Out on Blue Six

Author	Helen S. Wright
ISBN	0445209836

What a fabulous read. A space opera with a twisty SF based plot and loads of heart. Exciting and engaging--the worldbuilding isn't spoon fed so it takes a bit of time to get to grips but all becomes clear soon enough.

It's the cast that does it for me. The three MCs are two men in a queer relationship,...

Author	Laurie Penny
ISBN	0765388278

Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day's food and shelter. What kind of world have we made, where human beings can live centuries if only they can afford the fix? What kind of creatures have we become?...

Author	David Wingrove
ISBN	0440209285

Seven continents.  Seven Chinese kings.  A benevolent rule and a stable, sensual, high-tech society.  But the T'ang overlords no longer control all three hundred levels of City Earth.  Revolution is brewing.  As the all-powerful Seven plot the boldest imaginable counterstrike,...

Author	Katharine Kerr
ISBN	0553285041

Polar City Blues holds up very well for SF first published in 1990. Of course, I'm inclined to like tales mixing psychics, aliens, and murder mysteries. Kerr has built a universe which deliberately 'others' Caucasians, which succeeds reasonably well.

If I had a negative, it would be the use...

Author	Richard Grant
ISBN	0553343696

An astonishing odyssey is about to begin.

Gone are the wild grasses and rolling meadows. Gone too are the towering trees--except in one last forest in a forgotten corner of the world. Until something totally unexpected, remarkable, and frightening happens: The forest begins to grow. And...

Author	Gordon R. Dickson
ISBN	0879975520

The award-winning and much honored Gordon R. Dickson, author of the best-selling DORSAI books and many other praiseworthy novels and scince fiction stories, has selected nine of his finest tales in this book.
Here are stories of interstellar exploration, of adventure at the dawn of star flight...

Author	Elizabeth Hand
ISBN	0061053481

This is Elizabeth Hand's long-awaited collection of short stories, centered around her Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Last Summer at Mars Hill. There are 12 pieces in all here, ranging from those first published in places like Interzone and Pulphouse to a two-page poem taken from...

Author

Thomas M. Disch

Contents:
The Roaches (1965)
Come to Venus Melancholy (1965)
Linda and Daniel and Spike (1967)
Flight Useless, Inexorable the Pursuit (1968)
Descending (1964)
Nada (1964)
Now Is Forever (1964)
The Contest (1967)
The Empty Room (1967)
The Squirrel Cage...

Author	Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN	0879973730

'Winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Theodore Sturgeon has established his reputation as one of the most original and provocative of SF writers.

Here are nine masterpieces of imagination from the period of his finest creativity. Included are "The Pod in the Barrier", "The Other Celia",...

Author	Matthew Johnson
ISBN	1771481773

Keluarga: to move to a new village. Lunak: to search for something without finding it. Mencintai: to love for the last time.

Meet a guilt-ridden nurse who atones for her sins by joining her zombified patients in exile; a lone soldier standing guard on a desolate Arctic island against an invasion...

Author	Lucius Shepard
ISBN	0948893362

The Jaguar Hunter: Powerful, hallucinatory stories in exotic locales
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature
I try to avoid excessive praise unless it is truly deserved, but I can say this without hesitation - Lucius Shepard was one of the best SF short story writers of the 1980s. His prose,...

Author	Terrance Dicks
ISBN	0426202945

In the summer of 1966, thousands of young people are taking their holidays with Chameleon Tours. And not one of them is coming back.

When the TARDIS lands at Gatwick Airport the Doctor is drawn into a web of intrigue and deception. To add to his troubles, Polly mysteriously vanishes.

Or...

Author	Gordon Van Gelder
ISBN	1616961635

Fantasy & Science Fiction continues to showcase some of the most famous authors writing in any genre. The magazine jumpstarted the careers of bestselling authors such as Roger Zelazny, Bruce Sterling, and Jane Yolen and continues to champion bold new crossover talents including Paolo Bacigalupi...

Author	Rich Horton
ISBN	1607014289

This sixth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Yoon Ha Lee, James Patrick Kelly, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Carrie Vaughn, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld,...

Author	Jonathan Strahan
ISBN	1781083096

Science fiction and fantasy has never been more diverse or vibrant, and 2014 has provided a bountiful crop of extraordinary stories. These stories are about the future, worlds beyond our own, the realms of our imaginations and dreams but, more importantly, they are the stories of ourselves. Featuring...

Author	G.K. Chesterton
ISBN	0760773556

Contrary to first impressions, G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown is not senile, nor easily rattled. In fact, this village priest wanders into challenges that pale in comparison to the things he has heard through the screen of the confessional. For to hear Father Brown tell it, crime is a manifestation...

Author	Mercer Mayer
ISBN	0140546103

"A Boy, A Dog, A Frog, and a Friend" is a wordless picture book and depicts the adventures of a boy, a dog, a frog, and their encounters with a new friend, a turtle. This is the third "boy, dog, and frog" book, and features the three titular characters in an already established relationship. The book begins...

Author	Craig Shaw Gardner
ISBN	0441079504

It is summer and every once and awhile one needs the truly silly, comedic work of literature(?) by a parody expert like Craig Shaw Gardner to lighten the more serious literary works like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

I read the first of this trilogy some time ago, and have decided to finish...

Author	Nicole Kimberling
ISBN	1605048496

A little uncivil disobedience is good for the soul

Gaia Jones is on A-Ki space station for one reason, and it s not to ogle the hermaphroditic aliens. She s out to make a name for herself and her line of intoxicating human snacks. Not easy in A-Ki s tightly controlled society. Her task gets even more...