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10 best books like Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (James Tiptree Jr.): How Long 'til Black Future Month?, The Dispossessed, Exhalation: Stories, China Mountain Zhang, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, The Female Man, Stations of the Tide, Air, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, Uncanny Magazine Issue 24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue

How Long 'til Black Future Month?
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
ISBN0316491349
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian...
The Dispossessed
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0061054887
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly...
Exhalation: Stories
AuthorTed Chiang
An alternate cover edition for this book can be found here.

From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already...
China Mountain Zhang
AuthorMaureen F. McHugh
ISBN0312860986
With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best science fiction writers. In its pages, we enter a post-revolution America, moving from the hyper-urbanized eastern seaboard to the Arctic bleakness of Baffin Island; from the new Imperial City to an...
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
AuthorSamuel R. Delany
ISBN0819567140
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is a science fiction masterpiece, an essay on the inexplicability of sexual attractiveness, and an examination of interstellar politics among far-flung worlds. First published in 1984, the novel's central issues--technology, globalization, gender, sexuality,...
The Female Man
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0807063134
I've seen people argue, both here and elsewhere, that this book is outdated and no longer topical.

I'm really confused what rose-colored glasses they're wearing, because as far as I can tell, the majority of this book is still far too true. I've been in these places far, far too often to write...
Stations of the Tide
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN0380817616
This was some kind of amazing. The main character, who was never referred to as anything but Bureaucrat, was hardly my definition of a bureaucrat. He was part outcast, part superspy, part magician's apprentice, and part avenger. He wears so many hats during this superb little gem that I never slow down...
Air
AuthorGeoff Ryman
ISBN0312261217
Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without power lines, computers, or machines. This technology...
Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
AuthorKen Liu
ISBN1250297664
Broken Stars, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu-- is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Following Invisible Planets,...
Uncanny Magazine Issue 24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
COVER
"And With the Lamps We Are Multitudes of Light" by Likhain

EDITORIAL
"The Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction Manifesto" by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien

FICTION
"The House on the Moon" by William Alexander
"Birthday Girl" by Rachel Swirsky
"An...
Dangerous Visions
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN0743452615
The most honored anthology of fantastic fiction ever published, featuring the works of such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Bloch, Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Damon Knight, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Frederik Pohl, Roger...
Synners
AuthorPat Cadigan
ISBN1568581858
Cyberpunk.

Is it all pretty much a mess wrapped up with mirror shades and spinal shunts, hacking and guns?

NOT this one!

Well, it was pretty much a mess of characters and mediots for more than half the novel and I'll be honest, I was rather mystified and wondering where the novel...
Once and Forever
AuthorKenji Miyazawa
ISBN4770021844
It is time that Kenji Miyazawa, long recognized as a writer of genius in his own country, enjoyed the same reputation abroad. Are his fables, in which acorns quarrel and flowers fret about losing their looks, written for children or adults? They are for both: for adventurous young minds, but also for...
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