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Star Songs of An Old Primate

9 best books like Star Songs of An Old Primate (James Tiptree Jr.): Amelia Westlake, Magic for Beginners, Unfettered, Man-Eaters, Vol. 1, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Hugo Winners 1955-1961, The Bear, The Verdant Passage

Amelia Westlake
AuthorErin Gough
ISBN1760127159
Two very different girls, and one giant hoax that could change – or ruin – everything.

Harriet Price has the perfect life: she's a prefect at Rosemead Grammar, she lives in a mansion, and her gorgeous girlfriend is a future prime minister. So when she risks it all by creating a hoax to...
Magic for Beginners
AuthorKelly Link
ISBN0156031876
The nine stories in Link's second collection are the spitting image of those in her acclaimed debut, Stranger Things Happen: effervescent blends of quirky humor and pathos that transform stock themes of genre fiction into the stuff of delicate lyrical fantasy. In "Stone Animals," a house's haunting...
Unfettered
AuthorShawn Speakman
ISBN0984713638
You define life or it defines you.

In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both.

Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hogdkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author...
Man-Eaters, Vol. 1
AuthorChelsea Cain
ISBN1534311432
After the brilliant but short-lived run on Marvel's Mockingbird I was ready to read anything else by Chelsea Cain, so I was really happy when Man-Eaters by her and Kate Niemczyk was announced. This is a comic with an absolutely bonkers premise — what if a mutated version of Toxoplasmosis caused certain...
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
AuthorTed Chiang
ISBN1596061006
In medieval Baghdad, a penniless man is brought before the most powerful man in the world, the caliph himself, to tell his story. It begins with a walk in the bazaar, but soon grows into a tale unlike any other told in the caliph's empire. It's a story that includes not just buried treasure and a band of thieves,...
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
AuthorTom Shippey
ISBN0192803816
This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre -- science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered...
The Hugo Winners 1955-1961
AuthorIsaac Asimov
ISBN0449239179
Nine award-winning stories for the years 1955 to 1961, each with an introduction by Isaac Asimov. —

Contents:

— 1955: 13th Convention, Cleveland — 1- The Darfsteller by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (novelette) — 2- Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russel (short story)

— 1956:...
The Bear
AuthorAndrew Krivak
ISBN1942658702
From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants and a girl’s journey home.

In an Eden-like future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They own a few remnants of civilization:...
The Verdant Passage
AuthorTroy Denning
ISBN1560761210
A new creed kindled from despair...

Kalak: an immortal sorcerer-king whose evil magic has reduced the majestic city of Tyr to a desolate place of dust, blood, and fear.

His thousand-year reign of death is about to end.

Banding together to spark a revolution are a maverick...
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