Waiting for the Galactic Bus

10 best books like Waiting for the Galactic Bus (Parke Godwin): Storm Glass, Gateway, Alchemy and Meggy Swann, The Affair of the Porcelain Dog, Dreams Underfoot, Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot, Batman and Robin, Volume 1: Born to Kill, Kissing Sherlock Holmes, Foundation's Fear, The True Meaning of Smekday

Storm Glass

Author	Maria V. Snyder
ISBN	0778325644

Award-winning author Maria V. Snyder brings readers into a world of molten magic, where storms can be captured within a glass orb and a magician's powers can remain hidden…until challenged by enemy forces. 

As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowan understands trial by...

Gateway

Author	Frederik Pohl
ISBN	0345475836

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror.

When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently...

Alchemy and Meggy Swann

Author	Karen Cushman
ISBN	0547231849

Fans of Karen Cushman's witty, satisfying novels will welcome Meggy Swann,newly come to London with her only friend, a goose named Louise. Meggy's mother was glad to be rid of her; her father, who sent for her, doesn't want her after all. Meggy is appalled by London,dirty and noisy, full of rogues and...

The Affair of the Porcelain Dog

Author	Jess Faraday
ISBN	1602822301

London, 1889. For Ira Adler, former rent-boy and present plaything of crime lord Cain Goddard, stealing back the statue from Goddard's blackmailer should have been a doddle. But inside the statue is evidence that could put Goddard away for a long time under the sodomy laws, and everyone's after it,...

Dreams Underfoot

Author	Charles de Lint
ISBN	0765306794

Welcome to Newford…

Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering...

Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot

Author	Janet Asimov
ISBN	0802764959

I've noticed a trend that I find somewhat alarming. Sometimes, when people write books for young audiences, they ignore the usual rules of good fiction writing - including quality characterization, continuity, solid narrative through-lines, raising the stakes, etc. Norby, the Mixed-Up Robot...

Batman and Robin, Volume 1: Born to Kill

Author	Peter J. Tomasi
ISBN	1401234879

As a part of the acclaimed DC Comics--The New 52 event of September 2011, Batman begins battling evil with his son, Damian, at his side, Batman now realizes that the hardest part of the job may be trying to work together.
As Batman and Robin try to adjust to their new partnership, a figure emerges from...

Kissing Sherlock Holmes

Author

T.D. McKinney

My dear Watson, how does one go about kissing a woman?”...

Sherlock Holmes’ question leads to a lesson Watson never expected to teach. And feelings he never thought to explore. A single kiss alters Watson’s world while the announcement of Holmes’ upcoming marriage sets an odd fear...

Foundation's Fear

Author	Gregory Benford
ISBN	0061056383

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now, with the permission -- and blessing...

The True Meaning of Smekday

Author	Adam Rex
ISBN	0786849002

It all starts with a school essay.

When twelve-year-old Gratuity (“Tip”) Tucci is assigned to write five pages on “The True Meaning of Smekday” for the National Time Capsule contest, she’s not sure where to begin. When her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens...