The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection
10 best books like The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection (Gardner Dozois): Here and Now and Then, A Monstrous Regiment of Women, A Letter of Mary, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Homesick for Another World, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Grifters, Sideswipe: A Hoke Moseley Novel, Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes, The Best American Short Stories 2010
To save his daughter, he'll go anywhere—and any-when…
Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in I.T., trying to keep the spark in his marriage, and struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career as a time-traveling...
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
| Author | Laurie R. King |
| ISBN | 0006514944 |
A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell's adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth in her own right. Looking for respite in London after a stupefying visit from relatives, Mary encounters a friend from Oxford. The young woman...
Guilty. I committed a great reading faux-pas.
Years ago I read The Beekeeper's Apprentice and A Monstrous Regiment of Women. My book group was reading The Beekeeper's Apprentice , so I reread it and loved it even more than I remembered. I decided to buy the next two books in the series, A Monstrous...
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall
| Author | Nancy Kress |
| ISBN | 1616960655 |
The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell.
Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the Six—children who were born deformed or sterile and raised in the Shell....
Homesick for Another World
| Author | Ottessa Moshfegh |
| ISBN | 0399562885 |
An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time.
There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Her characters are all unsteady...
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1407247425 |
Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book - SF: 100 Best Novels
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer...
| Author | Jim Thompson |
| ISBN | 0316404055 |
To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.
Yet, hidden behind...
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1400032482 |
Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a very pregnant, very single partner, and a low paying job as a Miami homicide detective, Hoke moves to Singer Island and vows never step foot on the mainland again. But on the street, career criminal Troy...
| Author | Martin H. Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0786710748 |
The game's afoot! Read all-new Sherlock Holmes stories and speculative essays, praised as "of the highest order and should be required for every Sherlockian shelf" (Rocky Mountain News). Eccentric, coldly rational, brilliant, doughty, exacting, lazy-in full bohemian color the world's most famous...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 0547055323 |
I devoured this book. All the rules I've been studying, all the presumed intelligentsia and invisible gatekeepers I've been cowering under have been pushed aside, fictionalized, for what I've learned from these stories. Established writers and emerging writers alike are represented in this annual...
| Author | Charles Willeford |
| ISBN | 1400032490 |
Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a lethal overdose. There he meets the alluring stepmother of the decedant, and begins to wonder about dating a witness. Meanwile, he has been threatened with suspension by his ambitious new chief unless he...
Death is Simon’s business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast and he needs a driver. Bernard is twenty-one. He can drive and he’s never seen the sea. He can’t pass up the chance to chauffeur for Simon, whatever his mother may say....
| Author | Jeffrey Archer |
| ISBN | 1250200768 |
Nothing Ventured heralds the start of a brand new series in the style of Jeffrey Archer’s #1 New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles: introducing Detective William Warwick. But this is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective . . .
William Warwick has always...
