The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven
10 best books like The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven (Jonathan Strahan): Jagannath, Mockingbird, The Golden Ass, The Core of the Sun, The Long List Anthology Volume 2: More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List, The Electric State, The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth, Sinistra körzet, Isten gépei, A Négyszögletű Kerek Erdő
Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly fantastical stories. Whether through the falsified historical record of the uniquely weird Swedish creature known as the “Pyret” or the title story, “Jagannath,” about a biological ark in...
| Author | Walter Tevis |
| ISBN | 0345431626 |
I could tell with in the first few paragraphs of this book I was really going to like it. The story starts with Robert Spofforth, a very special robot, in fact a Make Nine robot, whistling as he walks down the street. Now to me whistling is a very distinctive human trait. I know some birds can be taught to whistle...
| Author | Apuleius |
| ISBN | 0253200369 |
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass....
From the author of the Finlandia Award-winning novel Troll: A Love Story, The Core of the Sun further cements Johanna Sinisalo’s reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country’s unique take on it, dubbed “Finnish weird.” Set in an alternative historical present,...
This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the...
In 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel west through a strange USA. The ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, heaped together with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline. As their car approaches the edge of the continent, the world outside...
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 1618730347 |
The Unreal and the Real is a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories—as selected by the National Book Award winning author herself—the reader will be delighted, provoked, amused, and faced with the sharp, satirical voice of one of the best...
| Author | Ádám Bodor |
| ISBN | 9631418863 |
Az immár klasszikus regény vagy novellafüzér (a műfaji határok a Sinistra körzet esetében is elmosódnak), amelyet Bodor egyik fő műveként tart számon az irodalomtörténet, épp negyedszázada, 1992-ben jelent meg először. Az egyszerre ismerős és holdbéli tájnak ható...
| Author | Brandon Hackett |
| ISBN | 9639828203 |
Egyik pillanatról a másikra történt: 2027-ben a Nap eltűnt az égről. Helyén egy vörös törpecsillag ontja rőt fényét a Föld világos oldalára, míg a halott és fagyott sötét oldal fölött sosem látott csillagképek ragyognak. Az Ugrásnak nevezett jelenség oka ismeretlen,...
A Négyszögletű Kerek Erdő
Cả một thế giới trẻ em Hung-ga-ri đã lớn lên với những tính cách khó quên, được thể hiện bằng một phong cách riêng độc đáo, cùng cái nhìn ấm áp và tình yêu sâu xa trong thế giới nhân vật của Lázár Ervin, nhà văn viết cho thiếu nhi...
1983-ban minden megváltozott Magyarországon. Az egyik erdőben újfajta állatok jelentek meg, hosszú csápjaikkal a faágakon kapaszkodva. Sehol a világon nem láttak még hozzájuk hasonlót. Életműködésük érthetetlen – nincs szükségük élelemre, de imádják a cukrot,...
