The Collected Stories
10 best books like The Collected Stories (Elizabeth Bowen): Tau Zero, Grass, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, The Fall of Atlantis, The Greengage Summer, Ladder of Years, The Books of Earthsea, Earth, The Door Into Shadow, The Essential W.S. Merwin
Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two qualities that are often at odds in this genre: an interest in the emotional lives of its characters and a fascination with all things technological and scientific. In Tau Zero these components are not...
| Author | Sheri S. Tepper |
| ISBN | 1857987985 |
Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It too had developed a culture......
Now a deadly plague is spreading across the stars, leaving no planet untouched, save for Grass. But the...
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
| Author | Nora Krug |
| ISBN | 1476796629 |
Nora Krug's story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history.
Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0671656155 |
A wounded Atlantean prince...a deadly battle between Dark and Light...and the sisters Deoris and Domaris, whose lives are changed utterly by the magic involving them. These are the elements of The Fall of Atlantis, Marion Zimmer Bradley's epic fantasy about that ancient and legendary realm.
On...
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot's devoted lover;...
| Author | Anne Tyler |
| ISBN | 0804113475 |
If Ladder of Years isn't already one of my favorite novels, The Last Picture Show and The Remains of the Day can see it in their rearview mirrors. Taken together, each novel documents the human experience at critical points, ages 18, 45 and 65, perhaps. Anne Tyler's compulsively absorbing comic drama...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 1481465589 |
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea—“…reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago” (David Mitchell)—comes this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations illuminating...
TIME IS RUNNING OUT Decades from now, an artificial black hole has fallen into the Earth's core. As scientists frantically work to prevent the ultimate disaster, they discover that the entire planet could be destroyed within a year. But while they look for an answer, some claim that the only way to save...
| Author | Diane Duane |
| ISBN | 0812523695 |
I love Segnbora (love love love Segnbora). I love dragons. I love like 95% of this book. But there are maybe 5 pages that just destroyed the story for me. You can look at other reviews for more details, as I am far from the only person to have this issue. (CW for discussion of (view spoiler)[rape (hide spoiler)].
The Essential W.S. Merwin
| Author | W.S. Merwin |
| ISBN | 1556595131 |
“Merwin is one of the great poets of our age.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Merwin has become instantly recognizable on the page; he has made for himself that most difficult of all creations, an accomplished style.”—Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books
“It is...
