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10 best books like The Secret History of Science Fiction (James Patrick Kelly): Federations, The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows, The Secret History of Fantasy, The Fate of Mice, The Apex Book of World SF, The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories, Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists, Women of War, The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection

Federations
AuthorJohn Joseph Adams
ISBN0809573474
From Star Trek to Star Wars, from Dune to Foundation, science fiction has a rich history of exploring the idea of vast intergalactic societies, and the challenges facing those living in or trying to manage such societies. The stories in Federations will continue that tradition. What are the social/religious/environmental/technological...
The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN0670060593
"An original science fiction anthology"

Truly successful science fiction does two things: it gives credible glimpses into the future while entertaining the reader. With this in mind, noted anthologist Jonathan Strahan (who is also the reviews editor of Locus magazine) asked sixteen of...
The Secret History of Fantasy
AuthorPeter S. Beagle
ISBN1892391996
Step right up and buy your ticket to the impossible marvels of the Barnum Museum. Take a highly caffeinated ride through the Empire of Ice Cream. If you dare, hunt feral archetypes deep within a haunted English forest. Or conquer the New World with a band of geographically-challenged Norsemen.

Tired...
The Fate of Mice
AuthorSusan Palwick
ISBN1892391422
Gathering together the most outstanding short stories of Susan Palwick's twenty-year literary career, The Fate of Mice is a powerful collection from an extraordinary fantasist. These unflinching tales, including three original pieces, consider a woman born with her heart exposed and the heartless...
The Apex Book of World SF
AuthorLavie Tidhar
ISBN0982159633
The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells...
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories
AuthorJohn Kessel
John Kessel's latest collection — which includes the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Award winner "Pride and Prometheus" — is a long-awaited road map to the fantastic where Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, and Flannery O'Connor intersect. Kessel's four-story modern classic...
Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists
AuthorBradford Morrow
ISBN0941964558
For perhaps two decades, a small group of writers rooted in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror have been simultaneously exploring and erasing the boundaries of those genres by creating fiction of remarkable depth and power. Their connections to the genres they have been radically redefining...
Women of War
AuthorTanya Huff
ISBN0756402867
In the real world, many women are still struggling for equality, but science fiction and fantasy provide a stage for the portrayal of women who have come fully into their own. Here, a talented group of writers has taken up the challenge of creating strong, well-rounded female protagonists, more than...
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology
AuthorGordon Van Gelder
ISBN1892391910
Collecting more than two dozen stories that originally appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—the premiere speculative fiction magazine—this extraordinary anthology celebrates 60 years of top-notch genre fiction.

This retrospective volume includes "All Summer...
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection
AuthorGardner Dozois
ISBN0312274785
The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:

Stephen Baxter, M.Shayne...
Year's Best SF 9
AuthorDavid G. Hartwell
The Future Boldly Imagined From Breathtaking New Perspectives The world as we will know it is far different from the future once predicted in simpler times. For this newest collection of the finest short form SF to appear in print over the preceding year, acclaimed editors and anthologists David G....
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011
AuthorKevin J. Anderson
ISBN0765328429
With this inaugural volume at Tor, the annual Nebula Award collection is reborn as a fiction-only anthology, edited by the incomparable Kevin J. Anderson. This collection of nominees for 2010's Nebula Awards includes all of the prior year's most celebrated stories, and will be published in time for...
The Power of Film
AuthorHoward Suber
ISBN1932907173
America's most distinguished film professor provides the definitive A to Z course on the intricacies of film. Each entry in this remarkable book, which represents a lifetime of teaching film, has already inspired and educated several generations of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers and writers....
Science Fiction 101
AuthorRobert Silverberg
If you read or write science fiction, here is the best introduction to the secrets, the craft and the art of science fiction. Included are thirteen classic works of modern sf; wondrous stories by Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, Jack Vance, Frederick Pohl and many others. If you love science fiction, read...
Endangered Species
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0765310333
Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction work of the 1980s, offered his second collection of short fiction in 1990 to universal acclaim. This is a hefty volume of over 30 unforgettable stories in a variety of genres-- SF, fantasy, horror, mainstream-many...
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