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10 best books like Unwelcome Bodies (Jennifer Pelland): Federations, Dark Faith, Apocalypse Array, Somewhere Beneath Those Waves, Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home, Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, The Road to Corlay, Fiddle-back, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 71 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #71)

Federations
AuthorJohn Joseph Adams
ISBN0809573474
From Star Trek to Star Wars, from Dune to Foundation, science fiction has a rich history of exploring the idea of vast intergalactic societies, and the challenges facing those living in or trying to manage such societies. The stories in Federations will continue that tradition. What are the social/religious/environmental/technological...
Dark Faith
AuthorMaurice Broaddus
ISBN0982159684
The destructiveness of passion, both earthly and supernatural, makes cities bleed and souls burn across worlds, through endless time. Experience the spiritual side of the zombie apocalypse in "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" and transcend both hell and nirvana in "Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch's...
Apocalypse Array
AuthorLyda Morehouse
ISBN0451459814
Much in the same vein as the previous book. It does some things better, the chapters which are first person alternative characters don't feel as bad and cut-off, for example. The plot has some nice moments and storyline continues to thread urban fantasy with religion commentary. Unfortunately there's...
Somewhere Beneath Those Waves
AuthorSarah Monette
ISBN1607013053
Monette's diverse collection delves deeply into the mythic and reaches far beyond everyday reality. Readers cannot resist journeying with her into realms-dangerously dark or illuminatingly revelatory-they could never imagine without her as their guide. From ghost stories in the tradition of...
Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home
AuthorJames Tiptree Jr.
ISBN0441801811
From one of science fiction's newest, brightest talents - a collection of worlds of wit and wonder demanding only that you be ready for them, including:

AND I AWOKE AND FOUND ME HERE ON THE COLD HILL'S SIDE -
Man seeks to get into bed with anything new and different, or die trying. But when the...
Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
AuthorMike Allen
ISBN1934169986
You hold in your hands a cornucopia of modern cutting-edge fantasy. The first volume of this extraordinary new annual anthology series of fantastic literature explodes on the scene with works that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle...
The Road to Corlay
AuthorRichard Cowper
ISBN0708881955
On the Eve of the Fourth Millennium a slowly-building civilization, struggling out of the rubble of the Drowning, was crushed beneath the sceptor of a powerful and repressive Church. But on the Eve of the Fourth Millennium the sound of a magical pipe was heard, and the air was filled with songs of freedom...
Fiddle-back
AuthorElizabeth Honey
ISBN1864486856
It should come as no surprise that spunky young Aussie Henni Octon had a sequel in her. How could this 12-year-old possibly stop writing after she and her pals exposed her shifty neighbors' scheme in 45 & 47 Stella Street and Everything That Happened? Equally spunky Aussie Liz Honey has brought back...
Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
AuthorDelia Sherman
ISBN1931520240
Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political—and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.

This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex,...
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 71 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #71)
AuthorNeil Clarke
FICTION
“Mantis Wives” by Kij Johnson
“Honey Bear” by Sofia Samatar
“Fade to White” by Catherynne M. Valente

NON-FICTION
“The Spell of History: Magic Systems and Real-World Zeitgeists” by Jeff Seymour
“In a Carapace of Light: A Conversation with...
The Apex Book of World SF
AuthorLavie Tidhar
ISBN0982159633
The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells...
Grants Pass
AuthorJennifer Brozek
ISBN9197760560
The apocalypse has arrived.

Humanity was decimated by bio-terrorism; three engineered plagues were let loose on the world. Barely anyone has survived.

Just a year before the collapse, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA, was publicly labeled as a place of sanctuary in a whimsical online,...
Alanya to Alanya
AuthorL. Timmel Duchamp
ISBN0974655961
Seattle, February 2076. The Marq ssan bring business as usual to a screeching halt all over the world, and Professor Kay Zeldin joins Robert Sedgewick, US Chief of Security Services, in his war against the invaders. Soon Kay is making rather than writing history. But as she goes head-to-head against...
The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
AuthorTim Pratt
ISBN0553383388
In this debut novel, acclaimed short-story author Tim Pratt delivers an exciting heroine with a hidden talent–and a secret duty. Witty and suspenseful, here is a contemporary love song to the West that was won and the myths that shape us….

As night manager of Santa Cruz’s quirkiest coffeehouse,...
Necro Files: Two Decades of Extreme Horror
AuthorCheryl Mullenax
Spanning over twenty years, 20 masters and modern authors that have broken down the barriers of traditional horror share their most unrestrained, edgiest works in this special edition from Comet Press. Many hard to find and out of print, some that were banned, Necro Files is a collection that covers...
The Lure of Dangerous Women
AuthorShanna Germain
ISBN1938757033
Dangerous women aren’t always the ones who carry guns and take down the bad guys. Sometimes, the most dangerous women are the ones we don’t even notice -- the sultry siren crooning in a smoky bar, the innocent young girl twirling in her summer dress, the soft-shoed nurse who helps the comatose.

In...
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 2
AuthorJonathan Strahan
ISBN1597801240
The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best...
Through Darkest America
AuthorNeal Barrett Jr.
ISBN0373303025
Post Apocalypse America...

Bluevale was about all Howie had seen of the world. Even his Pa, who knew everything, didn’t know much about the way it was before the war.
Scriptures said all of the unclean animals had been wiped out. Howie didn’t know what that meant exactly. He’d seen...
Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical
AuthorDeborah Noyes
ISBN0763637521
Freaks, magicians, psychics, and the passing strange take center stage in ten original tales by top YA authors and graphic novelists.

Molly is a bearded girl who joins the circus, only to fi nd that her former tormentor faces a far hairier plight. Tia claims that her lamented mom is a three-thousand-year-old...
The Two of Them
AuthorJoanna Russ
ISBN0819567604
Irene, a rebellious product of an American 1950s upbringing, has fled from a repressive and sexist society into a life of apparent equality and adventure as part of the elite Trans-Temporal Authority's cadre of travelers. Under the tutelage of Ernst, a friend/lover and teacher/father, Irene has...
Far
AuthorSarah Diemer
Lesbian zombies, fucked up love and a sentient world...

Once, Mana stole back souls for a living. As a Runner, it was her job to snatch the dead out of After and spare them from a dubious future provided by a machine known as the Recycler. Through magic and will, she joined the stolen souls to their...
Bending the Landscape: Original Gay and Lesbian Horror Writing
AuthorNicola Griffith
ISBN1585673722
Two major things: some of the authors are straight, and this isn't leave-the-lights-on horror. There's a lot of good stories in here (a decent handful about southern gay ppl dealing with ghosts and other such things, which is exactly the kind of thing I love) and there's also some that are just bad. The...
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