Somewhere Beneath Those Waves
10 best books like Somewhere Beneath Those Waves (Sarah Monette): Beijing Payback, Clockwork Heart, Ancient, Ancient, The Jack Vance Treasury, Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction, Filter House, Happily Ever After, Map of Dreams, Lightbringers and Rainmakers, The Fate of Mice
| Author | Daniel Nieh |
| ISBN | 0062886665 |
Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur—in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years.
Victor...
| Author | Dru Pagliassotti |
| ISBN | 0809572567 |
A steampunkish romantic fantasy set in Ondinium, a city that beats to the ticking of a clockwork heart. Taya, a metal-winged courier, can travel freely across the city's sectors and mingle indiscriminately among its castes. A daring mid-air rescue leads to involvement with two scions of an upperclass...
| Author | Kiini Ibura Salaam |
| ISBN | 1933500964 |
The stories in Kiini Ibura Salaam's debut collection, Ancient, Ancient, from feminist science fiction publisher Aqueduct Press, are imbued with the urgency and expansive scope of imagination that we've come to expect from the best of science fiction. Salaam takes us to distant places but makes them...
| Author | Jack Vance |
| ISBN | 1596060778 |
A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.
Nebula and World Fantasy Grand Master Jack Vance is one of the most admired and cherished writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world, and is one of the truly important and influential storytellers...
| Author | Lee Mandelo |
| ISBN | 1590210050 |
Speculative fiction is the literature of questions, of challenges and imagination, and what better to question than the ways in which gender and sexuality have been rigidly defined, partitioned off, put in little boxes? These seventeen stories explore the ways in which identity can go beyond binary...
| Author | Nisi Shawl |
| ISBN | 1933500190 |
Filter House collects fourteen stories by Nisi Shawl, with an introduction by Eileen Gunn (author of Stable Strategies). The collection offers a haunting montage that works its magic subtly on the reader's subconscious. As Karen Joy Fowler, Author of The Jane Austen Book Club says, ''This lovely...
| Author | John Klima |
| ISBN | 1597802204 |
Once Upon A Time...
...in the faraway land of Story, a Hugo-winning Editor realized that no one had collected together the fairy tales of the age, and that doorstopthick anthologies of modern fairy tales were sorely lacking...
And so the Editor ventured forth, wandering the land...
| Author | M. Rickert |
| ISBN | 1930846444 |
Set in a reality where nightmares do not fade upon waking, this anthology skims along the surface of life and dips just beneath, revealing the hidden machinations that fuel dreams. These underlying myths and fantasies exist not as musty old stories but as ancient truths that have come to illuminate...
I've been meaning to pick up Gilman ever since "Half-Made World" came out. A mash-up of the western and steampunk genres sounds fun, and I have heard good things about Gilman's work. So when I learned that this short story (novella?) shares the same setting of that longer work, I decided to start here and...
| Author | Susan Palwick |
| ISBN | 1892391422 |
Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick's twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless...
| Author | Hiromi Goto |
| ISBN | 0889952280 |
From the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canadian Region and was co-winner of the Canada Japan Book Award, The Kappa Child is the tale of four Japanese Canadian sisters struggling to escape the bonds of a...
| Author | Kage Baker |
| ISBN | 1596062509 |
Lady Beatrice was the proper British daughter of a proper British soldier, until tragedy struck and sent her home to walk the streets of early-Victorian London. But Lady Beatrice is no ordinary whore, and is soon recruited to join an underground establishment known as Nell Gwynne's. Nell Gwynne's...
Small Press newcomer, Paper Golem, debuts the first in a annual series of single author collections by brilliant new authors. EYES LIKE SKY AND COAL AND MOONLIGHT brings together twenty stories from the extraordinary talent of fantasy author Cat Rambo. Here are tales from seaport city of Tabat, both...
| Author | Maureen F. McHugh |
| ISBN | 0812524101 |
This book didn't grab me until page 126, but I'm so enamored with China Mountain Zhang and McHugh's short fiction that I kept plodding along anyway.
McHugh does a great job creating an interesting near-future science fiction world and immersing readers in her characters' lives. David and...
Most readers know Captain Nemo only as the enigmatic protagonist of Jules Verne’s classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But what if Nemo was a real man, whose actual life was more fantastic and adventurous than all the fictions it inspired?
Here is the tale of Andre Nemo, the man behind...
| Author | Yiftach Reicher Atir |
For readers of John Le Carré and viewers of Homeland, a slow-burning psychological spy-thriller by a former brigadier general of intelligence in the Israeli army
After attending her father’s funeral, former Mossad agent Rachel Goldschmitt empties her bank account and disappears....
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, our freedom -- even democracy itself
Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. Though until now it has remained mostly...
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
| Author | John Perkins |
| ISBN | 1626566747 |
Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages.
New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of...
