBN0765390655
The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan is a science fiction novelette. In 2047, a first manned mission to Mars ended in tragedy. Thirty years later, a second expedition is preparing to launch. As housekeeper of the hotel where two of the astronauts will give their final press statements, Emily finds the...
Apex Magazine Issue 80
AuthorJason Sizemore
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

Extra large Customer Appreciation issue!

TABLE OF CONTENTS...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 115 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #115)
AuthorNeil Clarke
FICTION
“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
“Balin” by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu
“The Bridge of Dreams” by Gregory Feeley
“The Cedar Grid” by Sara Saab
“Old Friends” by Garth Nix
“Winter's Wife” by Elizabeth Hand

NON-FICTION
“Silver...
The Jewel and Her Lapidary
AuthorFran Wilde
ISBN0765389835
From Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft.

The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power...
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