Jackalope Wives and Other Stories

10 best books like Jackalope Wives and Other Stories (T. Kingfisher): The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria, As Good as New, Black Dogs Part One: The House of Diamond, Wicked Wonders, Driftglass, Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers, The New Order, Lightspeed Magazine, September 2017, Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball, Yiwu

The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria

Author	Carlos Hernandez
ISBN	1495607399

A quirky collection of short sci-fi stories for fans of Kij Johnson and Kelly Link
 
Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken; this collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who...

As Good as New

Author	Charlie Jane Anders
ISBN	1466881038

Marisol was an award-winning playwright, but that hadn’t saved her from the end of the world.

it wasn't until today, when i (finally) sat down to reread this story for review, that i realized this was written by the author of All the Birds in the Sky, a book i bought in hardcover because it was...

Black Dogs Part One: The House of Diamond

Author	Ursula Vernon
ISBN	0976921243

Black Dogs: The House of Diamond is the first of two volumes chronicling the adventures of young Lyra, sole survivor of the massacre of her family's estate. Along with a wandering dog-soldier, she is swept up on a mission for the elven nation of Anu'tintavel in its war against a powerful sorcerer. With...

Wicked Wonders

Author	Ellen Klages
ISBN	1616962615

The award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea returns with smart and subversive new tales

A rebellious child identifies with Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry share one last morning on Earth. A solitary woman inherits a penny arcade haunted by a beautiful...

Driftglass

Author	Samuel R. Delany
ISBN	0451144244

Why?From Ganymede to Gomorrah, a bizarre breed of planet-hopping humans sell their sexless, neutered bodies... so that others may explore the outer limits of sexual perversion.Far beneath the surface of the planet earth, a doomed architect lives out the rest of his years in a hideous life-sustaining...

Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers

Author	Sarena Ulibarri
ISBN	0998702277

Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the...

The New Order

Author	Karen E. Bender
ISBN	1640090991

The New Order shows a singular writer at the top of her form dealing with contemporary themes and ideas, shining a spotlight on the dark corners of our nature, our instincts, and our country.

The critically acclaimed author of Refund returns with a new collection of stories that boldly examines...

Lightspeed Magazine, September 2017

Author

John Joseph Adams

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...

Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball

Author

N.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

Author	Lavie Tidhar
ISBN	1250198828

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

Author

Kendra 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

Author	Gardner Dozois
ISBN	0743493184

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

Author

Roshani 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

Author

Bonnie 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...

For a Little While: New and Selected Stories

Author	Rick Bass
ISBN	0316381152

Long considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have the definitive collection of stories, new and old, from the writer Newsweek has called "an American classic."

To...

Crossed Genres Quarterly 4

Author	Bart R. Leib
ISBN	0615578632

Each month of Crossed Genres Magazine combines Science Fiction & Fantasy with a new theme. Quarterly 4 contains Issues 34 (Monsters), 35 (Dark Comedy) and 36 (Different), plus exclusive new content!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Issue 34: Monsters
“The Fire” by Timothy T. Murphy
“Inhuman...

The Mountain of Iron

Author

Ursula Vernon

Lyra would not have recognized the young woman that she had grown into during the short time since becoming the protege of a dog-soldier and a student of the capricious natural magic force known as the Kytha. She has little time for such introspection, however, as she flees from the furiious Archmage...

Tin House 72: Summer Reading 2017

Author	Rob Spillman
ISBN	1942855117

Full disclosure, this is a short story I listened to on the podcast "Levar Burton reads". I normally wouldn't include it in my challenge, however it is listed as a stand-alone short story and not part of a collection so here it is.

This story is the emotional retelling of a young woman's experience...