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10 best books like Deep Navigation (Alastair Reynolds): Final Girls, The Jack Vance Treasury, The Bread We Eat in Dreams, Glimpses, God Emperor of Didcot, Academic Exercises, The Sword & Sorcery Anthology, The Wind From the Sun, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories, Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories

AuthorMira Grant
What if you could fix the worst parts of yourself by confronting your worst fears?

Dr. Jennifer Webb has invented proprietary virtual reality technology that purports to heal psychological wounds by running clients through scenarios straight out of horror movies and nightmares. In a carefully...
AuthorJack Vance
ISBN1596060778
A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.

Nebula and World Fantasy Grand Master Jack Vance is one of the most admired and cherished writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world, and is one of the truly important and influential storytellers...
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...
Glimpses
AuthorLewis Shiner
ISBN0312267436
Ray Shackleford lives in the ruins of the idealistic 1960s. Veteran of failed garage bands, he works as a repairman of stereo equipment, tending the dying embers of his marriage, and dreaming of bygone days and the music that almost was.
When he finds the music he dreams of has been mysteriously recorded...
AuthorToby Frost
ISBN1905802242
Tea . . . a beverage brewed from the fermented dried leaves of the shrub Camelli sinensis and imbibed by all the great civilizations in the galaxy's history; a source of refreshment, stimulation, and, above all else, of moral fiber—without which the British Space Empire must surely crumble to leave...
AuthorK.J. Parker
ISBN1596066091
Academic Exercises is the first collection of shorter work by master novelist K.J. Parker, and it is a stunner. Weighing in at over 500 pages, this generous volume gathers together thirteen highly distinctive stories, essays, and novellas, including the recent World Fantasy Award-Winner, “Let...
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
ISBN1616960698
Terrifying barbarians, cunning mages, and daring heroes run rampant through these exceptional examples of the exciting sword and sorcery genre. In “Tower of the Elephant,” Conan takes up jewel thievery but proves to be far better with his sword. “The Flame Bringers” finds antihero Elric...
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
ISBN0575600527
A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves.
Contents

vii • Preface (The Wind from the Sun) • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
3...
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN1596061103
"Variety is the soul of pleasure," And variety is what this comprehensive new collection of Connie Willis is all about. The stories cover the entire spectrum, from sad to sparkling to terrifying, from classics to hard-to-find treasures with everything in between -- orangutans, Egypt, earthworms,...
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0312875231
As author, poet, and editor, Jane Yolen has published more than 150 books and has won two Nebula Awards, the Caldecott Medal, the World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, the Daedalus Award, the Kerlan Award, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has written one of the 20th century's greatest...
AuthorClive Barker
Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Bob Eggleton

Tortured Souls is one of the most vividly imagined, tightly compressed novellas ever written by the incomparable Clive Barker. At once violent and erotic, brutal and strangely beautiful, it takes us into the heart of the legendary “first...
AuthorCherie Priest
ISBN1596066849
The Ranger

On the island of Galveston, off the coast of southeast Texas, lies a hotel called the Jacaranda. In its single year of operation, two dozen people have died there. The locals say it's cursed. The Rangers say that's nonsense, but they know a man who might be willing to investigate. Horatio...
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN9781596067
Harlan Ellison has been compared to an annoying gnat, a no-see ’em buzzing in your peripheral vision till you try to swat him, and he’s gone.

The great English writer Michael Moorcock—and if his name does not leave you dumbstruck with awe, you should move on—called Ellison a “fox...
AuthorJacqueline Carey
This is a short story (maybe 30 pages) that I'd been meaning to read for years, but only just recently got to do so. It's a really quick read, although it takes a while to let it sink in.
Dala's people, the Keren, are in service to the Shaladan. While they're slaves, the Keren don't seem to mind it too terribly....
AuthorJoe R. Lansdale
The unmistakable accent of the Piney Woods of East Texas rolls from the pages of Fender Lizards, Joe R. Lansdale’s tale of the life and love and work of one Dot Sherman, who delivers on her promise that her story is “the real thing from beginning to end.”

Dot waitresses on roller skates at...
AuthorRichard Chizmar
ISBN1596067934
In 1996, Richard Chizmar's debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it "a sterling collection" while singling out "The Silence of Sorrow" as "an understated masterpiece."

Two years later, Subterranean Press...
AuthorJohn Scalzi
ISBN1596068124
The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly...
AuthorTim Powers
ISBN1596067810
What do you do if the man you've vowed to kill dies before you can kill him?

In college, Tom Holbrook worshipped Shasta DiMaio from afar, but she married the arrogant John Atwater—and Atwater eventually murdered her.

All that's left for Tom is revenge. He has devoted the rest of his...
AuthorKelley Armstrong
ISBN1596068213
The disappearing hitchhiker is one of the hoariest urban legends, and no one knows that better than Gabriel Walsh, a lawyer who grew up on folklore and myth. When author of books on the supernatural Patrick brings Gabriel a case of a hitchhiking woman in white who vanished on a country road after accepting...
AuthorMary Robinette Kowal
ISBN1607014564
A new short story collection from Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal, with an introduction by Patrick Rothfuss.

Table of Contents
* "The Bound Man"
* "Chrysalis"
* "Rampion"
* "At the Edge of Dying"
* "Clockwork Chickadee"
* "Body Language"
* "Waiting...
AuthorChris Beckett
ISBN0955318181
I did something different with 'The Turing Test'. The book is an anthology of sci-fi short stories, and I forced a limit of one story a day upon myself. This turned out to be a good choice because these are stories about ideas that are difficult and philosophically challenging, and devouring them all at...
A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff
AuthorNeil Gaiman
"Before You Read This" (first published as Todd Klein print)
"Featherquest" (first published in Imagine #14)
"Jerusalem" (first broadcast by BBC Radio 4)
"Feminine Endings" (first published in Four Letter Word)
"Orange" (first published in The Starry Rift)
"Orphee" (first...
AuthorCory Doctorow
"With a Little Help is my first serious experiment in self-publishing. I’ve published many novels, short story collections, books of essays and so on with publishers, and it’s all been very good and satisfying and educational and so on, but it seems like it’s time to try something new.

You...
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