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Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

10 best books like Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was (Angélica Gorodischer): Jagannath, Conservation of Shadows, The Ape's Wife and Other Stories, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories, Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Travel Light, Filter House

Jagannath
AuthorKarin Tidbeck
Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly fantastical stories. Whether through the falsified historical record of the uniquely weird Swedish creature known as the “Pyret” or the title story, “Jagannath,” about a biological ark in...
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...
The Ape's Wife and Other Stories
AuthorCaitlín R. Kiernan
ISBN1596065869
Caitlín R. Kiernan has been described as one of “the most original and audacious weird writers of her generation” (Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, The Weird), “one of our essential writers of dark fiction” (New York Times), and S. T. Joshi has proclaimed, “hers is now the voice of weird fiction.”...
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction &amp Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color.

Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer...
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories
AuthorVandana Singh
Well known and well regarded in the world of science fiction and fantasy writing, Vandana Singh brings her unique imagination to a wider audience in this collection of stories, newly reissued by Zubaan Books. In the title story, a woman tells her husband of her curious discovery: that she is inhabited...
Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories
AuthorElizabeth Hand
ISBN1595820965
Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists. This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive author at the height of her powers. Included...
Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter's Tales
AuthorGreer Gilman
ISBN1931520550
I am wind and memory who spells this . . . Gilman’s second novel, Cloud & Ashes, is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic Joycean fable that will invite immersion, study, revisitation, and delight. To step into her world is to witness the bright flashes, witty turns, and shadowy...
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...
Travel Light
AuthorNaomi Mitchison
ISBN1931520143
Ever wanted a Tolkeinesque saga with a female lead? Look no further this is it, and from someone close to Tolkein who proof read Lord of the Rings before it was published. This was published in 1952, before Lord of the Rings in 1954.
This really ought to stand alongside The Hobbit and Harry Potter and...
Filter House
AuthorNisi Shawl
ISBN1933500190
Filter House collects fourteen stories by Nisi Shawl, with an introduction by Eileen Gunn (author of Stable Strategies). The collection offers a haunting montage that works its magic subtly on the reader's subconscious. As Karen Joy Fowler, Author of The Jane Austen Book Club says, ''This lovely...
The Best of Michael Swanwick
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN1596061782
It's here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid and far-ranging...
Meet Me in the Moon Room
AuthorRay Vukcevich
ISBN1931520011
* Philip K. Dick Award finalist* Locus Recommended Reading Here are 33 weird, wonderful stories concerning men, women, teleportation, wind-up cats, and brown paper bags. By turns whimsical and unsettling—frequently managing to be both—these short fictions describe family relationships,...
Map of Dreams
AuthorM. Rickert
ISBN1930846444
Set in a reality where nightmares do not fade upon waking, this anthology skims along the surface of life and dips just beneath, revealing the hidden machinations that fuel dreams. These underlying myths and fantasies exist not as musty old stories but as ancient truths that have come to illuminate...
Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories
AuthorMaureen F. McHugh
ISBN1931520194
In her debut collection, Maureen F. McHugh examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations.

Contents:
Ancestor...
The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories
AuthorJoan Aiken
ISBN1931520747
Joan Aiken's stories captivated readers for fifty years. They're funny, smart, gentle, and occasionally very, very scary. The stories in The Monkey's Wedding are collected here for the very first time and include six never before published, as well as two previously published under the pseudonym...
The Fate of Mice
AuthorSusan Palwick
ISBN1892391422
Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick's twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless...
Impossible Stories
AuthorZoran Živković
ISBN1904619657
Impossible Stories I is a collection of several of the author's finest works, including Time Gifts, Impossible Encounters, Seven Touches of Music, The Library (winner of the World Fantasy Award), and Steps through the Mist. The perfect introduction to the incredible world of Zoran Zivković.



Impossible...
The Ant King, and Other Stories
AuthorBenjamin Rosenbaum
ISBN1931520526
Urbane without being arch, sweet without being maudlin, mysterious without being cryptic.-Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron's zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms...
The Word Book
AuthorMieko Kanai
ISBN1564785661
Like the surfaces of a jagged crystal, each story in this collection shows an entirely different facet when viewed from a different angle. Playing games with the basic units of both life and fiction—the solid certainties of the self, the world around us, and the words we use to describe these things...
The Apex Book of World SF
AuthorLavie Tidhar
ISBN0982159633
The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells...
Secret Life
AuthorJeff VanderMeer
ISBN0809556529
Secret Life is the definitive collection by a young writer widely regarded as one of the best fantasists in the world. Jeff VanderMeer has handpicked these 23 stories (three written exclusively for this collection), which reflect a diversity of approaches to key questions about the human condition:...
The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy (Dedalus Literary Fantasy Anthologies)
AuthorJohanna Sinisalo
Highly praised anthology of 100 years of Finnish literary fantasy. The latest volume in the Dedalus European fantasy series, this anthology of short stories includes a wide range of texts covering the period from nineteenth century until today. The richness and diversity of the stories reflects...
Crackpot Palace
AuthorJeffrey Ford
ISBN0062122592
Eclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work of the phenomenal Jeffrey Ford—along with imaginative, provocative, mesmerizing, and brilliant. His powerful dark fantasy, The Physiognomy, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; his novel, The Girl in the Glass, won...
The Entropy of Bones
AuthorAyize Jama-Everett
ISBN1618731033
Chabi doesn’t realize her martial arts master may not be on the side of the gods. She does know he’s changed her from being an almost invisible kid to one that anyone — or at least anyone smart — should pay attention to. But attention from the wrong people can mean more trouble than even she can handle....
Academic Exercises
AuthorK.J. Parker
ISBN1596066091
Academic Exercises is the first collection of shorter work by master novelist K.J. Parker, and it is a stunner. Weighing in at over 500 pages, this generous volume gathers together thirteen highly distinctive stories, essays, and novellas, including the recent World Fantasy Award-Winner, “Let...
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