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10 best books like Inside Job (Connie Willis): The Hob's Bargain, Conservation of Shadows, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, The Healer's War, The Computer Connection, Howard Who?, Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories, The End of the Sentence, Word Puppets

The Hob's Bargain
AuthorPatricia Briggs
ISBN0441008135
Alternate-cover edition can be found here

Beauty and The Beast

Hated and feared, magic was banished from the land. But now, freed from the spells of the wicked bloodmages, magic—both good and evil—returns. And Aren of Fallbrook feels her own power of sight strengthen and grow…

Overcome...
Conservation of Shadows
AuthorYoon Ha Lee
ISBN1607013878
There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted. Featuring an Introduction by Aliette De Bodard, Conservation of Shadows features a selection of short...
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
AuthorGenevieve Valentine
ISBN1607012537
Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin...

Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless...
At the Mouth of the River of Bees
AuthorKij Johnson
ISBN1931520801
A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy...
The Healer's War
AuthorElizabeth Ann Scarborough
ISBN0553282522
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...
The Computer Connection
AuthorAlfred Bester
ISBN0743487133
A band of immortals recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess, with the group's help, gains control of Extro, the super-computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. They plan to rid Earth of political repression and to further Guess's researches-which...
Howard Who?
AuthorHoward Waldrop
ISBN1931520186
"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...
Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories
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...
The End of the Sentence
AuthorMaria Dahvana Headley
ISBN1596066792
It begins with a letter from a prisoner...

As he attempts to rebuild his life in rural Oregon after a tragic accident, Malcolm Mays finds himself corresponding with Dusha Chuchonnyhoof, a mysterious entity who claims to be the owner of Malcolm's house, jailed unjustly for 117 years. The prisoner...
Word Puppets
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...
Reading the Bones
AuthorSheila Finch
ISBN1892391082
Nebula Award, 1998 - Best Novella
Locus Online Recommended Reading 2001

A struggling linguist, a sheltered debutante, and a strangely silent child are running for their lives, trapped in the violent confluence of three species, only one of which is human.

The Xenolinguist...
Nebula Awards Showcase 2013
AuthorCatherine Asaro
ISBN1616147830
The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America(R). The editor selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick)...
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