Saucer Country Vol. 1: Run
10 best books like Saucer Country Vol. 1: Run (Paul Cornell): Digger, Volume One, Astro City, Vol. 10: Victory, Proof, Volume 1: Goatsucker, Grandville Bête Noire, Chicks Dig Comics: A Celebration of Comic Books by the Women Who Love Them, Womanthology: Heroic, The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey, The Boy Who Cast No Shadow, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 71 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #71), The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature
| Author | Ursula Vernon |
| ISBN | 0976921227 |
"Digger is a story about a wombat. More specifically, it is a story about a particularly no-nonsense wombat who finds herself stuck on the wrong end of a one-way tunnel in a strange land where nonsense seems to be the specialty. Now with the help of a talking statue of a god, an outcast hyena, a shadow-being...
| Author | Kurt Busiek |
| ISBN | 1401250572 |
A major new epic begins featuring Winged Victory, Samaritan, and the Confessor, three of Astro City's most popular heroes. When criminal charges are brought against Winged Victory, the Confessor must investigate and it leads to open combat with Samaritan! Can Astro City's three greatest heroes...
| Author | Alex Grecian |
| ISBN | 1582409943 |
This is a world where fairies, dwarfs and bigfoot are real. The artwork is mediocre, but the real focus is on something like an X-Files setting with creatures that in the real world are myth or fabrication. Plenty of threads are opened in the first arc, so it might seem intimidating at first, but it's likely...
| Author | Bryan Talbot |
| ISBN | 1595828907 |
The baffling murder of a famed Parisian artist in his locked and guarded studio takes the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sargent Ratzi, into the cut-throat Grandville art scene to track the mysterious assassin. As the body count mounts...
| Author | Lynne M. Thomas |
| ISBN | 1935234056 |
In Chicks Dig Comics, editors Lynne M. Thomas (Hugo-Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords) and Sigrid Ellis bring together essays by award-winning writers and artists who celebrate the comics medium and its creators, and who examine the characters and series that they love. Gail Simone (Birds of Prey)...
| Author | Bonnie Burton |
| ISBN | 1613771479 |
Womanthology is a large scale anthology comic showcasing the works of women in comics. It is created entirely by over 150 women of all experience levels. The purpose of the book is to show support for female creators in comics and media. There are multiple short stories, "how to"s & interviews with...
The rollicking true story of the legendary writer and editor who ruled over America’s fantasy and supernatural pulp journals in the mid-twentieth century, and shaped today’s UFO and sci-fi cultures: Ray Palmer.
Meet Ray Palmer. A hustler, a trickster, and a visionary. The hunchbacked...
| 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 | Edward James |
| ISBN | 0521728738 |
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has...
| Author | Jim Zub |
| ISBN | 1607064421 |
The two mercenary morons are back and this time they''re taking their boisterous brand of brutish bloodshed to the big city. By the time this adventure wraps up they''ll battle a den of thieves, a monster fight pit, alleyways of danger, nobility, stupidity, dinner parties, and bloodthirsty faerie...
| Author | Andy Diggle |
| ISBN | 1401211585 |
New York Times bestselling-author Andy Diggle creates a tale of the FBI’s manhunt for a peerless assassin who specializes in silencing mob informants hidden deep within the Witness Protection Program.But the Rat Catcher has finally slipped up — and one washed-up FBI agent has one last chance...
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 1401234801 |
In this stylized book of mystery and science fiction, a drug-dealing car thief must discover the secret behind his visions in order to save the world. Twenty years after the devastating Cataclysm, society has been separated into sectors in which the rich are able to enjoy machine-generated weather...
| Author | Mike Carey |
| ISBN | 1401235603 |
In this volume, Tom Taylor goes to war against the cabal that has tormented, imprisoned and tried to destroy him. To have a hope of winning, Tom must use every weapon he can get hold of, but even storybook magic carries its own risks. Tom's crusade plays out against the backdrop of the cabal's sinister secret...
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 1401240305 |
After witnessing the demise of most of her StormWatch teammates, Jenny Sparks wants to create a new super hero team dedicated to protecting Earth against threats of a global scale. Joined by former StormWatch members Jack Hawksmoor and Shen Li-Min, Jenny recruits four new members, the Doctor, the...
| Author | Brian Azzarello |
| ISBN | 1401235522 |
Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso – the Eisner Award-winning creators of 100 BULLETS – return to Vertigo with their new interstellar mystery SPACEMAN, collected here in DC’s Deluxe format.
SPACEMAN tells the story of Orson, a hulking, lonely loser who spends his days collecting scrap...
| Author | Jonathan Hickman |
| ISBN | 1607067269 |
Three stars? Maybe?
I don't really know here.
On one hand, this is a nice follow-up to the opening volume.
It continues the plot and character development for all the varied story arcs, and adds new complications and elements to the world.
If I had to explain this series,...
Brian Wood (DMZ, DEMO, DV8) wraps up his critically acclaimed Vertigo series here in "The Icelandic Trilogy."In this final chapter, NORTHLANDERS weaves together the decades-spanning crime drama of the Hauksson clan. Beginning with a young Ulf Hauksson taking over his clan's settlement in a new...
| Author | Jason Aaron |
| ISBN | 1401237347 |
Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of poverty and hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservationin search of something better.
Now he's come back home armed with nothing but a set of nunchucks, a hell-bent-for leather attitude and one dark secret, to find...
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1934964891 |
From Eisner Award-winning writer Greg Rucka and acclaimed artist Matthew Southworth comes a new Stumptown mystery! Dex Parios has finally opened her own office, and her first case is to find rock star Mim Bracca's baby - her prized guitar - which disappeared after her band Tailhook's Portland show....
| Author | Dylan Meconis |
| ISBN | 0988220202 |
Nobody expects the French Revolution, especially not the hapless vampires of Paris. Can genteel Lucien, murderous Ginevra, flaky sire Audric, crabby werewolf Luther, and the new vamp/ex-tavern wench Claire rescue their coven from a crazed revolutionary and avoid a date with Madame Guillotine?
This...
133 Weird Tales-era works of horror, science fiction and fantasy have been gathered here into one volume, all written by Clark Ashton Smith, who was the third member of the literary circle that included authors Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft. Excluding only fragmentary notes, excerpts and synopses...
Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who
| Author | Deborah Stanish |
| ISBN | 1935234129 |
The sister book to the 2011 Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords...
In Chicks Unravel Time, editors Deborah Stanish (Whedonistas) and L.M. Myles bring together a host of award-winning female writers, media professionals and scientists to examine each season of new and classicDoctor...
