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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 1

10 best books like The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 1 (Jonathan Strahan): The City in the Middle of the Night, The Mote in God's Eye, A Dead Djinn in Cairo, Stealing Worlds, Perilous Shield, Cast in Moonlight, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B, The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, The Space Opera Renaissance

The City in the Middle of the Night
AuthorCharlie Jane Anders
ISBN0765379961
"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives."

Set on a planet that has fully definitive, never-changing zones of day and night, with ensuing extreme climates of endless, frigid darkness and blinding, relentless light, humankind...
The Mote in God's Eye
AuthorLarry Niven
Very entertaining, interesting, intriguing, thought provoking, etc.

Good science fiction.

Robert A. Heinlein himself is quoted as saying something to the effect that this was the best science fiction novel he had ever read. I don’t know that I’d go that far, but this was very...
A Dead Djinn in Cairo
AuthorP. Djèlí Clark
ISBN0765389444
Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads...
Stealing Worlds
AuthorKarl Schroeder
From Karl Schroeder, author of Lockstep, comes the near-future, science fiction, hacker's heist, Stealing Worlds.

Sura Neelin is on the run from her creditors, from her past, and her father's murderers. She can't get a job, she can't get a place to live, she can't even walk down the street:...
Perilous Shield
AuthorJack Campbell
ISBN0425256316
New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell returns with the next chapter in the overthrow of the Syndicate Worlds’ oppression…

Following a successful coup, the leaders of the rebel Midway Star System struggle to forge a government free enough to please its citizens yet strong enough...
Cast in Moonlight
AuthorMichelle Sagara
Barely a teenager, Kaylin Neya is a thief, a fugitive and an attempted assassin. She also has a smart mouth, sharp wits and mysterious markings on her skin. All of which make her perfect bait for a child prostitution sting in the city of Elantra - if she survives her first meeting with the Hawks!

Join...
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
AuthorEdmund R. Schubert
ISBN0765320002
Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing submissions from well-known sf and fantasy writers, as well as fostering some amazing new talents. This collection contains some of the best of those stories from...
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II B
AuthorBen Bova
ISBN0380000547
This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

Published in 1973 to honor stories that had come before the institution...
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
AuthorTom Shippey
ISBN0192803816
This is the definitive collection of the twentieth-century's most characteristic genre -- science fiction. The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered...
The Space Opera Renaissance
AuthorKathryn Cramer
ISBN0765306174
"Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the "new space opera" is one of the defining streams of modern SF.

Now,...
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017
AuthorJulie E. Czerneda
ISBN1633882713
The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories of the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). The editor, selected by SFWA's anthology Committee (chaired by Mike...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0312204450
The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including:
William Barton * Rob Chilson * Tony Daniel...
Keeper of Dreams: Short Fiction
AuthorOrson Scott Card
This huge collection of short stories by one of science fiction's most beloved and popular writers is sure to please his millions of fans. Keeper of Dreams contains 22 stories written since 1990.

From the opening science fiction tale, "The Elephants of Poznan," we see the hand of a master at...
The Iron Tonic: Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0151004374
This melon collic story is about an old home where all the people are old or unwell. It goes on painting all the dreary and hopeless things around these people. Ponds full of eels beneath ice and people trapped in the snow. There is a panel about a dead orphan who escaped the wraith and that dark humor got a...
Oishinbo a la carte, Volume 1 - Japanese Cuisine
AuthorTetsu Kariya
ISBN1421521393
Follow journalist Yamaoka Shiro on a rich culinary adventure as he hunts for the "ultimate menu". To commemorate its 100th anniversary the heads of newspaper Tozai Shimbun come up with a plan to publish the “Ultimate Menu”. The assignment is given to journalist Yamaoka Shiro, the protagonist...
A History of Violence
AuthorJohn Wagner
ISBN1563893673
It's just another quiet day in small-town, USA, until a couple of wanted killers walk into Tom McKenna's diner looking for trouble. When Tom gives them more than they bargained for, he and his family are thrust into the kind of white-hot media spotlight that attracts a lot of attention - and questions...
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