Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind
10 best books like Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind (Bruce Coville): Thomas, Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, Jedi Under Siege, I Saw You That Night!, The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat, Dragon War, The World's Best Fairy Tales, The First Journey, The Magic World, The Trouble with Humans
| Author | Robin Jarvis |
| ISBN | 0811854124 |
Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with? Variety is the spice of life, so I’ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously. This book falls into my FINISHING THE SERIES! list.
I loves me a good...
Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction
| Author | Al Sarrantonio |
| ISBN | 0451459040 |
This landmark anthology presents thirty groundbreaking stories from the masters of speculative fiction heralding the future of the genre with original and revolutionary works.
All-new, original stories by
� Ursula K. Le Guin
� Gregory Benford
� Joe Haldeman
�...
| Author | Kevin J. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0425166333 |
This book is a million times better than The Last Jedi.
This book could have been made into a film with no explanation of characters and it would still would have been better than The Last Jedi.
The Luke Skywalker I know and love is not a pussy.
What the fuck is "Force-Skyping"?
Finn...
| Author | R.L. Stine |
| ISBN | 0590474812 |
Sand. Surf. Sun. Roxie lives for the summer. But this summer things aren't going the way Roxie planned.
It all started when she broke into Lee Blume's house just to win a stupid bet. Because while she was in Lee's house, Roxie saw something she shouldn't have seen. Heard something she shouldn't...
| Author | Theoni Pappas |
| ISBN | 1884550142 |
With such a colorful cover, I was dismayed when I opened to find this to be a one-color printing... in purple. For elementary school libraries that makes it more affordable to share it with children.
This book is a wonderful collection of brief introductions to various well known visual math...
| Author | Laurence Yep |
| ISBN | 0064405257 |
The evil, immortal Boneless King has taken possession of the powerful dragon cauldron - with the soul of Thorn, the human child, trapped inside - and has declared all-out war on dragonkind. His plan: to use the cauldron to boil the seas and destroy the dragons. And he has convinced Shimmer's brother,...
| Author | Belle Becker Sideman |
| ISBN | 0895770784 |
Contents
Jorinda and Joringel
Puss in Boots
The Emperor's New Clothes
Billy Beg and His Bull
Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes, and Little Three Eyes
The Red Shoes
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Snegourka, the Snow Maiden
The Three Little Pigs
The Shoemaker and...
| Author | Katherine Applegate |
| ISBN | 0439061644 |
The First Journey is the first in a spin-off "choose-you-own-adventure" type of book based on the popular 1990's Animorphs series, which followed a crowd of average teen kids who, with the help of a mysterious alien, gained the ability to turn into any animal they wanted. As interesting and fun as the...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 0140367659 |
Not everyone is successful at writing literary fairytales, especially those stories that mix the modern world with traditional wonder tales of magic and enchantment. Joan Aiken was one who mastered this deft conjoining of old and new, as did her predecessor Edith Nesbit. Maybe it takes a special individual,...
| Author | Christopher Anvil |
| ISBN | 1416521429 |
Humans—there’s no understanding them, and no dealing with them either. Or even their planet. Pity the poor aliens, whose shape-changing ability should let them take over the planet Earth before the humans even know they’re there—if it weren’t for all that omnipresent pollution. Or consider...
| Author | Tom Brown |
| ISBN | 1936393573 |
Trapped on an island off the coast of Maine, the people of Hopeless find life a little darker and more dangerous with every day that passes. The number of orphans rises continually, but who can say what happens to their parents? Plenty of the bodies are never found. This is not the stuff of happy, careless...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0312206860 |
Over 250,000 words of the finest fantasy and horror
A. S. Byatt
Charles de Lint
Karen Joy Fowler
Neil Gaiman
Lisa Goldstein
Stephen King
Ellen Kushner
Patricia A. McKillip
Steven Millhauser
Michael Marshall Smith
Peter Straub
Jane Yolen
For...
| Author | Paul Zindel |
| ISBN | 0786851503 |
Loch and his sister are with their father on a scientific expedition to track lake monsters. Their father's boss, Anthony Cavenger, a ruthless publishing mogul, is determined to prove that the legends are fact. Until now, it has been a fruitless exercise. But suddenly, on a routine exploration, a hideous...
| Author | Robert Shearman |
| ISBN | 1905583141 |
Analyzing the complexity, absurdity, and blessedness of seemingly ordinary people, this debut collection examines the metaphysical assumptions surrounding death. From the end of a relationship to the meaning behind its title, this anthology continually surprises and subverts, utilizing topics...
| Author | Bill Wallace |
| ISBN | 0671754165 |
Whoever heard of a name like Mewkiss! Ugh! How can a "Mewkiss" be brave? Why couldn't my Jessica call me "fearless" or "Ratkiller"? And why do I have to share a tub with a barky puppy named Barkus?
Actually... its nice to have somebody to cuddle up to. My real problem is rats. Two scary rats in the...
Newfangled Fairy Tales, Book #1
| Author | Bruce Lansky |
| ISBN | 0671577042 |
This collection of ten contemporary fairy tales puts a delightful new spin on classic stories and themes. King Midas is a workaholic banker who would rather play with his money than attend his son's Little League baseball games. The Big Bad Wolf is running a successful scam on Little Red's Grandma until...
| Author | Dave Land |
| ISBN | 1569719896 |
Collecting issues #13-#16 of the quarterly anthology smash sensation, Star Wars Tales Volume 4 features an astonishing collection of stories featuring Jedi Master Mace Windu, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and of course the big man himself—Darth Vader! Tales has explored every corner...
| Author | Jerry Pournelle |
| ISBN | 0523485557 |
In the beginning spears were "high-tech", and the most that one weapon could accomplish at one time was one death. But millennia passed and techniques improved. By the time of the Romans a lucky bolt might impale a file of infantry. By the dreadful 20th century the very existence of the race - we still were...
