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At the Mouth of the River of Bees

10 best books like At the Mouth of the River of Bees (Kij Johnson): Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, Jagannath, Magic for Beginners, A Girl Goes into the Forest, Conservation of Shadows, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Waiting on a Bright Moon, A Guide to Being Born: Stories, Stranger Things Happen, Tender

Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
AuthorVandana Singh
ISBN1618731432
I recently had something of a revelation about myself that's going to sound silly, but which has reframed the way I think about books and other media I consume: I don't actually care that much about plot.

I care about ideas. I care about characters. I care about theme and atmosphere. I care about...
Jagannath
AuthorKarin Tidbeck
Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly fantastical stories. Whether through the falsified historical record of the uniquely weird Swedish creature known as the “Pyret” or the title story, “Jagannath,” about a biological ark in...
Magic for Beginners
AuthorKelly Link
ISBN0156031876
The nine stories in Link's second collection are the spitting image of those in her acclaimed debut, Stranger Things Happen: effervescent blends of quirky humor and pathos that transform stock themes of genre fiction into the stuff of delicate lyrical fantasy. In "Stone Animals," a house's haunting...
A Girl Goes into the Forest
AuthorPeg Alford Pursell
Following her acclaimed debut, Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, award-winning author Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables. A Girl Goes into the Forest immerses readers in the complex desires, contradictions, and sorrows of daughters, wives,...
Conservation of Shadows
AuthorYoon Ha Lee
ISBN1607013878
There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted. Featuring an Introduction by Aliette De Bodard, Conservation of Shadows features a selection of short...
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
AuthorGenevieve Valentine
ISBN1607012537
Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin...

Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless...
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...
A Guide to Being Born: Stories
AuthorRamona Ausubel
ISBN1594487952
Reminiscent of Aimee Bender and Karen Russell—an enthralling collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition.

Major literary talent Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, coming Summer 2016, combines the otherworldly...
Stranger Things Happen
AuthorKelly Link
ISBN1931520003
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve...
Tender
AuthorSofia Samatar
ISBN1618731262
This is a beautiful, original, often surprising, and yes, tender, short story collection by a fantastic author. Samatar’s novels are lovely, but I think she may excel even more in the short story format, which combines her exquisite writing with compressed plots that necessarily move briskly....
The Bread We Eat in Dreams
AuthorCatherynne M. Valente
ISBN1596065826
Subterranean Press proudly presents a major new collection by one of the brightest stars in the literary firmament. Catherynne M. Valente, the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and other acclaimed novels, now brings readers a treasure...
Inside Job
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN1596060247
Professional debunker Rob, proprietor of the Jaundiced Eye magazine, considers himself incredibly lucky to have Kildy as his sole employee. Smart, dedicated, gorgeous, and, thanks to her last movie before she hung up on Hollywood, rich, she's a pleasure to oblige when she says Rob has to witness this...
What I Didn't See and Other Stories
AuthorKaren Joy Fowler
ISBN1931520682
In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth’s younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

The...
"Okay"
AuthorKieron Gillen
ISBN1534312498
So this is it, the end of The Wicked + The Divine. The end of an era, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s magnum opus five years in the making. A book that got me into comics, the one I’ve been following from the start, my first ongoing series, and for the longest time my favorite. This book means so much...
The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN1618731122
Joan Aiken stories handpicked by Small Beer Press and Aiken's daughter and with an introduction by Kelly Link?!! I couldn't read this fast enough! Aiken, probably best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, wrote over 100 books, including 28 story collections. HOLY CATS. These selected stories...
Hello, Moto
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
ISBN1466803037
I don't understand the ending. Maybe someone could explain to me, in spoiler tag if necessary.

I give two star now for great beginning, good middle part, AND fun innovative link into audio Hello, Moto ringtone when the cellphones were ringing in the story.

(view spoiler)[ I don't understand...
Reading the Bones
AuthorSheila Finch
ISBN1892391082
Nebula Award, 1998 - Best Novella
Locus Online Recommended Reading 2001

A struggling linguist, a sheltered debutante, and a strangely silent child are running for their lives, trapped in the violent confluence of three species, only one of which is human.

The Xenolinguist...
Nebula Awards Showcase 2013
AuthorCatherine Asaro
ISBN1616147830
The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America(R). The editor selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick)...
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