The Art of Space Travel

10 best books like The Art of Space Travel (Nina Allan): Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016, A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers, A Taste of Honey, That Game We Played During the War, The Destroyer, The City Born Great, Lullaby for a Lost World, Your Orisons May Be Recorded, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth, The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales

AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The May/June 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Seanan McGuire, Kat Howard, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, and Haralambi Markov, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Foz Meadows, Tanya DePass, Sarah Monette, and Stephanie Zvan, poetry by Beth Cato, M. Sereno, and...
AuthorAlyssa Wong
The day my sister ended the world, the sky opened up in rain for the first time in years, flooding the desert wash behind our house. The snakes drowned in their holes and the javelinas stampeded downstream, but the water overtook them, and the air filled with their screaming as they were swept away.

this...
A Taste of Honey
AuthorKai Ashante Wilson
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...
AuthorCarrie Vaughn
ISBN0765389355
The people of Gaant are telepaths. The people of Enith are not. The two countries have been at war for decades, but now peace has fallen, and Calla of Enith seeks to renew an unlikely friendship with Gaantish officer Valk over an even more unlikely game of chess, in Carrie Vaughn's novella That Game We Played...
The Destroyer
AuthorTara Isabella Burton
ISBN0765389401


My eyes were her eyes. My lips were her lips and my shoulders, too, were hers, and so the world was geometrically composed, and everything I ever was or would become was threaded in me already, and manifest in her.

this is helicopter parenting with a SF edge; where cloning/parthenogenesis...
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.

Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient...
Lullaby for a Lost World
AuthorAliette de Bodard
ISBN0765389819
Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up through the walls, feeding his power and continuing the cycle. As time passes and the ones she loved fade away, the house and the master remain, and she yearns ever more deeply for vengeance.

At the...
Your Orisons May Be Recorded
AuthorLaurie Penny


Human beings are generally confused. That’s where we come in. Mainly, as the floor supervisor explained in a recent slideshow presentation, humans are confused about wants and needs. They’re always on their knees begging for things they want rather than asking for things they need....
Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
AuthorDaryl Gregory
ISBN1250209455
When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion--or something else entirely. How much time do we have left, and do we even understand what timescale to use? As a slow apocalypse blooms across the Earth, planets and plants, animals and microbes, all live...
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales
AuthorDominik Parisien
An all-new anthology of cross-genre fairy tale retellings, featuring an all-star lineup of award-winning and critically acclaimed writers.

Once upon a time. It’s how so many of our most beloved stories start.

Fairy tales have dominated our cultural imagination for centuries....
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The November/December 2016 issue of the Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Paul Cornell, Brooke Bolander, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Bledsoe, Kat Howard, and Nalo Hopkinson, reprinted fiction by Amal El-Mohtar, essays by Alyssa Wong, Monica Valentinelli,...
AuthorCharlie Jane Anders
3.5 stars for this Tor online freebie story, available here. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:

A stranger shows up at the door of a gay couple, Anwar and Joe, who’d just gotten married the day before, and presents them with Berkley, a black cat with white marks. He tells them...
AuthorJason Sizemore
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every month.

Extra large Customer Appreciation issue!

TABLE OF CONTENTS...
AuthorLynne 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,...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 115 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #115)
AuthorNeil Clarke
FICTION
“Touring with the Alien” by Carolyn Ives Gilman
“Balin” by Chen Qiufan, translated by Ken Liu
“The Bridge of Dreams” by Gregory Feeley
“The Cedar Grid” by Sara Saab
“Old Friends” by Garth Nix
“Winter's Wife” by Elizabeth Hand

NON-FICTION
“Silver...
The Jewel and Her Lapidary
AuthorFran Wilde
ISBN0765389835
From Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft.

The kingdom in the Valley has long sheltered under the protection of its Jewels and Lapidaries, the people bound to singing gemstones with the power to reshape hills, move rivers, and warp minds. That power...
Traumphysik
AuthorMonica Byrne
ISBN0765390515
Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:

A self-described “brilliant” co-ed, after graduating from MIT, volunteers for the war effort in WWII. The Navy assigns her to a small atoll in the Pacific, responsible for periodically sending up a signal light to guide warplanes to their proper...
The High Lonesome Frontier
AuthorRebecca Campbell
It was hard to write about the green fields of somewhere-or-other when he heard only infernal pigeons, the clutter of wheels on pavement, the shout of boys, the rage of drivers. Despite the noise, Freddie still conjured moon-drenched country walks in terrible songs published as “F. Wilde” because...
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