Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic

8 best books like Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic (Eduardo Jiménez Mayo): Hominids, A Night in the Lonesome October, Spin, Lagoon, Anno Dracula, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, My Notorious Life, Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds

Hominids

Author	Robert J. Sawyer
ISBN	0765345005

Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth. A Neanderthal physicist, Ponter Boddit, accidentally passes from his universe into a Canadian underground research facility. Fortunately, a team of human scientists, including expert paleo-anthropologist...

A Night in the Lonesome October

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0380771411

Review updated yet again (and again) on November 1, 2018

A group read with some of my greatest friends: OhWell, Sarah, and Tadiana.

First a disclaimer: I lost count to the number of times I read the book. Seriously. I still find something new with each reread. I would also like to welcome...

Spin

Author

Robert Charles Wilson

One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout....

Lagoon

Author	Nnedi Okorafor
ISBN	1444762753

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...

Anno Dracula

Author	Kim Newman
ISBN	0857680838

It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. Peppered with familiar characters from Victorian history and fiction, the novel follows vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes...

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

Author	Melanie Benjamin
ISBN	0385344155

In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: a woman who became a nineteenth...

My Notorious Life

Author	Kate Manning
ISBN	1451698089

A brilliant rendering of a scandalous historical figure, Kate Manning's My Notorious Life is an ambitious, thrilling novel introducing Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine for the ages. Axie's story begins on the streets of 1860s New York. The impoverished child of Irish immigrants, she grows up to become...

Child of the Jungle: The True Story of a Girl Caught Between Two Worlds

Author	Sabine Kuegler
ISBN	0446579068

A #1 bestseller in Europe, CHILD OF THE JUNGLE tells the remarkable story of a childhood and adolescence spent caught between two modes of existence-jungle life and Western "civilization."
Sabine Kuegler was five years old when her family-her German linguist-missionary parents and her siblings-moved...