Apex Magazine Issue 80
10 best books like Apex Magazine Issue 80 (Jason Sizemore): The Ballad of Black Tom, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, A Taste of Honey, This Census-Taker, That Game We Played During the War, The City Born Great, The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
The Ballad of Black Tom
| Author | Victor LaValle |
| ISBN | 0765387867 |
Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case...
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
| Author | Kij Johnson |
| ISBN | 0765386518 |
Ghouls, ghasts, and gugs, oh my! The Dream-Quest of Vellitt...
| Author | Lynne M. Thomas |
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...
| Author | Alyssa Wong |
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A Taste of Honey
| Author | Kai Ashante Wilson |
Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin...
This Census-Taker
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 1101967323 |
| Author | Carrie Vaughn |
| ISBN | 0765389355 |
| Author | N.K. Jemisin |
Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient...
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
| Author | Tina Connolly |
| ISBN | 1250296994 |
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...
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
| Author | Daryl Gregory |
| ISBN | 1250209455 |
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
| Author | Dominik Parisien |
Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start.
Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries....
| Author | T. Kingfisher |
From award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes a collection of short stories, including "Jackalope Wives," "The Tomato Thief," "Pocosin," and many others. By turns funny, lyrical, angry and beautiful, this anthology includes two all-new...
| Author | Lynne M. Thomas |
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,...
| Author | Nina Allan |
| ISBN | 0765390655 |
| Author | Lynne M. Thomas |
Featuring new fiction by Beth Cato, Stephen Graham Jones, JY Yang, Sarah Pinsker, and S. Qiouyi Lu, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Sam J. Miller, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Shveta Thakrar, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Paul Booth, poetry...
| Author | T. Kingfisher |
| Author | Neil Clarke |
"The Ghost Ship Anastasia" by Rich Larson
"A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
"Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities" by Lettie Prell
"Interchange" by Gary Kloster
"Milla" by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini, translated by Rich Larson
"Events...
| Author | Lynne M. Thomas |
Featuring new fiction by N.K. Jemisin, Fran Wilde, C. S. E. Cooney, Catherynne M. Valente, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Delia Sherman, reprinted fiction by Malinda Lo, essays by Sophie Aldred, Cecilia Tan, Sarah Kuhn,...
Penric and the Shaman
| Author | Lois McMaster Bujold |
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 115 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #115)
| Author | Neil Clarke |
“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
| Author | Fran Wilde |
| ISBN | 0765389835 |
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...
An Unimaginable Light
| Author | John C. Wright |
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #225
| Author | Scott H. Andrews |
Zee lives in a world inhabited entirely by doll-like wind-up people and animals. They have a mysterious, unseen maker...
The Martian Obelisk
| Author | Linda Nagata |
| ISBN | 1250162408 |
In another tale that explores human choices in the face of apocalyptic events, Susannah Li-Langford is an eighty year old architect who has spent the last seventeen...