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10 best books like The Slave and the Free (Suzy McKee Charnas): Lagoon, Native Tongue, Fledgling, Ammonite, The Word for World is Forest, Heavy Weather, The Apology, Excession, The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

Lagoon
AuthorNnedi Okorafor
ISBN1444762753
When a massive object crashes into the ocean off the coast of Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous and legendary city, three people wandering along Bar Beach (Adaora, the marine biologist- Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa- Agu, the troubled soldier) find themselves running a race against...
Native Tongue
AuthorSuzette Haden Elgin
ISBN1876756055
Called "fascinating" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are once again property,...
Fledgling
AuthorOctavia E. Butler
ISBN0446696161
Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her...
Ammonite
AuthorNicola Griffith
ISBN0345452380
Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit...
The Word for World is Forest
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahiti" on a tree-covered planet whose small, green-furred, big-eyed inhabitants have a culture centered on lucid dreaming. Terran greed spirals around native innocence & wisdom, overturning...
Heavy Weather
AuthorBruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid imagination and invention that proves his talent for creating brilliant speculative fiction is sharper than ever.

Forty years from now, Earth's climate has been drastically changed by the greenhouse...
The Apology
AuthorEve Ensler
ISBN1635574382
From Eve Ensler, author of one of the most influential works of the twentieth century--The Vagina Monologues--and one of Newsweek's "150 Women Who Changed the World," comes a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement.

Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting...
Excession
AuthorIain M. Banks
ISBN0553575376
The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is "a talent to be reckoned with" ("Locus"). In Excession, the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead...
The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
AuthorCordwainer Smith
ISBN0915368560
The third story in this volume takes place 16,000 years in the future. When you realize that the 33 stories are ordered chronologically, you begin to grasp the scale of Cordwainer Smith's creation. Regimes, technologies, planets, moralities, religions, histories all rise and fall through his millennia.

These...
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
AuthorAngélica Gorodischer
ISBN1931520054
This is the first of Argentinean writer Angélica Gorodischer's nineteen award-winning books to be translated into English. In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial's multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral...
The Silent City
AuthorÉlisabeth Vonarburg
ISBN0553297899
Only a handful of humans remains in the City, the final stronghold of science and technology in a war-ravaged world. Forged from genetic materials stolen from the Outsiders, Elisa is the first of a new race--endowed with the remarkable power of rejuvenation. A metamorphic journey into (the) disturbing...
The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN0060724293
This omnibus covers Nikki Giovanni's complete work of poetry from 1967–1983. THE COLLECTED POETRY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI will include the complete volumes of five adult books of poetry: Black Feeling Black Talk/Black Judgement, My House, The Women and the Men, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, and Those Who...
The Beginning Place
AuthorUrsula K. Le Guin
ISBN0765346257
Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"--a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle...
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
AuthorAdam Gopnik
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis...
Welcome To Mars: Science And The American Century, 1947 1959
AuthorKen Hollings
ISBN0954805488
An iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959, the decade in which the nation defined its image and created the blueprint for the world we live in today.

Welcome to Mars is an iconoclastic, penetrating and darkly humorous history of America from 1947-1959,...
Fairies: A Dangerous History
AuthorRichard Sugg
ISBN1780238991
Don’t be fooled by Tinkerbell and her pixie dust—the real fairies were dangerous. In the late seventeenth century, they could still scare people to death. Little wonder, as they were thought to be descended from the Fallen Angels and to have the power to destroy the world itself. Despite their...
86 ―エイティシックス― Ep.2 ―ラン・スルー・ザ・バトルフロント―〈上〉
AuthorAsato Asato
ISBN4048932322
即大重版の電撃小説大賞《大賞》受賞作、待望の第二弾!

共和国の指揮官・レーナとの非業の別れの後、隣国ギアーデ連邦へとたどり着いたシンたち〈エイティシックス〉の面々は、ギアーデ連邦軍に保護され、一時の平穏を得る。
だが──彼らは戦場に戻ることを選んだ。連邦軍に志願し、再び地獄の最前線へと立った彼らは、『隣国からやってきた戦闘狂』と陰で囁かれながらも、シンの“能力”によって予見された〈レギオン〉の大攻勢に向けて戦い続ける。そしてその傍らには、彼らよりさらに若い、年端もいかぬ少女であり、新たな仲間である「フレデリカ・ローゼンフォルト」の姿もあった。
少年たちは、そして幼き少女はなぜ戦うのか。そして迫りくる〈レギオン〉の脅威を退ける術とは、果たして──?
シンとレーナの別れから、奇跡の邂逅へと至るまでの物語を描く、〈ギアーデ連邦編〉前編!
“──死神は、居るべき場所へと呼ばれる”.
The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art
AuthorMatthew Kirkpatrick
ISBN1946724165
A strange museum, an even stranger curator, the deceased artist who haunts him, and the mystery surrounding the museum founders’ daughter, lost at sea as a child . . . The Ambrose J. and Vivian T. Seagrave Museum of 20th Century American Art is by turns a dark comedy, a ghost story, a romance, a whodunit,...
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