The Last Hot Time
10 best books like The Last Hot Time (John M. Ford): The Haunting of Tram Car 015, The Tea Master and the Detective, Rivers of London Volume 6: Water Weed, The Survival of Molly Southbourne, More Walls Broken, The Lady Astronaut of Mars, The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich, Finder, The Girl in the Green Silk Gown, Elsewhere
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
| Author | P. Djèlí Clark |
| ISBN | 1250294800 |
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 returns to the alternate Cairo of Clark’s short fiction, where humans live and work alongside otherworldly beings; the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities handles the issues that can arise between the magical and the mundane. Senior Agent Hamed...
The Tea Master and the Detective
| Author | Aliette de Bodard |
| ISBN | 1596068647 |
Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars. In this fluid society, human and mindship avatars mingle in corridors and in...
Rivers of London Volume 6: Water Weed
| Author | Ben Aaronovitch |
| ISBN | 1785865455 |
It's all gone to pot!
London's waterways have been overrun by a brutal and beautiful queenpin of crime. A menacing figure known only as the Hoodette is sending her henchmen along the river to distribute her new magically produced drug. Unfortunately for them, the waterways are home to the Rivers...
The Survival of Molly Southbourne
Who was Molly Southbourne? What did she leave behind?
A burnt-out basement. A name stained in blood. Bodies that remember murder, one of them left alive. A set of rules that no longer apply.
Molly Southbourne is alive. If she wants to survive, she’ll need to run, hide, and be ready...
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 1596068868 |
As this ingenious new novella, More Walls Broken, begins, a trio of academics have just entered a deserted California cemetery late at night, bringing with them a number of arcane devices aimed at achieving an equally arcane purpose. What follows is the sort of dizzying, mind-expanding entertainment...
The Lady Astronaut of Mars
| Author | Mary Robinette Kowal |
| ISBN | 1466873825 |
Thirty years ago, Elma York led the expedition that paved the way to life on Mars. For years she's been longing to go back up there, to once more explore the stars. But there are few opportunities for an aging astronaut, even the famous Lady Astronaut of Mars. When her chance finally comes, it may be too late....
The Dealings of Daniel Kesserich
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 0312866224 |
Fritz Leiber was one of the most famous fantasy and SF writers of the century, the author of many classics, including the popular Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fantasy series. In 1936, young Leiber, then in correspondence with the famous writer H.P. Lovecraft, drafted this eerie story. Now Tor is pleased...
| Author | Emma Bull |
| ISBN | 0765347776 |
American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
Welcome to Bordertown. A hybrid community of misfits, oddballs and runaways. Where humans, elves and halflings coexist. Where magic and the brutal realities of survival clash...
The Girl in the Green Silk Gown
The second book in the Ghost Roads series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking ghost Rose Marshall continues her battle with her killer--the immortal Bobby Cross.
Once and twice and thrice around,
Put your heart into the ground.
Four and five and six tears shed,
...
| Author | Will Shetterly |
| ISBN | 0152052097 |
Elsewhere is moody. It's from the viewpoint of young people who have dropped out and live on the streets, forming their own families and relationships. I don't especially feel comfortable with the idea of kids living this way, but that's one of the best things about reading. You get to see different worlds,...
| Author | Will Shetterly |
| ISBN | 0152052100 |
This YA punk fantasy from the early 1990s, is set in Bordertown, which is on the border between our world and Faerie. It's populated by elves, humans, and halfies. Ron, the human teenage protagonist in the previous book, Elsewhere, has been cursed by an annoyed elf and turned into Wolfboy, half wolf and...
| Author | Terri Windling |
| ISBN | 0812522621 |
On the border between the World and Elfland sits Bordertown, a place of half-lit neighborhoods of hidden magic, of flamboyant artists and pagan motorcycle gangs. Bordertown is a hothouse laboratory for the return of magic to the life of the World--and the return of life to magic. It's an attitude and...
| Author | Terri Windling |
| ISBN | 0812508246 |
All new stories by Emma Bull, Kara Dalkey, Charles de Lint, Craig Shaw Gardener, Michael Korolenko, Ellen Kushner, Will Shetterly, Midori Snyder, and Terri Windling (writing as Bellamy Bach); song lyrics by Emma Bull. Cover art by Rick Berry (Tor Books edition, 1991).
"Life on the Border...
| Author | M.C. Beaton |
| ISBN | 0446613711 |
"Visions o' God, Holy Grail, shipwreck, murder and mayhem, and all you lot can find to talk about is a mythical affair." — An exasperated Hamish
Highland charm and humor make for another winner from M.C. Beaton. Visiting Hamish Macbeth in his beloved Lochdubh is the cure for whatever ails...
Balfour and Meriwether in the Incident of the Harrowmoor Dogs
| Author | Daniel Abraham |
| ISBN | 1596065761 |
When a private envoy of the queen and member of Lord Carmichael's discreet service goes missing, Balfour and Meriwether are asked to look into the affair. They will find a labyrinth of dreams, horrors risen from hell, prophecy, sexual perversion, and an abandoned farmhouse on the moors outside Harrowmoor...
| Author | Steven M. Forman |
| ISBN | 0765328763 |
Retired Boston cop Eddie Perlmutter returns in Steven Forman's Boca Daze. Since moving to Boca Raton, Florida, Eddie’s busted Russian counterfeiters, solved at least two murders, thwarted neo-Nazi harassment, and gained justice for a number of those who couldn’t do it for themselves. This...
| Author | Tim Powers |
| ISBN | 1596060751 |
A first edition of a 1968 book of poems, with a sonnet that appears in no other copy -- a mysterious girl with a special fountain-pen, who needs a special favor -- and an old woman who warns used-book dealer George Sydney that helping the girl he's fallen in love with will mean that he will never have fallen...
| Author | Terri Windling |
| ISBN | 0451141725 |
The land of fairy returns, and it’s a messy reunification at best. The land between the normal human world and Fairy is called "The Border," a place where one can easily become lost—or found. In the rements of evacuated cities from this rebirth the two worlds come together in Bordertown, where magic...
