Polynia
10 best books like Polynia (China Miéville): Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome, Sleeper, Elephants and Corpses, Old Media, The Boy Who Cast No Shadow, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 71 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #71), Come See the Living Dryad, We Interrupt This Broadcast, The Best of Subterranean, The Angelus Guns
Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome
Author | John Scalzi |
ISBN | 1466871792 |
A new near-future science fiction novella by John Scalzi, one of the most popular authors in modern SF. Unlocked traces the medical history behind a virus that will sweep the globe and affect the majority of the world’s population, setting the stage for Lock In, the next major novel by John Scalzi.
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Author | Jo Walton |
ISBN | 1466880392 |
Let us say that the entity believing himself to be Matthew Corley feels that he regained consciousness while reading an article in the newspaper about the computer replication of personalities of the dead. He believes that it is 1994, the year of his death, that he regained consciousness after...
Bodies are only beautiful when they aren’t yours.
another fine, free tor short. these things are great because they allow you to sample authors completely risk-free! because it takes a special kind of author to be able to pull off a story whose concept revolves around a "corpse-jumping body...
Author | Annalee Newitz |
ISBN | 1250231140 |
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...
Author | Thomas Olde Heuvelt |
Free ebook download (epub & mobi).
AN ETALE by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Two male teenagers with peculiar bodies...
The Boy Who Cast No Shadow won the prestigious Paul Harland Award for best Dutch story of the Fantastic in 2010. Mr. Olde Heuvelt tells us he wrote it in a four-day...
FICTION
“Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson
“Honey Bear” by Sofia Samatar
“Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente
NON-FICTION
“The Spell of History: Magic Systems and Real-World Zeitgeists” by Jeff Seymour
“In a Carapace of Light: A Conversation with...
Author | Theodora Goss |
ISBN | 0765395673 |
I am improbable, am I not?
Almost, but not quite, impossible.
theodora goss won my heart with the stunning free tor short Red as Blood and White as Bone, and after giving me something so perfectly perfect, it would have taken a complete dud to mar my high opinion of her. fortunately,...
We Interrupt This Broadcast
Author | Mary Robinette Kowal |
3.5 stars for this prequel to Mary Robinette Kowal's SF novel, The Calculating Stars. This short story is free online here at the author's website. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:
The LADY ASTRONAUT series is an alternative history SF series in which a huge meteorite has destroyed...
From its launch in 2005 to its final issue in 2014, Subterranean magazine published stories by the leading lights of science fiction and fantasy literature. From Hugo and Nebula winners to Pulitzer and Booker Prize finalists to New York Times bestsellers, this anthology collects 30 pieces of Subterranean’s...
Author | Max Gladstone |
ISBN | 1466878827 |
g, is for Gladstone.
4 Stars
What if all our work only builds a world in which we are impossible? What if we only exist now because we didn’t? What if time needs pain as much as harmony?
My brother is the only person I can honestly say that I hate and love in equal measure....
i do love stories like this - stories that take a well-known work as their foundation and then poke around in it to locate the parts of the story that stick out in our minds as unfinished or unexplored. where the heck did heathcliff go for those three years? what were bertha and miss havisham like before all...