Redwood and Wildfire

10 best books like Redwood and Wildfire (Andrea Hairston): An Unkindness of Ghosts, Brown Girl in the Ring, The Book of Speculation, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story, Wild Seed, Patternmaster, The Raven Tower, Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, The Waking Land, Clay's Ark

An Unkindness of Ghosts
AuthorRivers Solomon
ISBN1617755885
Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until...
Brown Girl in the Ring
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
ISBN0446674338
The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways--farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman...
The Book of Speculation
AuthorErika Swyler
A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who is sent a mysterious old book, inscribed with his grandmother's name. What is the book's connection to his family?

Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the...
The Strange Bird: A Borne Story
AuthorJeff VanderMeer
The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, Borne. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory—she is part bird, part human, part...
Wild Seed
AuthorOctavia E. Butler
ISBN0446676977
“Recently, however, I began to suspect that calling myself a science fiction critic without having read anything by Octavia Butler bordered on the fraudulent.”
“Books to Look For” - Orson Scott Card

I have to thank OSC for the above-mentioned article (from 1990) which piqued...
Patternmaster
AuthorOctavia E. Butler
ISBN0446362816
The combined mind-force of a telepathic race, Patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the strongest mind commands the entire pattern and all within. Now the son of the Patternmaster craves this ultimate power, He has murdered or enslaved every threat to his ambition--except one. In the wild,...
The Raven Tower
AuthorAnn Leckie
ISBN0356506991
Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this breathtaking first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.

For centuries, the kingdom...
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water
AuthorVylar Kaftan
All Bee has ever known is darkness.

She doesn’t remember the crime she committed that landed her in the cold, twisting caverns of the prison planet Colel-Cab with only fellow prisoner Chela for company. Chela says that they’re telepaths and mass-murderers; that they belong here, too...
The Waking Land
AuthorCallie Bates
ISBN0425284026
Lady Elanna Valtai is fiercely devoted to the King who raised her like a daughter. But when he dies under mysterious circumstances, Elanna is accused of his murder and must flee for her life.

Returning to the homeland of magical legends she has forsaken, Elanna is forced to reckon with her despised,...
Clay's Ark
AuthorOctavia E. Butler
ISBN0446603708
An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world being born in the Californian desert.

They discover Earth has been invaded by an alien microorganism. The deadly entity attacks like a virus, but survivors of the disease genetically bond with...
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