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10 best books like Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue (Wendy N. Wagner): Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, That Game We Played During the War, A Kiss With Teeth, The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere, Into the Gray, The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections, Old Media, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The May/June 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Seanan McGuire, Kat Howard, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, and Haralambi Markov, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Foz Meadows, Tanya DePass, Sarah Monette, and Stephanie Zvan, poetry by Beth Cato, M. Sereno, and...
A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers
AuthorAlyssa Wong
The day my sister ended the world, the sky opened up in rain for the first time in years, flooding the desert wash behind our house. The snakes drowned in their holes and the javelinas stampeded downstream, but the water overtook them, and the air filled with their screaming as they were swept away.

this...
That Game We Played During the War
AuthorCarrie Vaughn
ISBN0765389355
The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war for decades, but now peace has fallen, and Calla of Enith seeks to renew an unlikely friendship with Gaantish officer Valk over an even more unlikely game of chess, in Carrie Vaughn's novella That Game We Played...
A Kiss With Teeth
AuthorMax Gladstone
I'm upping my rating from 4.5 stars to 5 stars on rereading this Tor.com online freebie. I love this story! Vlad the vampire is married to a human (in fact, the woman who was originally hunting him down!). They have a young son, and Vlad tries to live like a regular human, denying his darker self and powers....
The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere
AuthorJohn Chu
ISBN1466838116
In the near future water falls from the sky whenever someone lies (either a mist or a torrential flood depending on the intensity of the lie). This makes life difficult for Matt as he maneuvers the marriage question with his lover and how best to "come out" to his traditional Chinese parents.

This...
Into the Gray
AuthorMargaret Killjoy
ISBN1250198178


“I know a better place than your room at the inn,” I said.

“If you’re not a working girl, there’s no shame to be seen with you.”

“I know a place, a better place, where the wind runs cool off the water. Where I can rinse, where you can rinse, where we’d taste our best...
The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
AuthorTina Connolly
ISBN1250296994
Nebula nominee for best novelette in 2018! 4.5 stars for this excellent Tor fantasy story, free online here at Tor.com. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Saffron is one of the official food tasters for Duke Michal, the regent for an infant prince. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind...
Old Media
AuthorAnnalee Newitz
ISBN1250231140
I was actually pretty excited when I recognized the characters in this story from Autonomous. We have John and Med and it sounds like this is set a year or two after the events of Autonomous.

John was definitely one of the better, more interesting, complex characters from that book and I was happy...
Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
AuthorJason Sizemore
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

EDITORIAL
Words from the Editor-in-Chief—Jason Sizemore
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Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
AuthorDaryl Gregory
ISBN1250209455
When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion--or something else entirely. How much time do we have left, and do we even understand what timescale to use? As a slow apocalypse blooms across the Earth, planets and plants, animals and microbes, all live...
Uncanny Magazine Issue 18: September/October 2017
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The September/October 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by N.K. Jemisin, Fran Wilde, C. S. E. Cooney, Catherynne M. Valente, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Delia Sherman, reprinted fiction by Malinda Lo, essays by Sophie Aldred, Cecilia Tan, Sarah Kuhn,...
Jackalope Wives
AuthorUrsula Vernon
Ursula Vernon is a freelance writer, artist and illustrator. She is best known for the webcomic Digger and the children's books Dragonbreath and Nurk: The Strange, Surprising Adventures of a (Somewhat) Brave Shrew. Ursula is also a prolific painter and the creator of the Biting Pear of Salamanca,...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 100
AuthorNeil Clarke
FICTION
“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...
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