The Ant King, and Other Stories
10 best books like The Ant King, and Other Stories (Benjamin Rosenbaum): The Ballad of Black Tom, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, Passing Strange, Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1, A Taste of Honey, Asimov's Science Fiction July/August 2019, The Complete Strangers in Paradise, Volume 1, Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
| Author | Victor LaValle |
| ISBN | 0765387867 |
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.
Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case...
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series. For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Red Threads of Fortune
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed...
The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious and sudden suicide, she ventures to the squatter, utopian town of Freedom, Iowa. All is not well in Freedom, however: things went awry after the town’s residents...
| Author | Ellen Klages |
| ISBN | 0765389517 |
San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic”...
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 1302900536 |
A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman...
Long after the Towers left the world but before the dragons came to Daluça, the emperor brought his delegation of gods and diplomats to Olorum. As the royalty negotiates over trade routes and public services, the divinity seeks arcane assistance among the local gods.
Aqib bgm Sadiqi, fourth-cousin...
Asimov's Science Fiction July/August 2019
Just the cover story - Suzanne Palmer’s long novella “Waterlines” - is worth the price of admission for Asimov’s 2019 summer issue. A sharply written thriller set in a mostly frozen remote planet, where a human colony coexists with a subaquatic alien species, also non-native to the planet....
The Complete Strangers in Paradise, Volume 1
| Author | Terry Moore |
| ISBN | 1892597055 |
This quality hardbound volume is the first in a series collecting the SIP story in its complete story arcs. Book One contains the entire original mini-series that introduced Francine, Katchoo, David, Freddie and more. Plus, a 5 page short story, sketchbook pages, character designs, creator notes...
Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage
| Author | Grant Morrison |
| ISBN | 1563890348 |
Since I've reviewed Showcase
Presents Doom Patrol Volume 1 and Umbrella Academy Volume 1 recently, I thought I'd give the series that fills the gap (of sorts) between them a try, Grant Morrison's renowned Doom Patrol run.
The book starts with Robotman in a mental institution after...
Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0691029075 |
The nature of William Blake's genius and of his art is most completely expressed in his Illuminated books. In order to give full and free expression to his vision Blake invented a method of printing that enabled him to create works in which words and images combine to form pages uniquely rich in content...
Welcome back to America! For a man trapped in the Homeland Security machine, passing through customs becomes a nightmarish odyssey in this story by the author of Beasts of No Nation.
He’s a well-traveled consultant arriving home at a metropolitan airport. He’s also become accustomed...
Ungirls (Disorder collection)
In the near future, lab-grown sex dolls are the pleasure toy of choice in this disturbing and provocative short story from Lauren Beukes, the bestselling author of The Shining Girls.Actor and sex worker Nats is experienced at putting on a show. However, her new gig supplying intimate whispers for growgirls...
The Beckoning Fair One (Disorder collection)
All teenagers come of age. But in this spellbinding story by the bestselling author of Ill Will, one girl’s awakening requires something special. Something strange. Then it can all work like a charm.Ever since they were orphaned, Tyler has kept close tabs on his sister, Shannon. He has to, considering...
The Best Girls (Disorder collection)
Inspired by a true event, this powerful short story from the author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko explores the meaning of patriarchy and the cost of female silence through the eyes of a dutiful young girl.An excellent student from a poor, traditional family in Seoul, the narrator has absorbed...
Loam (Disorder collection)
When three siblings return to their hometown for their estranged father’s funeral, burying the ghosts of the past proves to be impossible in this chilling story by the author of Mysterious Skin.Forty years ago, triplets Miriam, Louise, and Edward were swept up in a case of rural mass hysteria. Coerced...
Will Williams (Disorder collection)
In the modern retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's 'William Wilson' by the author of 'The Old drift,' a young black man's paranoia escalates as he is followed, challenged, and terrorized by a doppelgänger bent on sabotaging his life.
Ever since high school, somebody's been playing the echo game...
The Best Scarlet Ceremony Ever! (Drabblecast #415)
Sweet Valley High and the Babysitters Club meet cult life and H.P. Lovecraft mythos, as we continue our special Lovecraft anthology month this week, bringing you an original story by Shaenon K. Garrity.
The Wakefields were the worst family in Oakes Isle. Even the grown-ups knew it. Whenever...
| Author | Nikhil Singh |
| ISBN | 9789966190 |
So it started out as some weird dystopia. And then, just as you’re figuring out the world, comes Chapter 4.
Weird. AF.
The iconography alone is bizarre.
So, maybe this isn’t “bizarro” level stuff. But, so far, it’s some of the weirdest stuff I’ve read, and I’m...
