The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
10 best books like The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories (John L. Apostolou): A Scanner Darkly, Prime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern Horror, Time Out of Joint, A Personal Matter, Promethea, Vol. 1, A Deepness in the Sky, Neonomicon, Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, Salmonella Men on Planet Porno: Stories, The Tent
Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to the streets of LA. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, causing, first, disorientation and then complete and irreversible brain damage.
The undercover narcotics agent who...
| Author | Douglas E. Winter |
| ISBN | 0451159098 |
Terrible. I do not recommend this book to anyone. Had I read this collection without knowing it was horror I would have said it was about mental illness or being bored to death.
Nightflier - Stephen King
2 - Didn't get good till the last couple pages. Sometimes King writes a ton of boring...
Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet...
| Author | Kenzaburō Ōe |
| ISBN | 0802150616 |
Kenzaburō Ōe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle to come to terms with a mentally handicapped...
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 1563896672 |
Issues 1-6.
Sophie Bangs was a just an ordinary college student in a weirdly futuristic New York when a simple assignment changed her life forever. While researching Promethea, a mythical warrior woman, Sophie receives a cryptic warning to cease her investigations. Ignoring the cautionary...
| Author | Vernor Vinge |
| ISBN | 0812536355 |
Alternative Cover Edition can be found here.
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.
The...
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 1592911307 |
Comic book legend Alan Moore (WATCHMEN, FROM HELL) and brilliant artist Jacen Burrows deliver a chilling tale of Lovecraftian horror! Brears and Lamper, two young and cocky FBI agents, investigate a fresh series of ritual murders somehow tied to the final undercover assignment of Aldo Sax –the...
| Author | Terry Bisson |
| ISBN | 0312890354 |
Bears Discover Fire is the first short story collection by the most acclaimed science fiction author of the decade, author of such brilliant novels as Talking Man and Voyage to the Red Planet. It brings together nineteen of Bisson's finest works for the first time in one volume, among them the darkly...
| Author | Yasutaka Tsutsui |
| ISBN | 0307377261 |
This collection of marvelously off-kilter short stories – the American debut of acclaimed Japanese writer Yasutaka Tsutsui – portrays the consequences of a world where the fantastic and the mundane collide and throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray.
In “The Dabba...
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385516681 |
One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, punctuated with wonderful illustrations by the author. Chilling and witty, prescient and personal,...
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 1
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1626924678 |
Once upon a time...
In a land far away, there were two kingdoms: the Outside, where twisted beasts roamed that could curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans lived in safety and peace. The girl and the beast should never have met, but when they do, a quiet fairytale begins.
This...
