Strange Evil

Author	Steven Brust
ISBN	0812562615

It is 1849. Across Europe, the high tide of revolution has crested, leaving recrimination and betrayal in its wake. From the high councils of Prussia to the corridors of Parliament, the powers-that-be breathe sighs of relief. But the powers-that-be are hardly unified among themselves. Far from it...

On...

Author	Michael Swanwick
ISBN	0380972336

This is a very impressive and work of imagination, and while I've read better Swanwick, it's *still* Swanwick, and that means it's head-and-shoulders better than almost anything out there.

This novel gives the illusion that it might be a YA, with a lot of impressive and delightful adventure...

Author	Stefan Grabiński
ISBN	1873982259

Poland's strong Catholic faith engendered in its literature a lively awareness of the Devil and a love of the supernatural and the fantastic. These stories are explorations of the extreme in human behaviour, where the bizarre chills the spine, and few authors can match Grabinski's depiction of seething...

Author	Lucius Shepard
ISBN	0575077344

look inside, young soldier. look inside your fellow soldier, see the nothing there, see the nothing that has been put there as a reason why, see the nothing that has become a something, a reason for being a reason for acting a reason for dying. look inside your own self, young soldier. see the...

Author	Sandra McDonald
ISBN	1590210948

A writer of whimsy and passion, Sandra McDonald has collected her most evocative short fiction to offer readers in Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories. A beautiful adventuress from the ancient city of New Dalli sets off to reclaim her missing lover. What secrets does she hide beneath her silk skirts?...

Author	Thomas M. Disch
ISBN	0679418806

Since his work first began to appear in the early 1960s, Thomas Disch has proven himself, again and again, to be one of the most prodigiously talented novelist/playwright/poets of our time. In Newsweek he was saluted by Walter Clemons as "the most formidably gifted unfamous American writer." But in...

Author	William Morris
ISBN	0140433309

Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme...

Author	Mary Gentle
ISBN	0451451732

It is a nameless city somewhere between past and future, a mythic realm at the "heart of the world," where wicked Rat Lords have reduced all humankind to slaves, and god-daemons make the decision to end all existence. This energizes a compelling quest for survival, and prompts the powerful White Crow...

Author	Norman Spinrad
ISBN	0553252895

Lord of the Swastika - Like a thick layer of stinking hot asphalt poured out on a driveway, a thick layer of racism and jingoism coats every single page of this appalling novel spun from the cramped, warped mind of an upstart writer of science fiction, a scribbler by the name of Adolf Hitler....

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0812519051

I just finished the novella of this story in Dangerous Visions. This is truly and outstanding work of fiction as well as science-fiction. More social science-fiction than hard it tells the wonderful story of a welfare state taken to its logical conclusions based on technological advances well within...

Author	Lisa Goldstein
ISBN	0553050907

I can’t remember how I found out about this novel, presumably a list of recommendations somewhere? The combination of surrealists, dreams, time travel, and revolution had obvious appeal and the library didn't have it, so I bought a cheap copy off eBay. Unfortunately I think it had been stored in a...

Author

Lavie Tidhar

An expedition to an alien planet; Lenin rising from the dead; a superhero so secret he does not exist. In The Apex Book of World SF 2, World Fantasy Award nominated editor Lavie Tidhar brings together a unique collection of stories from around the world. Quiet horror from Cuba and Australia; surrealist...

Author	M. John Harrison
ISBN	0441865704

This fourth and last volume of the sequence is not a novel, but rather a series of melancholy mood pieces--Schumann's "Night Pieces" come to mind--in which the ill-fated inhabitants of many versions of Viriconium engage in inconclusive quests and rescues while the city that sustains their imaginative...

Author

Eugène Sue

To find Dagny found it! http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3350



Opening: The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America—the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's...

Author	Michael Moorcock
ISBN	1565041933

This series of stories was written in the dark days of declining Britain before the countries of Europe took mercy upon that wild and lonely Goddess and invited her in off her storm tossed Atlantic rock into the EEC.

In this future, unity has failed, Europe is a patchwork of tiny, frequently warring...

Author	Alexandr Bogdanov
ISBN	0253203171

[A] surprisingly moving story." --The New Yorker

Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it." --Slavic Review

Bogdanov's imaginative predictions for...

Author	Max Ernst
ISBN	0486232522

“One of the clandestine classics of our century.” —The New York Times

This is the legendary collage masterpieces of Max Ernst (b. 1891), one of the leading figures of the surrealistic movement and among the most original artists of the 20th century. From old catalog and pulp novel illustrations,...

Author	Octavia E. Butler
ISBN	0451086732

Know Thy Enemy

They fled from an Earth ravaged by plague and violence, seeking to fulfill their holy mission -- to discover a new home for humanity. But instead of landing in a peace-filled paradise, Earth's Missionaries find themselves caught between two warring civilizations -- the Garkohn...

Author	Jonathan Strahan
ISBN	1597803456

The science fiction and fantasy fields continue to evolve, setting new marks with each passing year. For the sixth year in a row, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan has collected stories to captivate, entertain, and showcase the very best the genre has to offer. Critically acclaimed, and with a reputation...

Author	Rich Horton
ISBN	1607013444

From the publisher's web site: This fourth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, Kij Johnson, Kelly Link, Paul McAuley, RJ Parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Catherynne M....

Author	Pierre Guyotat
ISBN	1840680628

This book is soaked in blood, smeared with shit, stinking of putrefaction and sticky with cum. And it's about innocence.
Innocence is a wild flower blossomed in a mass grave.

Guyotat took part in the Algerian war in 1960, at the age of 20, and started working on "Tomb for 500.000 Soldiers"...

Author	Dietmar Dath
ISBN	3518420216

Das Zeitalter, das wir kennen, ist längst eingeschlafen. Wo einmal Europa war, gibt es nur noch drei labyrinthische Städte, die eher gewachsen sind, als daß sie erbaut wurden. Die Welt gehört den Tieren. Fische streiten über Sodomie, Theologinnen mit Habichtsköpfen suchen in Archiven nach...

Author	Kuzhali Manickavel
ISBN	8190605631

Fiction. South Asia Studies. "Not merely lyrical and strange, but also deadpan funny"--Miranda July. A centipede in a shoe, revelations in a shoebox, nosebleeds, exploding women, and a dead mouse named Miraculous populate this collection of thirty-five short stories from one of India's most original...