Fountain of Age

6 best books like Fountain of Age (Nancy Kress): You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories, The Healer's War, Inside Job, In the Company of Ogres, Howard Who?, Welcome to the N.H.K.

You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories

Author	Mary Rickert
ISBN	1618731106

Open this book to any page and find yourself enspelled by these lush, alchemical stories. Faced with the uncanny and the impossible, Rickert’s protagonists are as painfully, shockingly, complexly human as the readers who will encounter them. Mothers, daughters, witches, artists, strangers,...

The Healer's War

Author	Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
ISBN	0553282522

A novel of the Vietnam War, with a magical, mystical twist.

Lt. Kitty McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues and...

Inside Job

Author	Connie Willis
ISBN	1596060247

Professional debunker Rob, proprietor of the Jaundiced Eye magazine, considers himself incredibly lucky to have Kildy as his sole employee. Smart, dedicated, gorgeous, and, thanks to her last movie before she hung up on Hollywood, rich, she's a pleasure to oblige when she says Rob has to witness this...

In the Company of Ogres

Author	A. Lee Martinez
ISBN	0765354578

For someone who's immortal, Never Dead Ned manages to die with alarming frequency--he just has the annoying habit of rising from the grave. But this soldier might be better dead than face his latest assignment.

Ogre Company is the legion's dumping ground--a motley, undisciplined group...

Howard Who?

Author	Howard Waldrop
ISBN	1931520186

"If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you."-George R. R. Martin The first paperback (and twentieth anniversary) edition of a landmark debut collection. Howard Waldrop's encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes, baseball players, world wars, long-dead film stars, Mexican wrestlers, pulp...

Welcome to the N.H.K.

Author	Tatsuhiko Takimoto
ISBN	1427802564

I really liked how this book led me on a journey through the main character Satou's despair, and his absolute wreck of a life inspired me to change my own. It's like... more subversive than Chuck Palahniuk, but less offensive than Mein Kampf, if you get what I mean. This book is pretty heavy stuff to deal...