Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy
10 best books like Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy (Ellen Datlow): East of West, Vol. 2: We Are All One, The Forge of God, The Pride of Chanur, Eternity, Vacuum Flowers, Anvil of Stars, The Lost Worlds of 2001, The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome, Against the Fall of Night, The Amazing Screw-on Head and Other Curious Objects
East of West, Vol. 2: We Are All One
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 1607068559 |
How is East of West going? Good . . . I think!?!?
A few times I had no idea what was happening. A few pages later I was enthralled with the story. It is a wild ride between western lore and sci-fi mayhem. I think lots of people will really dig this series, as long as they are okay with losing touch...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0765301075 |
On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw, a geologist working in Death valley, finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area As more unexplained phenomena spring up...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0886772923 |
No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company -- a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -- and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/ captors the sadistic, treacherous...
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0446601888 |
I saw positive references to Eon, the first book in the series, in Brian Aldiss's Trillion Year Spree, and I bought it before a long flight. I think I had read most of it, or even all of it, before I arrived in California. It was pretty dull, but somehow I bought the second one too, and it was even duller. Chris...
| Author | Michael Swanwick |
| ISBN | 0441858767 |
Vacuum Flowers is a grand tour of the inhabited Solar System, set in a medium-term future. The book opens in Eros Kluster, one of many asteroid-based settlements that form the bulk of Human space, after all of humanity on Earth was absorbed into the Comprise, a world-wide AI- and net-mediated group-mind....
| Author | Greg Bear |
| ISBN | 0446364037 |
This direct sequel to The Forge of God is as far removed from its predecessor in tone and content as could possibly be. The concept of the 'Law' is fascinating, made more so by the enigmatic nature of the Benefactors. Many questions that are raised throughout the novel are left unanswered and the morality...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0839825099 |
The Lost Worlds of 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke was published in 1972 by Signet as an accompaniment to the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The book itself consists in part of behind-the-scenes notes from Clarke concerning scriptwriting (and rewriting), as well as production issues. The core of the...
The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome
| Author | Serge Brussolo |
| ISBN | 1612194680 |
An undisputed French master of the fantastic—as prolific as Stephen King; as original as Philip K. Dick—now in English for the first time
In The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome, lucid dreamers called mediums dive into their dreams to retrieve ectoplasms—sticky blobs with curiously soothing...
Against the Fall of Night
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 1596871229 |
ONE BILLION YEARS FROM NOW . . .
Mankind has reached the heights of civilization. Men live thousands of years in perfect freedom and leisure - their wants are attended to by ingenoius machines - peace and culture flourish in ways undreramed of in our time. And yet . . . mankind is dying. The price of peace...
The Amazing Screw-on Head and Other Curious Objects
| Author | Mike Mignola |
| ISBN | 1595825010 |
Mike Mignola has deservedly become one of the biggest names in comics for his creation of Hellboy. But when Mignola needs a short break from the Hellboy universe, he turns to diversions such as The Amazing Screw-On Head, winner of the Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication!
When Emperor Zombie...
