The Apex Book of World SF

10 best books like The Apex Book of World SF (Lavie Tidhar): The Secret History of Moscow, Blueberries for Sal, Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef, Amnesty, Millions of Cats, The Only Harmless Great Thing, Spirits Abroad, Prime Meridian, A Small Charred Face, Todas as Histórias do Analista de Bagé

The Secret History of Moscow
AuthorEkaterina Sedia
ISBN0809572230
Every city contains secret places. Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s is no different, its citizens seeking safety in a world below the streets -- a dark, cavernous world of magic, weeping trees, and albino jackdaws, where exiled pagan deities and faerytale creatures whisper strange tales to those who...
Blueberries for Sal
AuthorRobert McCloskey
ISBN0670175919
Caldecott Honor Book

What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? A beloved classic is born!

Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama...
Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef
AuthorCassandra Khaw
New Cover edition here

It’s not unusual to work two jobs in this day and age, but sorcerer and former triad soldier Rupert Wong’s life is more complicated than most. By day, he makes human hors d’oeuvres for a dynasty of ghouls; by night, he pushes pencils for the Ten Chinese Hells. Of...
Amnesty
AuthorLara Elena Donnelly
ISBN1250173620
The revolution has come and gone, with Amberlough City striving to rebuild itself from the ashes. The Ospies have been ousted, and the very face of the nation has been changed in the process.

Now, a rising politician is determined to bring Amberlough’s traitors to justice.

Including...
Millions of Cats
AuthorWanda Gág
ISBN0142407089
Once upon a time there was an old man and an old woman who were very lonely. They decided to get a cat, but when the old man went out searching, he found not one cat, but millions and billions and trillions of cats! Unable to decide which one would be the best pet, he brought them all home. How the old couple came...
The Only Harmless Great Thing
AuthorBrooke Bolander
ISBN1250169488
In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an Indian elephant was deliberately put to death by electricity in Coney Island.

These are the facts.

Now these two tragedies are...
AuthorZen Cho
ISBN9670374987
"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always clear. In the forest there is not a big gap between the two."

A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian. A teenage pontianak struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love, and eating...
Prime Meridian
AuthorSilvia Moreno-Garcia
ISBN1927990211
Love, life, dreams, and a world beyond reach.

Amelia dreams of Mars. The Mars of the movies and the imagination, an endless bastion of opportunities for a colonist with some guts. But she’s trapped in Mexico City, enduring the drudgery of an unkind metropolis, working as a rent-a-friend,...
A Small Charred Face
AuthorKazuki Sakuraba
ISBN1421595419
Even monsters need families.

What are the “bamboo”?

They are from China.

They look just like us.

They live by night.

They drink human lifeblood, but otherwise keep their distance.

And every century, they grow white blooming flowers.

A...
AuthorLuis Fernando Verissimo
"Um dos personagens mais queridos do público. Um clássico do humor de Luis Fernando Veríssimo.Todas as Histórias do Analista de Bagé reúne os melhores momentos deste célebre psicanalista que trata seus pacientes aos joelhaços. Com suas tiradas geniais, seu jeito meio "rústico" de ser,...
Irkadura
AuthorKsenia Anske
ISBN1503040119
"My mama became a catfish when I was two, on the day I stopped talking."

Neglected since birth by her mother, Irina Myshko hasn’t spoken a word for most of her short Soviet life. Outcast as a mute idiot and abused by her mother's boyfriends, she escapes into an alternate reality where true natures...
The Last Book
AuthorZoran Živković
ISBN1906301190
A series of mysterious deaths in the Papyrus Bookstore brings literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukic to investigate. Here he meets the attractive owner, Vera Gavrilovic, and learns that the only thing the victims have in common is that in the moments before their deaths they were reading...
Compartments
AuthorZoran Živković
ISBN8683741222


Time to shift your imagination into high gear, here comes contemporary Serbian author Zoran Živković. Compartments, my goodness gracious, what a piece of Middle-European fantastica.

You may very well ask: And what, pray tell, is Middle-European fantastica? In an interview...
Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel
AuthorEli Valley
ISBN1682190706
Eli Valley’s comic strips are intricate fever dreams employing noir, horror, slapstick and science fiction to expose the outlandish hypocrisies at play in the American/Israeli relationship. Sometimes banned, often controversial and always hilarious, Valley’s work has helped to energize...
Little Miss HISTORY Travels to LA BREA TAR PITS & MUSEUM ((Volume 8)
AuthorBarbara Ann Mojica
Ever wonder about life in the Ice Age? Little Miss HISTORY travels back in time to LA BREA TAR PITS & MUSEUM in her eighth adventure of the award-winning “Little Miss HISTORY Travels to” children’s book series. Springs of liquid petroleum and a great lake of pitch, filled with exploding bubbles,...
Little Miss History Travels to Mount Rushmore
AuthorBarbara Ann Mojica
ISBN1492262986
Little Miss History Travels to Mount Rushmore is an educational and fun way to introduce children to history. Ms. Mojica is a historian and retired educator, and her love of history is conveyed effortlessly throughout the book. She brings life to the presidents memorialized in stone at Mount Rushmore,...
Little Miss HISTORY Travels to THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
AuthorBarbara Ann Mojica
ISBN1492211842
Award winning author Barbara Ann Mojica brings you her second book of the Little Miss HISTORY series titled Little Miss HISTORY Travels to The Statue of Liberty.

Since her last trip to Mount Rushmore, Little Miss HISTORY has journeyed more than 1700 miles over land, sea and air to reach her second...
METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization
AuthorJohn Scalzi
Five original tales set in a shared urban future--from some of the hottest young writers in modern SF

More than an anthology, Metatropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers--Elizabeth Bear, Tobias Buckell, Jay Lake, Karl Schroeder, and project editor John Scalzi---who...
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