Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
10 best books like Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness (Mike Allen): Dark Faith, Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, Lightspeed: Year One, Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, The Apex Book of World SF 2, Map of Dreams, Salon Fantastique: Thirty Original Tales of Fantasy, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012
| Author | Maurice Broaddus |
| ISBN | 0982159684 |
The destructiveness of passion, both earthly and supernatural, makes cities bleed and souls burn across worlds, through endless time. Experience the spiritual side of the zombie apocalypse in "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" and transcend both hell and nirvana in "Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch's...
| Author | Nicola Griffith |
| ISBN | 1585675768 |
In the groundbreaking anthology, queer writers write fantasy for the first time, and genre writers explore queer characters. But don't expect the usual fantasy backdrops-these stories will give you a frisson, a thrill, as they fizz off the page. They are extraordinary characters living outside...
| Author | John Joseph Adams |
| ISBN | 1607013045 |
Lightspeed (www.lightspeedmagazine.com) is the critically-acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Lightspeed publishes all types of science fiction, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf,...
| Author | Ekaterina Sedia |
| ISBN | 0979624606 |
This anthology of 21 original fantasy stories explores humanity’s most dynamic and forceful creation—the city. Featuring tales from fantasy heavyweights such as Hal Duncan, Catherynne M. Valente, Jay Lake, and Barth Anderson, the collection whisks readers from dizzying rooftop perches...
| Author | Delia Sherman |
| ISBN | 1931520240 |
Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political—and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.
This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex,...
| Author | Kelly Link |
| ISBN | 0345499131 |
Unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson Karen Joy Fowler Karen Russell Jeffrey Ford among many others
Contains STORIES by the AMAZING Jeffrey Ford, the FABULOUS Karen Joy Fowler, the UNLIKELY Kelly Link, the THRILLING Nalo Hopkinson, the SHOCKINGLY...
An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist. In The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist...
| Author | M. Rickert |
| ISBN | 1930846444 |
Set in a reality where nightmares do not fade upon waking, this anthology skims along the surface of life and dips just beneath, revealing the hidden machinations that fuel dreams. These underlying myths and fantasies exist not as musty old stories but as ancient truths that have come to illuminate...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 1560258330 |
Here are original stories that straddle the borderline between "fantasy" and "mainstream" fiction, stories both bright and dark in tone (without straying into the realm of horror fiction). Sometimes set in the contemporary or historical world, sometimes pure fantasy or an imagined "history,"...
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012
| Author | Paula Guran |
| ISBN | 1607013452 |
Take a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to find the dark — in a house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white pool in an Australian cave, the trenches of World War I, the deep woods. You would not be surprised to find the dark in a cheap apartment on the wrong side of town, down...
| Author | JoSelle Vanderhooft |
| ISBN | 1590213963 |
Welcome to a new annual anthology created in honor of the late Joanna Russ, American writer, academic, and feminist whose work shone brightly in the male-dominated field of speculative fiction of the latter half of the twentieth century. Heiresses of Russ offers readers in one volume the best lesbian-themed...
Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction
| Author | Jetse de Vries |
| ISBN | 1906735670 |
Some of the world's most talented SF writers collected to throw light on a brighter future.
Shine: a collection of gems that throw light on a brighter future. Some of the world's most talented SF writers (including Alastair Reynolds, Kay Keyon and Jason Stoddard) show how things can change...
| Author | Jonathan Strahan |
| ISBN | 1597801879 |
Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war... Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today's most...
| Author | Sean Wallace |
| ISBN | 0762444681 |
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk showcases the very best in the form of stories by Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Cherie Priest, and many more.
An anthology that looks to the future through the lens of the past, these 30 mash-ups of past and future push the boundaries of steampunk.
This is...
| Author | Sharyn November |
| ISBN | 0142405523 |
First Firebirds. Then Firebirds Rising. Now there is Firebirds Soaring, the third anthology of original stories by some of today?s finest writers of fantasy and science fiction. These authors, including Nancy Farmer (The Sea of Trolls), Ellen Klages (The Green Glass Sea), Margo Lanagan (Black Juice),...
| Author | Ann VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 1616960868 |
27 fiction, 4 non-fiction entries imagine technology in Victorian era and philosophize on influences. Intro, bios, notes.
Fiction
“Harry and Marlowe and the Talisman of the Cult of Egil” by Carrie Vaughn
“Addison Howell and the Clockroach” by Cherie Priest
“On Wooden...
