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7 best books like The Survivors (Marion Zimmer Bradley): Across the Nightingale Floor, Sassinak, A Civil Campaign, Falling Free, Grass for His Pillow, The Refrigerator Monologues, Kappa

Across the Nightingale Floor
AuthorLian Hearn
ISBN1573223328
In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.
The youth Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden,...
Sassinak
AuthorAnne McCaffrey
OLD ENOUGH TO BE USED, YOUNG ENOUGH TO BE BROKEN

Sassinak was twelve when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy turned out to be a little different from your typical slave girl. Maybe it was her unusual...
A Civil Campaign
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
ISBN0671578855
Miles Vorkosigan has a problem: unrequited love for the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, violently allergic to marriage after her first exposure. If a frontal assault won't do, Miles thinks, try subterfuge. He has a cunning plan... Lord Mark Vorkosigan, Miles' brother, also has a problem: his...
Falling Free
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
Leo Graf was an effective engineer. Safety regs weren't just the rule book he swore by; he'd helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporate exploitation of his bright new students... until that exploitation turned to something...
Grass for His Pillow
AuthorLian Hearn
ISBN1594480036
Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book in the Tales of the Otori series, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as "the most compelling novel to have been published this year." With Grass for His Pillow,...
The Refrigerator Monologues
AuthorCatherynne M. Valente
ISBN1481459341
The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics.

A series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who’s ever been “refrigerated”: comic book...
Kappa
AuthorRyūnosuke Akutagawa
A patient in a mental hospital tells anyone who will listen his story of chasing a Kappa in the woods, when he fell down a hole and landed in Kappaland, a parallel world to the one above. And, by the way, friends he made in Kappaland come back to visit him nightly.

What’s a Kappa? It’s a scaly,...
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