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10 best books like The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories (John Kessel): The Salt Roads, Bloodchild and Other Stories, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Stranger Things Happen, Salt Creek, A Woman of the Iron People, Inside Job, The Jagged Orbit, Howard Who?, Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories

The Salt Roads
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
ISBN0446677132
A landmark work by a brilliant young author, THE SALT ROADS transports readers across centuries and civilizations as it fearlessly explores the relationships women have with their lovers, their people, and the divine. Jeanne Duval, the ginger-colored entertainer, struggles with her lover poet...
Bloodchild and Other Stories
AuthorOctavia E. Butler
ISBN1583226982
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who...
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
AuthorGenevieve Valentine
ISBN1607012537
Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin...

Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless...
Stranger Things Happen
AuthorKelly Link
ISBN1931520003
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory. The girl detective must go to the underworld to solve...
Salt Creek
AuthorLucy Treloar
ISBN1743533195
1855. Failed entrepreneur Stanton Finch moves his family from Adelaide to the remote Coorong area of Southern Australia, in pursuit of his dream to become a farmer.

Housed in a driftwood cabin, they try to make the best of their situation. The children roam the beautiful landscape of Salt Creek;...
A Woman of the Iron People
AuthorEleanor Arnason
ISBN0759224161
Lixia and the members of her human crew are determined not to disturb the life on the planet circling the Star Sigma Draconis which they have begun exploring. But the factions on the mother ship hovering above the planet may create an unintended chaos for both the life on the planet and the humans exploring...
Inside Job
AuthorConnie Willis
ISBN1596060247
Professional debunker Rob, proprietor of the Jaundiced Eye magazine, considers himself incredibly lucky to have Kildy as his sole employee. Smart, dedicated, gorgeous, and, thanks to her last movie before she hung up on Hollywood, rich, she's a pleasure to oblige when she says Rob has to witness this...
The Jagged Orbit
AuthorJohn Brunner
ISBN0575070528
Matthew Flamen, the last of the networks' spoolpigeons, is desperate for a big story. He needs it to keep his audience and his job. And there is no shortage of possibilities: the Gottschalk cartel is fomenting trouble among the knees in order to sell their latest armaments to the blanks; which ties in...
Howard Who?
AuthorHoward Waldrop
ISBN1931520186
"If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you."-George R. R. Martin The first paperback (and twentieth anniversary) edition of a landmark debut collection. Howard Waldrop's encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes, baseball players, world wars, long-dead film stars, Mexican wrestlers, pulp...
Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0312875231
As author, poet, and editor, Jane Yolen has published more than 150 books and has won two Nebula Awards, the Caldecott Medal, the World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, the Daedalus Award, the Kerlan Award, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has written one of the 20th century's greatest...
Word Puppets
AuthorMary Robinette Kowal
ISBN1607014564
A new short story collection from Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal, with an introduction by Patrick Rothfuss.

Table of Contents
* "The Bound Man"
* "Chrysalis"
* "Rampion"
* "At the Edge of Dying"
* "Clockwork Chickadee"
* "Body Language"
* "Waiting...
Burn
AuthorJames Patrick Kelly
ISBN1892391279
“Burn is James Patrick Kelly at his best, and there’s nothing better.”
—Connie Willis, author of Doomsday Book

The tiny planet Morobe’s Pea has been sold and renamed Walden. The new owner has some interesting ideas. Voluntary simplicity will rule in the Transcendent State;...
Reading the Bones
AuthorSheila Finch
ISBN1892391082
Nebula Award, 1998 - Best Novella
Locus Online Recommended Reading 2001

A struggling linguist, a sheltered debutante, and a strangely silent child are running for their lives, trapped in the violent confluence of three species, only one of which is human.

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