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10 best books like Driftglass (Samuel R. Delany): New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Ghost Summer: Stories, The Kite of Stars and Other Stories, The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan, Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball, Yiwu, Asymmetry, Morning Child and Other Stories

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
AuthorNisi Shawl
ISBN1781085781
Anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races

There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” proclaimed Octavia E Butler.

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many...
Ghost Summer: Stories
AuthorTananarive Due
Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening.

In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small...
The Kite of Stars and Other Stories
AuthorDean Francis Alfar
ISBN9712719233
The [over] price that I paid for this book is so worth it . You see, I ended up buying the last "almost damaged, but not as a sale item" copy on a kind-of high-end bookstore, because I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find another copy. But DFA made that Php xx5 amount I paid for the book worth it!!

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The Knife Thrower and Other Stories
AuthorSteven Millhauser
ISBN0753808218
The Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself. Flying carpets; subterranean amusement parks; a band of teenage girls who meet secretly in the night in order to do "nothing at all";...
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
AuthorTed Chiang
ISBN1596061006
In medieval Baghdad, a penniless man is brought before the most powerful man in the world, the caliph himself, to tell his story. It begins with a walk in the bazaar, but soon grows into a tale unlike any other told in the caliph's empire. It's a story that includes not just buried treasure and a band of thieves,...
The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan
AuthorMasumi Washington
ISBN1421542234
A web browser that threatens to conquer the world. The longest, loneliest railroad on Earth. A North Korean nuke hitting Tokyo, a hollow asteroid full of automated rice paddies, and a specialist in breaking up “virtual” marriages. And yes, giant robots. These thirteen stories from and about the...
Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
“What are you saying? That Timmy’s not dead?”

“I’m saying Timmy Johnson may very well live forever.” Mrs. Hanson gave Grace another of those strange, bleak smiles. “You still want to arrest my son for murder?”

this is a free tor short on a technicality - it's a reprint...
Yiwu
AuthorLavie Tidhar
ISBN1250198828
Can dreams come true? They can if you win the lottery, which promises to provide what your heart desires. For a humble shopkeeper in Yiwu, it’s a living, selling lottery tickets. Until a winning ticket opens up mysteries he’d never imagined.

Lavie Tidha's Yiwu is a Tor.com Original short...
Asymmetry
AuthorKendra Fortmeyer
4.0⭐ "I’m just saying,” The Other said, “it’s not so bad now.”
**spoilers**

If you’re following my reviews, thanks for rolling with me. ♡

We’re on the Season 3 LIVE episodes of Stitcher’s LeVar Burton Reads, and we’re gifted with "Asymmetry" by Kendra...
Morning Child and Other Stories
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0743493184
An alternative cover for this edition is here

A collection of over a half-dozen classic science fiction stories by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and editor Gardner Dozois.

Contents
vii • Introduction (Morning Child and Other Stories) • essay by Gardner Dozois
1...
The Vishakanya's Choice
AuthorRoshani Chokshi
“Did we have a choice? An honest one. A real Choice.”

Who would you be if you had a choice? What would you do?

Early in her life, Sudha's fate was divined to be a lonely, fruitless future of young widowhood. So, it was considered a blessing when she was brought to the Hastinapur harem...
In The City of Martyrs
AuthorBonnie Jo Stufflebeam
5.0⭐ “We’re strangers. Let’s leave it at that.”

**spoilers**

If you’re following my reviews, thanks for rolling with me. ♡

We’re on the Season 3 LIVE episodes of Stitcher’s LeVar Burton Reads, and we’re gifted with "The City Of Martyrs” by Bonnie...
The Best We Can: A Tor.com Original
AuthorCarrie Vaughn
ISBN1466850442


We—the scientific community, astronomers, philosophers, writers, all of humanity—had spent a lot of time thinking about what would happen if we found definitive proof that intelligent life existed elsewhere in the universe. All the scenarios involved these other intelligences...
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