Open Letter to Quiet Light
10 best books like Open Letter to Quiet Light (Francesca Lia Block): Yukikaze, The Carbon Diaries 2017, Lychee Light Club, The Beautiful: Collected Poems, Hybrid Child, Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy, Sabella, or, The Bloodstone, Loups-Garous, Evidence of Angels, Blood Sugar
| Author | Chōhei Kambayashi |
| ISBN | 1421532557 |
A military scifi classic, by one of the modern masters of world science fiction.
A military scifi classic, by one of the modern masters of world science fiction. Reads L to R (Western Style).
More than thirty years ago, a hyper-dimensional passageway suddenly appeared over the continent...
| Author | Saci Lloyd |
| ISBN | 0340970162 |
[3.5] This is pretty much spot on about the scale of the refugee crisis in real 2017 (esp if you also consider the hardline policies of Australia in the mix) - except that volunteers seeking to help refugees in Southern Europe aren't regarded as such a problem, and she missed the phenomenon of right wing...
| Author | Usamaru Furuya |
| ISBN | 1935654063 |
The Lychee Light Club is considered Usamaru Furuya's breakthrough work. Originally designed as an experiemental project Lychee's themes of youthful rebellion and deus ex machina destruction, and attractive designs eventually won over a new generation of readers and critics, leading the way for...
The Beautiful: Collected Poems
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| ISBN | 0916397890 |
“Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism.”—The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Before penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published...
| Author | Shungiku Nakamura |
| ISBN | 1569709025 |
The Hybrid Child is an amazing android that can grow if it is lavished with enough love and care from its owner. Neither fully machine nor fully human, the various Hybrid Child models develop strong emotional bonds with their owners. This volume contains several short stories of love, sacrifice and...
| Author | Sharyn November |
| ISBN | 0142405493 |
This is going to be a bit of a cheat review because I’ve acknowledged to myself that the only reason I checked out this anthology was to read the Joss and Mavkel story The Real Thing by Alison Goodman. I may choose to keep renewing this thing like a jerk so I can keep it and read the Kelly Link or Tamora Pierce...
Sabella, or, The Bloodstone
| Author | Tanith Lee |
| ISBN | 0879975296 |
DRACULA?
A mere figment of superstition, a thing that could not exist.
SABELLA?
A very real person, an enticing girl of flesh and warmth - who detested the sunlight, who required the blood of young men to feed upon, who was all that Dracula was said to be except never one of the "undead." Sabella...
| Author | Natsuhiko Kyogoku |
| ISBN | 1421532336 |
In the near future, humans will communicate almost exclusively through online networks - face-to-face meetings are rare and the surveillance state nearly all-powerful. Even school children are only allowed to meet in the flesh on school grounds. So when a serial killer starts slaughtering students,...
| Author | Suza Scalora |
| ISBN | 0061243434 |
I don’t normally review non-fiction, but when emailed by Suza Scalora asking if I would like to review Evidence of Angels, I thought I would give it a go. As I have an idea for my own fictional story regarding angels, Evidence of Angels is classed as research.
This review is going to be a little...
| Author | Nicole Blackman |
| ISBN | 1888451343 |
Never liked poetry. Actually, I despised it. Ignored it. Then a few things happened in my life, I started to really listen to music and it`s lyrics and discovered Charles Bukowski and Nicole Blackman. They touched me. She touched me in places that I am afraid to reveal. Her hand penetrated my skull and...
| Author | Charles Simic |
| ISBN | 0156421828 |
In this volume, Simic fills the wee hours of his poetry with angels and pigs, riddles and cemeteries. His is a rich, haunted world of East European memory and american present-a world of his own creation, one always full of luminous surprise. “Simic writes so simply that his words fall like drops of...
| Author | Amy Ehrlich |
| ISBN | 0763610348 |
Perfect for literature classes and beginning writers of all ages!
"Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Now ten award-winning writers: Mary Pope Osborne, Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr,...
40 Watts from Nowhere : A Journey into Pirate Radio
| Author | Sue Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0743229886 |
When law office receptionist Sue Carpenter first asked how she might start her own radio station, everyone laughed. Getting on the air (legitimately) in San Francisco was a multimillion-dollar ambition. But in 1995, with the help of a few subversive techies and pirate-radio gurus, Sue built her first...
| Author | Catherynne M. Valente |
| ISBN | 0809500450 |
The Oracles of the ancient world spoke for the gods, they spoke for the future: but they could not speak for themselves. Here, their voices bubble up from the depths, enraged and sardonic, sorrowing and wild, finding themselves on new ground -- scattered across the American continent, marking a path...
| Author | Natsume Ono |
| ISBN | 1421532506 |
At the age of 21, Nicoletta travels to Rome to find her mother, Olga, who abandoned her long ago. Nicoletta finds her at Casetta dell'Orso, a charming little restaurant owned by Olga's husband. The staff of bespectacled gentlemen welcomes Nicoletta warmly, but Olga's reception is not so pleasant....
| Author | Tsukasa Fushimi |
| ISBN | 1595829563 |
High-school student Kyousuke doesn't get along with his cranky, dismissive, and secretive fourteen-year-old litter sister Kirino, but he suddenly finds himself forced to protect Kirino's secrets--she's not only a gorgeous fashion model, a track star, and an accomplished student, but she's also...
Inside Joss' Dollhouse: From Alpha to Rossum
| Author | Jane Espenson |
| ISBN | 1935251988 |
Though Joss Whedon’s television show Dollhouse ended in January 2010 after its second season, its small but devoted cult following is still reeling from not only from its mind-blowing plot twists but also its challenging, dystopic look at the ethics of new technology.
Inside Joss' Dollhouse...
Afterschool Charisma, Vol. 2
| Author | Kumiko Suekane |
| ISBN | 1421533987 |
St. Kleio Academy is a very exclusive school. To enroll, a student must be the clone of a famous historical figure. Wolfgang Mozart, Queen Elizabeth, Sigmund Freud, Marie Curie, Adolf Hitler—with such a combustible student body, it's only a matter of time before the campus explodes!
JOAN...
| Author | Tom Mandrake |
| ISBN | 1401224911 |
FBI Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant scientist Walter Bishop and his estranged son Peter investigate the world of "fringe science"(telepathy, time travel etc) following a series of unexplained events, which begin to raise suspicions that a large scientific research company Massive Dynamic is experimenting...
Tegami Bachi, Vol. 3: Letter Bee
| Author | Hiroyuki Asada |
| ISBN | 1421529513 |
In a land of perpetual night, your heart is your light.
Reads R to L (Japanese Style). In a land of perpetual night, your heart is your light.
Meeting Sylvette SuedeLag almost breaks the record time on his Letter Bee test, securing a job as a Letter Bee! But his celebration ends with unwelcome...
| Author | Housuke Nojiri |
| ISBN | 1421527715 |
The mysterious Builders have brought humanity to the edge of extinction; can they be reasoned with, or must they be destroyed? Aki Shiraishi is a high school student working in the astronomy club and one of the few witnesses to an amazing event: someone is building a tower on the planet Mercury. Soon,...
| Author | Macaulay Culkin |
| ISBN | 1401360181 |
It's a joke, anyone who can relate to a single page of it will see that. I believe what he writes, but he thinks it's ridiculous that people will buy it. He says that the only reason anyone would consider reading this book is because he is famous and that is why it got published at all. He's telling you not to...
| Author | Ai Ninomiya |
| ISBN | 3842001525 |
Alice, ein junger Mann, der sich unbeabsichtigt ins Wunderland verirrt und seine Freiheit in einem Spiel zurückgewinnen muss, setzt sein Abenteuer in der reichlich bizarren Welt fort. Dabei müssen er und seine sonderbaren Gefährten sich diesmal etwas einfallen lassen: Der Graf, ein gigantisches...
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 12
| Author | Yoshiyuki Sadamoto |
| ISBN | 1421538598 |
Reads R to L (Japanese Style) T+ audience. Japan's most controversial anime series is over...but not the manga version of Neon Genesis Evangelion! Series co-creator Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's personal interpretation of the Evangelion characters and story is sure to intrigue new and old fans alike. In...
