The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection
10 best books like The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (Gardner Dozois): The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, The Speed of Dark, The Dragon Republic, Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology, A Midsummer Tempest, Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up, The Annals of the Heechee, Mean Streets, Torch of Freedom, The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Author | Esmé Weijun Wang |
ISBN | 1555978274 |
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
Author | Elizabeth Moon |
ISBN | 0345481399 |
In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy. Unfortunately, there will be a generation left behind. For members of that missed generation, small advances will be made. Through various programs, they will be...
The searing follow-up to 2018’s most celebrated fantasy debut – THE POPPY WAR.
In the aftermath of the Third Poppy War, shaman and warrior Rin is on the run: haunted by the atrocity she committed to end the war, addicted to opium, and hiding from the murderous commands of her vengeful god,...
Author | Ann VanderMeer |
ISBN | 1629630357 |
Sisters of the Revolution gathers a highly curated selection of feminist speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, horror and more) chosen by one of the most respected editorial teams in speculative literature today, the award-winning Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Including stories from the...
Author | Poul Anderson |
ISBN | 0812530799 |
"What if Shakespeare were a historian & his world a mortal one of men & elves? Somewhere, spinning thru another universe is a history almost like ours except for the result of a revolution or two & the earlier incidence of a few inventions. A prince called Hamlet has lived in Denmark. The English...
Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day.
In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long...
Author | Frederik Pohl |
ISBN | 0345325664 |
Advanced Heechee technology had enabled Robinette Broadhead to live after death as a machine-stored personality, enjoying his life by flitting along the wires from party to party with a host of other machine-people. But suddenly his decadent existence ends when an all powerful alien race intent...
Author | Jim Butcher |
ISBN | 0451462491 |
Jim Butcher delivers a hard-boiled tale in which Harry Dresden’s latest case may be his last.
Nightside dweller John Taylor is hired by a woman to find something she lost—her memory—in a noir tale from Simon R. Green.
Kat Richardson’s Greywalker finds herself in too deep...
Author | David Weber |
ISBN | 1439133050 |
The Direct Sequel to Crown of Slaves. Two New York Times Best-Selling Authors Again Join Forces in a New Novel in David Weber’s Honor Harrington Universe.
As the slavemasters of Mesa plot against the Star Empire of Manticore and the newly liberated slave planet of Torch, Anton Zilwicki...
The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
Author | Heather B. Armstrong |
ISBN | 1501197045 |
Armstrong shares her story of living with debilitating depression and the radical treatment she underwent to cure it. For years she controlled her depression with a mixture of prescriptions, but when their effects start fading, Armstrong experiences an 18-month period of deep depression fueled...
Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime
A gripping investigation into the crime that scandalized literary London, from Dickens to Thackeray.
On a spring morning in 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a household of servants awoke to discover that their unobtrusive master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with...