Summer in Orcus

10 best books like Summer in Orcus (T. Kingfisher): In the Vanishers’ Palace, The Tea Master and the Detective, The Orphans of Raspay, Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water, Black Dogs Part One: The House of Diamond, Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 124, Uncanny Magazine Issue 18: September/October 2017, Nurk: The Strange, Surprising Adventures of a (Somewhat) Brave Shrew, For He Can Creep

In the Vanishers’ Palace

Author

Aliette de Bodard

In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land...

A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world.

A dragon, among the last of her kind,...

The Tea Master and the Detective

Author	Aliette de Bodard
ISBN	1596068647

Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in...

The Orphans of Raspay

Author

Lois McMaster Bujold

When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their...

Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water

Author

Vylar 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...

Black Dogs Part One: The House of Diamond

Author	Ursula Vernon
ISBN	0976921243

Black Dogs: The House of Diamond is the first of two volumes chronicling the adventures of young Lyra, sole survivor of the massacre of her family's estate. Along with a wandering dog-soldier, she is swept up on a mission for the elven nation of Anu'tintavel in its war against a powerful sorcerer. With...

Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017

Author

Lynne M. Thomas

The March/April 2017 issue of Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Beth Cato, Stephen Graham Jones, JY Yang, Sarah Pinsker, and S. Qiouyi Lu, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Sam J. Miller, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Shveta Thakrar, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Paul Booth, poetry...

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 124

Author

Neil Clarke

FICTION
"The Ghost Ship Anastasia" by Rich Larson
"A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad
"Justice Systems in Quantum Parallel Probabilities" by Lettie Prell
"Interchange" by Gary Kloster
"Milla" by Lorenzo Crescentini and Emanuela Valentini, translated by Rich Larson
"Events...

Uncanny Magazine Issue 18: September/October 2017

Author

Lynne M. Thomas

The September/October 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by N.K. Jemisin, Fran Wilde, C. S. E. Cooney, Catherynne M. Valente, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Delia Sherman, reprinted fiction by Malinda Lo, essays by Sophie Aldred, Cecilia Tan, Sarah Kuhn,...

Nurk: The Strange, Surprising Adventures of a (Somewhat) Brave Shrew

Author	Ursula Vernon
ISBN	0152063757

Nurk is a quiet homebody of a shrew. But when a mysterious plea for help arrives in the mail, he invokes the spirit of his fearless warrior-shrew grandmother, Surka, and sets off to find the sender. It seems the prince of the dragonflies has been kidnapped, and Nurk is his last hope for rescue. Such a mission...

For He Can Creep

Author	Siobhan Carroll
ISBN	1250237564

A Tor.com original, Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep is a dark fantasy story of poetry, devilry, and cats in a battle of good vs. evil for the fate of humanity.

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics believing God has commissioned...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #225

Author

Scott H. Andrews

A Nebula and Hugo award nomined short story from the 2017/18 crop, free to read online here at Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

Zee lives in a world inhabited entirely by doll-like wind-up people and animals. They have a mysterious, unseen maker...

The Mountain of Iron

Author

Ursula Vernon

Lyra would not have recognized the young woman that she had grown into during the short time since becoming the protege of a dog-soldier and a student of the capricious natural magic force known as the Kytha. She has little time for such introspection, however, as she flees from the furiious Archmage...

The Martian Obelisk

Author	Linda Nagata
ISBN	1250162408

This is a 2017 Hugo nominated SF short story, free to read online here at Tor.com. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

In another tale that explores human choices in the face of apocalyptic events, Susannah Li-Langford is an eighty year old architect who has spent the last seventeen...