Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light

9 best books like Blue is a Darkness Weakened by Light (Sarah McCarry): A Cup of Salt Tears, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, Red as Blood and White as Bone, Waiting on a Bright Moon, Lullaby for a Lost World, These Deathless Bones, Fragments of Horror, The Art of Space Travel, Come See the Living Dryad

A Cup of Salt Tears

Author

Isabel Yap

Makino’s mother taught her caution, showed her how to carve her name into cucumbers, and insisted that she never let a kappa touch her. But when she grows up and her husband Tetsuya falls deathly ill, a kappa that claims to know her comes calling with a barbed promise. “A Cup of Salt Tears” is a dark...

A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers

Author

Alyssa Wong

The day my sister ended the world, the sky opened up in rain for the first time in years, flooding the desert wash behind our house. The snakes drowned in their holes and the javelinas stampeded downstream, but the water overtook them, and the air filled with their screaming as they were swept away.

this...

Red as Blood and White as Bone

Author	Theodora Goss
ISBN	0765389428

I am a daughter of these mountains, and of the tales. Once, I wanted to be in the tales themselves. When I was young, I had my part in one—a small part, but important. When I grew older, I had my part in another kind of story. But now I want to become a teller of tales.

this story is everything that's...

Waiting on a Bright Moon

Author

J.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...

Lullaby for a Lost World

Author	Aliette de Bodard
ISBN	0765389819

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

Author

Cassandra 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...

Fragments of Horror

Author	Junji Ito
ISBN	1421580799

A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga. An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest. Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic, from the erotic to the...

The Art of Space Travel

Author	Nina Allan
ISBN	0765390655

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...

Come See the Living Dryad

Author	Theodora Goss
ISBN	0765395673

I am improbable, am I not?

Almost, but not quite, impossible.


theodora goss won my heart with the stunning free tor short Red as Blood and White as Bone, and after giving me something so perfectly perfect, it would have taken a complete dud to mar my high opinion of her. fortunately,...