Mother, Crone, Maiden
10 best books like Mother, Crone, Maiden (Cat Hellisen): Magic for Liars, The Raven and the Reindeer, The Canterville Ghost, Gideon the Ninth, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Desdemona and the Deep, Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue, Old Media, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth, The Department of Alterations
Magic for Liars
| Author | Sarah Gailey |
The Raven and the Reindeer
| Author | T. Kingfisher |
The Canterville Ghost
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0744549515 |
Seriously...how does one not love on Oscar Wilde when he's throwing down the snarky...in this case, and in proper British fashion, against cocky, adolescent-cultured Americans and their starched-lip, tradition-trapped English cousins?
A...
Gideon the Ninth
| Author | Tamsyn Muir |
| ISBN | 1250313198 |
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.
Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| Author | Jenny Odell |
| ISBN | 1612197493 |
When the technologies we use every day collapse...
Desdemona and the Deep
| Author | C.S.E. Cooney |
| Author | Wendy N. Wagner |
Funded as a stretch goal of our sister-magazine LIGHTSPEED's Queers Destroy Science...
Old Media
| Author | Annalee Newitz |
| ISBN | 1250231140 |
John was definitely one of the better, more interesting, complex characters from that book and I was happy...
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
| Author | Daryl Gregory |
| ISBN | 1250209455 |
| Author | Gennifer Albin |
| ISBN | 1466829567 |
The women of Arras are expected to fall into assigned roles, serve as loving wives, and provide healthy children into the world's tapestry. But perfection...
| Author | Emmy Laybourne |
| ISBN | 1466819634 |
At first, Dr. James Cutlass had thought his new job at NORAD was thrilling and full of opportunities, but that was before the demonstration… “Dress...
AI and the Trolley Problem
| Author | Pat Cadigan |
| ISBN | 1250316251 |
“Machine logic can be tricky,” Helen said. “Especially when you’re not a machine.”
i liked this one a lot, although it does make me itch for more. a lot more. which is probably the sign of a successful story, right? honestly, i don't have it in me this morning to write a proper...
A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star
| Author | Kathleen Ann Goonan |
| ISBN | 1466874554 |
This was an enjoyable enough little story if a bit light. Although the plot focusses on Carol and on her struggles to become a scientist, I have to admit that I was much more interested by Carol's dad. I wanted to read more about his experience during and after the war. I wanted...
The Madonna of the Abattoir
| Author | Anne M. Pillsworth |
| ISBN | 1466868937 |
If not to feel guilt is to be blameless, then she had approached perfect innocence in life and achieved it when death had stripped away what little capacity for remorse had ever adulterated her hungry soul. The resurrection that our Master’s Communion allows had left her all wolf, and a...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 100
| Author | Neil Clarke |
“Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight” by Aliette de Bodard
“A Universal Elegy” by Tang Fei, translated by John Chu
“Cat Pictures Please” by Naomi Kritzer
“The Apartment Dweller's Bestiary” by Kij Johnson
“Ether” by Zhang Ran, translated by Carmen...
Adult Children of Alien Beings
| Author | Dennis Danvers |
| ISBN | 1466889691 |
Sometimes I just don’t understand people.
I drop back into Park. Dad said that all the time. I can hear him saying it. It was like the chorus of my childhood. Like he really meant it, felt...
Loss of Signal
| Author | S.B. Divya |
| ISBN | 1250306671 |
The Devil in the Details
| Author | Debra Doyle |
A new adventure of Peter Crossman, special agent of the Knights Templar—a man prepared to administer last rites with one hand while wielding a flamethrower with the other. Now an ancient manuscript of peculiar...