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Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories

10 best books like Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories (Connie Willis): The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, Lifeblood, The Terminal Experiment, The Moon and the Sun, Press Enter, Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly, Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story, Sailing to Byzantium, Christmas in the Trenches, With Morning Comes Mistfall

The Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
AuthorRudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) was an English author and poet. He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling...
Lifeblood
AuthorWerner A. Lind
ISBN1931095698
All Ana Vasilifata ever wanted was a simple life, with a good husband, children, and a happy home. What she found was a vampire who made her his bride. And when she fled to England in the winter of 1665, she found a stake in the hands of a fearful and angry mob.

Over three hundred years later, an accident...
The Terminal Experiment
AuthorRobert J. Sawyer
ISBN0061053104
To test his theories of immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. The first has all knowledge of physical existence edited out, to simulate life after death. The second is without knowledge of aging or death, to simulate immortality....
The Moon and the Sun
AuthorVonda N. McIntyre
ISBN0671567659
In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his domain, wealth and beauty take all; frivolity begets cruelty; science and alchemy collide. From the Hall of Mirrors to the vermin-infested attics of the Chateau at Versailles, courtiers compete to please the king,...
Press Enter
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN1568652798
This award-winning Science Fiction novella is part murder mystery, part romance, and more than a little bit scary.

Victor Apfel, a troubled war vet, gets an odd, pre-recorded phone message, instructing him to go inside the house next door. He opens the door to find his neighbor shot through...
Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s: Martian Time-Slip / Dr. Bloodmoney / Now Wait for Last Year / Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said / A Scanner Darkly
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN1598530259
Philip K. Dick was a writer of incandescent originality and astonishing fertility, who made and unmade fictional world-systems with ferocious rapidity and unbridled speculative daring. “The floor joists of the universe,” he once wrote, “are visible in my novels.” The five novels collected...
Johnny Mnemonic: The Screenplay and the Story
AuthorWilliam Gibson
"I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though,...
Sailing to Byzantium
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN0743487117
The world's most distinguished author of the literature of the fantastic presents his most extraordinary stories of worlds lost and dreams fulfilled... In his illustrious forty-five year career as a novelist and author of short fiction, Robert Silverberg has belonged in the company of the best writers...
Christmas in the Trenches
AuthorJohn McCutcheon
ISBN1561453749
Decided this would be a good read for Christmas Eve and I was right! This is one of my favorite Christmas stories and it’s really touching and emotional (I mean the real Christmas truce story that this book is about, not the Robot Chicken version, though if you haven’t seen that, look it up, it’s great!).

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With Morning Comes Mistfall
AuthorGeorge R.R. Martin
This was a wonderful story about a journalist who travels with a team of researchers who try and find the "Bigfoot" of Wraithworld. Wraithworld is a planet covered in thick mist and beautifully weird forests. The thing that the researchers are trying to find are called wraiths, hence the name of the planet....
The Order of Things: How Everything in the World Is Organized Into Hierarchies, Structures, and Pecking Orders
AuthorBarbara Ann Kipfer
ISBN1567315607
This amazing, one-of-a-kind reference book has been revised and completely updated. Called "a definite reference must" by King Features Syndicate, The Order of Things is an illustrated collection of orders and classifications in science, religion, history, business, the arts, sports, technology,...
The Traveler
AuthorDaren Simkin
ISBN0374116393
Once there was a boy named Charlie, who had a nice life—but it wasn’t quite perfect. He had to spend too much of his time doing things he didn’t want to do. So one day he packed up all his time in a suitcase, locked it up, and set off to find a better way to spend it. Charlie traveled the world looking for...
The Unveiling
AuthorStefan Alford
ISBN9781105575
Convincingly blending historical fact with fiction, this centuries spanning adventure will have you questioning the truth about reincarnation. In 533 an ecumenical council ordered by the Roman emperor made it a crime of heresy to continue to teach or believe in reincarnation. Some theologians...
The Kolob Theorem: A Mormon's View of God's Starry Universe
AuthorLynn M. Hilton
ISBN1566846412
God's Throne and the Celestial, Terrestrial and Telestial Kingdoms. The Kolob Theorem allows us to see more clearly the home we lived in before we were born and the home we will live in after we die. These places appear more real; they are made of matter, some of very fine and pure matter, and exist in time...
Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories
AuthorTerry Bisson
ISBN0312890354
Bears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Bisson's finest works for the first time in one volume, among them the darkly...
Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend/The Nightingale and the Rose
AuthorP. Craig Russell
ISBN1561633917
In this graphic novel, Russell takes two fairytales by Oscar Wilde, "The Devoted Friend" and "The Nightingale and the Rose" and turns them into a comic strip story and changes some of the stories elements. The first fairytale, "The Devoted Friend" tells a story of a young boy named Hans, who has the most...
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