The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories

10 best books like The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (Jeffrey Ford): Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories, Punktown, Black Juice, Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, The Best of Michael Swanwick, Meet Me in the Moon Room, Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories, The Divinity Student, Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Portable Childhoods

Saffron and Brimstone: Strange Stories

Author	Elizabeth Hand
ISBN	1595820965

Widely praised and widely read, Elizabeth Hand is regarded as one of America's leading literary fantasists. This new collection (an expansion of the limited-release Bibliomancy, which won the World Fantasy Award in 2005) showcases a wildly inventive author at the height of her powers. Included...

Punktown

Author	Jeffrey Thomas
ISBN	1894815750

In the city they call Punktown, on a planet where a hundred sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows...

Table Of Contents:

The Reflections Of Ghosts
Pink Pills
The Flaying...

Black Juice

Author	Margo Lanagan
ISBN	0060743921

In this extraordinary short story collection, human frailty is put to the test by the relentless forces of dark and light, man and beast. Each tale offers glimpses into familiar, shadowy worlds that push the boundaries of the spirit and leave the mind haunted with the knowledge that black juice runs...

Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories

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...

The Best of Michael Swanwick

Author	Michael Swanwick
ISBN	1596061782

It's here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid and far-ranging...

Meet Me in the Moon Room

Author	Ray Vukcevich
ISBN	1931520011

* Philip K. Dick Award finalist* Locus Recommended Reading Here are 33 weird, wonderful stories concerning men, women, teleportation, wind-up cats, and brown paper bags. By turns whimsical and unsettling—frequently managing to be both—these short fictions describe family relationships,...

Mothers & Other Monsters: Stories

Author	Maureen F. McHugh
ISBN	1931520194

In her debut collection, Maureen F. McHugh examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations.

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Ancestor...

The Divinity Student

Author

Michael Cisco

Short but powerful, this neo-gothic novel, which is illustrated by Harry O. Morris, uses the crisp immediacy of the present tense to lead the reader on a hallucinatory journey from humanity to inhuman transcendence. After a miraculous recovery from near death, a young man known only as the Divinity...

Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology

Author

James Patrick Kelly

If it is true that the test of a first-rate mind is its ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time, then we live in a century when it takes a first-rate mind just to get through the day. We have unprecedented access to information; cognitive dissonance is a banner headline in our morning papers...

Portable Childhoods

Author	Ellen Klages
ISBN	1892391457

Emerging from a unique and powerful voice, this innovative collection offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary, skirting the border between childhood and adulthood. Mysticism, heroism, cruelty, and compassion thread through these multifaceted tales — which...

Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight

Author

Cat Rambo

Small Press newcomer, Paper Golem, debuts the first in a annual series of single author collections by brilliant new authors. EYES LIKE SKY AND COAL AND MOONLIGHT brings together twenty stories from the extraordinary talent of fantasy author Cat Rambo. Here are tales from seaport city of Tabat, both...

Perseids and Other Stories

Author

Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson's time has come. His first novel from Tor, Darwinia, was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo award, and a #1 Locus bestseller in paperback. His next novel, Bios, is a critical and commercial success. Now Wilson's brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for...

Low Flying Aircraft And Other Stories

Author	J.G. Ballard
ISBN	0586045031

Seguramente, Ballard sea conocido por ‘El imperio del sol’, sobre todo por su estupenda adaptación cinematográfica, quizás demasiado edulcorada. Puede que también por ‘Crash’ y toda la polémica movida en torno a ella, y de su adaptación, que dejó un poso de autor depravado y morboso,...

Stable Strategies and Others

Author

Eileen Gunn

This collection of tightly crafted, highly imaginative short stories employs surrealist, satirical, and fantastical devices to explore politics, class, and gender. From a hilarious tale about bioengineering and the stresses of climbing the corporate ladder to an evocative story of a woman who...

The Panic Hand: Stories

Author	Jonathan Carroll
ISBN	0312146981

In questo post booksblog.it ci rimanda all’articolo di Stephen King pubblicato dal New York Times, What Ails the Short Story. King, curatore della raccolta Best American Short Stories 2007, ci parla dello status del racconto negli Stati Uniti e di cosa lui cerca in un racconto, in qualità di lettore.

King...

What I Didn't See and Other Stories

Author	Karen Joy Fowler
ISBN	1931520682

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times bestseller Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth’s younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

The...

The Jaguar Hunter

Author	Lucius Shepard
ISBN	0948893362

The Jaguar Hunter: Powerful, hallucinatory stories in exotic locales
Originally posted at Fantasy Literature
I try to avoid excessive praise unless it is truly deserved, but I can say this without hesitation - Lucius Shepard was one of the best SF short story writers of the 1980s. His prose,...

Things That Never Happen

Author	M. John Harrison
ISBN	0575075937

'Like all good literature, Harrison's stories are worth reading again and again; the more you read, the more you understand.' Iain M. Banks.

Over the last thirty years, M. John Harrison has been inspiring readers and writers alike across the world. His return to science fiction in 2002 with...

Strange Travelers: New Selected Stories

Author

Gene Wolfe

A compilation of some of Wolfe's stories from the 1990's, a decade where he was largely occupied with writing the epic Long Sun and Short Sun series'.

The general word is that Wolfe's short fiction decreased in quality during this time compared to his 70's and 80's work. In the strictest sense...

The Girl Who Loved Animals and Other Stories

Author	Bruce McAllister
ISBN	1930846495

Bruce McAllister's long-awaited short fiction collection showcasing the author's five decades of writing, including his first professional sale. Introduction by science fiction great Harry Harrison, afterword by the John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winner Barry N. Malzberg, and wraparound...

Strange Itineraries

Author	Tim Powers
ISBN	1892391236

Ghosts, accidental time travel, a secret clan of immortals, and Maxwell's Demon are all subjects in this complete collection of short stories by Tim Powers. Elusive and evocative, these stories are excursions into strange and dangerous worlds and are as colorful and inventive as Powers's novels....

More Tomorrow: And Other Stories

Author	Michael Marshall Smith
ISBN	0974420301

Going well beyond the scope of his UK collection from several years ago, this is the definitive collection of Smith's shorter fiction, as well as his long overdue first US collection. MORE TOMORROW & OTHER STORIES features 30 of the author's best stories, plus an introduction by award-winning...