The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan

10 best books like The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan (Masumi Washington): Apex Magazine Issue 99, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Wicked Wonders, Ghost Summer: Stories, Unexpected Stories, Jackalope Wives and Other Stories, The Kite of Stars and Other Stories, The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, Driftglass

AuthorJason Sizemore
Note: This review is just for the award-winning story “Welcome to Your Authentic Indian Experience.” The ever-vigilant GR librarians merged its review space into this anthology.

All the stars! Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature. This story is free online here at Apex...
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
AuthorNisi Shawl
ISBN1781085781
Anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races

There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” proclaimed Octavia E Butler.

New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many...
Wicked Wonders
AuthorEllen Klages
ISBN1616962615
The award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea returns with smart and subversive new tales

A rebellious child identifies with Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry share one last morning on Earth. A solitary woman inherits a penny arcade haunted by a beautiful...
Ghost Summer: Stories
AuthorTananarive Due
Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening.

In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small...
Unexpected Stories
AuthorOctavia E. Butler
Two never-before-published stories from the archives of one of science fiction’s all-time masters

The novella “A Necessary Being” showcases Octavia E. Butler’s ability to create alien yet fully believable “others.” Tahneh’s father was a Hao, one of a dwindling race whose...
AuthorT. Kingfisher
Winner of the Nebula and WSFA Short Fiction Awards

From award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes a collection of short stories, including "Jackalope Wives," "The Tomato Thief," "Pocosin," and many others. By turns funny, lyrical, angry and beautiful, this anthology includes two all-new...
AuthorDean Francis Alfar
ISBN9712719233
The [over] price that I paid for this book is so worth it . You see, I ended up buying the last "almost damaged, but not as a sale item" copy on a kind-of high-end bookstore, because I was worried that I wouldn't be able to find another copy. But DFA made that Php xx5 amount I paid for the book worth it!!

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AuthorSteven Millhauser
ISBN0753808218
The Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself. Flying carpets; subterranean amusement parks; a band of teenage girls who meet secretly in the night in order to do "nothing at all";...
AuthorTed Chiang
ISBN1596061006
In medieval Baghdad, a penniless man is brought before the most powerful man in the world, the caliph himself, to tell his story. It begins with a walk in the bazaar, but soon grows into a tale unlike any other told in the caliph's empire. It's a story that includes not just buried treasure and a band of thieves,...
AuthorSamuel R. Delany
ISBN0451144244
Why?From Ganymede to Gomorrah, a bizarre breed of planet-hopping humans sell their sexless, neutered bodies... so that others may explore the outer limits of sexual perversion.Far beneath the surface of the planet earth, a doomed architect lives out the rest of his years in a hideous life-sustaining...
GlitterShip: Spring 2017
AuthorKeffy R.M. Kehrli
Spring 2017 issue of GlitterShip!

GlitterShip is a science fiction and fantasy magazine devoted to LGBTQIA+ fiction. Spring 2017 is a collection of the stories and poems that are to be published between April and June of 2017.

This issue features fiction by Susan Jane Bigelow, A.C....
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
AuthorSarena Ulibarri
ISBN0998702277
Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection between technology and nature, and the...
The New Order
AuthorKaren E. Bender
ISBN1640090991
The New Order shows a singular writer at the top of her form dealing with contemporary themes and ideas, shining a spotlight on the dark corners of our nature, our instincts, and our country.

The critically acclaimed author of Refund returns with a new collection of stories that boldly examines...
Lightspeed Magazine, September 2017
AuthorJohn Joseph Adams
LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy,...
Playing Nice with God’s Bowling Ball
AuthorN.K. Jemisin
“What are you saying? That Timmy’s not dead?”

“I’m saying Timmy Johnson may very well live forever.” Mrs. Hanson gave Grace another of those strange, bleak smiles. “You still want to arrest my son for murder?”

this is a free tor short on a technicality - it's a reprint...
Yiwu
AuthorLavie Tidhar
ISBN1250198828
Can dreams come true? They can if you win the lottery, which promises to provide what your heart desires. For a humble shopkeeper in Yiwu, it’s a living, selling lottery tickets. Until a winning ticket opens up mysteries he’d never imagined.

Lavie Tidha's Yiwu is a Tor.com Original short...
Asymmetry
AuthorKendra Fortmeyer
4.0⭐ "I’m just saying,” The Other said, “it’s not so bad now.”
**spoilers**

If you’re following my reviews, thanks for rolling with me. ♡

We’re on the Season 3 LIVE episodes of Stitcher’s LeVar Burton Reads, and we’re gifted with "Asymmetry" by Kendra...
Morning Child and Other Stories
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0743493184
An alternative cover for this edition is here

A collection of over a half-dozen classic science fiction stories by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and editor Gardner Dozois.

Contents
vii • Introduction (Morning Child and Other Stories) • essay by Gardner Dozois
1...
The Vishakanya's Choice
AuthorRoshani Chokshi
“Did we have a choice? An honest one. A real Choice.”

Who would you be if you had a choice? What would you do?

Early in her life, Sudha's fate was divined to be a lonely, fruitless future of young widowhood. So, it was considered a blessing when she was brought to the Hastinapur harem...
In The City of Martyrs
AuthorBonnie Jo Stufflebeam
5.0⭐ “We’re strangers. Let’s leave it at that.”

**spoilers**

If you’re following my reviews, thanks for rolling with me. ♡

We’re on the Season 3 LIVE episodes of Stitcher’s LeVar Burton Reads, and we’re gifted with "The City Of Martyrs” by Bonnie...
For a Little While: New and Selected Stories
AuthorRick Bass
ISBN0316381152
Long considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have the definitive collection of stories, new and old, from the writer Newsweek has called "an American classic."

To...
Crossed Genres Quarterly 4
AuthorBart R. Leib
ISBN0615578632
Each month of Crossed Genres Magazine combines Science Fiction & Fantasy with a new theme. Quarterly 4 contains Issues 34 (Monsters), 35 (Dark Comedy) and 36 (Different), plus exclusive new content!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Issue 34: Monsters
“The Fire” by Timothy T. Murphy
“Inhuman...
The Best We Can: A Tor.com Original
AuthorCarrie Vaughn
ISBN1466850442


We—the scientific community, astronomers, philosophers, writers, all of humanity—had spent a lot of time thinking about what would happen if we found definitive proof that intelligent life existed elsewhere in the universe. All the scenarios involved these other intelligences...
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