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Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy

10 best books like Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Lucas K. Law): Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology, Failure to Communicate, The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria, The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia, CYBERPUNK: MALAYSIA, Hurricane Heels, Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016, Look Who's Morphing, Wicked Wonders, Don't Open This Book

Alternative Alamat: Stories Inspired by Philippine Mythology
AuthorPaolo Chikiamco
ISBN9719942150
Philippine mythology is full of images that ignite the imagination: gods of calamity and baldness, of cosmic time and lost things; the many-layered Skyworld, and weapons that fight their own battles; a ship that is pulled to paradise by a chain, and a giant crab that controls the tides . . . Yet too few...
Failure to Communicate
AuthorKaia Sønderby
As one of the only remaining autistics in the universe, Xandri Corelel has faced a lot of hardship, and she's earned her place as the head of Xeno-Liaisons aboard the first contact ship Carpathia. But her skill at negotiating with alien species is about to be put to the ultimate test.

The Anmerilli,...
The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria
AuthorCarlos Hernandez
ISBN1495607399
A quirky collection of short sci-fi stories for fans of Kij Johnson and Kelly Link
 
Assimilation is founded on surrender and being broken; this collection of short stories features people who have assimilated, but are actively trying to reclaim their lives. There is a concert pianist who...
The Sea Is Ours: Tales from Steampunk Southeast Asia
AuthorJaymee Goh
ISBN1495607569
Steampunk takes on Southeast Asia in this anthology
 
The stories in this collection merge technological wonder with the everyday. Children upgrade their fighting spiders with armor, and toymakers create punchcard-driven marionettes. Large fish lumber across the skies, while boat...
CYBERPUNK: MALAYSIA
AuthorZen Cho
Cyberpunk as you've never seen it before…
Science fiction is all about outrageous ideas. Nice
Malay girls breaking the rules. Censorship. Brain drain.
Moral policing. Migrant exploitation. All the stuff of fiction,
obviously.
But these 14 short stories take it one step...
Hurricane Heels
AuthorIsabel Yap
Five ordinary girls discover magical powers in this new series of interconnected short stories from Isabel Yap

When Alex, Ria, Aiko, Natalie and Selena met at summer camp, they never expected the goddess would ask for their help, enlisting them as soldiers to protect the world from the forces...
Uncanny Magazine Issue 10: May/June 2016
AuthorLynne M. Thomas
The May/June 2016 issue of Uncanny Magazine.

Featuring new fiction by Seanan McGuire, Kat Howard, JY Yang, Alyssa Wong, and Haralambi Markov, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Foz Meadows, Tanya DePass, Sarah Monette, and Stephanie Zvan, poetry by Beth Cato, M. Sereno, and...
Look Who's Morphing
AuthorTom Cho
Look Who’s Morphing is a collection of funny, playful, often outlandish fictions in which, along with his extended family, the central character undergoes a series of transformations, shape-shifting through figures drawn from film and television, music and books, porn flicks and comics. He...
Wicked Wonders
AuthorEllen Klages
ISBN1616962615
The award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea returns with smart and subversive new tales

A rebellious child identifies with Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry share one last morning on Earth. A solitary woman inherits a penny arcade haunted by a beautiful...
Don't Open This Book
AuthorMarvin Kaye
39 tales of weird fantasy, taboo science and souls in torment.

The Problem of the Country Mailbox by Edward D. Hoch
The Bargain by A.M. Burrage
The Sins of the Father by Carole Bugge
The Moving Finger Types by Henry Slesar
The Story of Obbok by Darrell Schweitzer
Revised...
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
AuthorJohn L. Apostolou
Most Americans would describe Japanese science fiction with one word: Godzilla. However, true fans of the genre know that for decades, Japan has been turning out some of the most innovative stories ever published. Unfortunately, those that make it into English are often difficult to find. The Best...
The Gate of Worlds
AuthorRobert Silverberg
ISBN1596871571
In this alternate history novel, the Bubonic Plague sets the stage for a world where the West is powerless. After the Black Death has wiped out most of the European population, there is little defense against Turkish invasion and expansion, and by the 1980s, the major world powers are the Russians, the...
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue (Lightspeed Magazine, Issue #73)
AuthorNalo Hopkinson
LIGHTSPEED was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction. The whole point of this magazine is that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people and for people—all kinds of people, no matter where they’re from or what they look like.

The...
First: Sensual Lesbian Stories of New Beginnings
AuthorCheyenne Blue
ISBN9881420482
Dive into these fifteen sizzling tales of lesbian love and romance and experience the wonder, the joy, and the magic of new beginnings. A woman sees her lover for the first time after years of blindness. For the first time in her life, a top trusts her girlfriend enough to let her take control. A connection...
A Fantasy Medley 3
AuthorYanni Kuznia
ISBN1596067675
In “Goddess at the Crossroads,” Kevin Hearne shares a thrillingly memorable episode from the past of his popular Iron Druid Chronicles hero Atticus O’Sullivan, revealing how one night’s dark encounter with the cult of Hecate served as inspiration for Shakespeare’s witches in the Scottish...
Junk Mage
AuthorElliot Cooper
When technomancer Quillian Defote crash-lands on remote planet Marutuk, he has limited time to repair his ship and get off world. If he fails, he’ll forfeit his position as professor of mechanical transmutation at the prestigious Ivy Arcanarium and ruin his employment prospects in yet another...
Unruly Creatures: Stories
AuthorJennifer Caloyeras
ISBN1943665788
Independent Publisher’s Book Awards, Silver Medal, Short Story Fiction

In this collection rife with humor and pathos, alienated characters struggle to subvert, contain, control, and even escape their bodies. A teenage girl grapples with pubic hair grown wild, a biologist finds herself...
Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 1
AuthorRachel Kramer Bussel
ISBN1627781536
Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 1 delivers risky, romantic, heart-pounding thrills. Joyful, daring, and authentic, these steamy stories revel in erotic adventure, from the sparks between strangers to the knowing caresses of longtime lovers. These stories are not merely erotic but filled...
The Hour of Daydreams
AuthorRenee M. Rutledge
ISBN1942436270
At a river near his home in the Philippine countryside, respected doctor Manolo Lualhati encounters the unthinkable—a young woman with wings. After several incredible visits, he coaxes her to stay behind—to quit flying to the stars with her sisters each night—so they can marry. Tala agrees,...
The Faceless One
AuthorMark Onspaugh
From a brilliant new voice in horror comes a riveting nightmare of ancient evil unleashed—and the bravery and sacrifice of those called to combat it.
 
In 1948, when he was just a boy, Jimmy Kalmaku trained with his uncle to be the shaman of his Tlingit village in Alaska. There he learned the...
The Essential Good Food Guide: The Complete Resource for Buying and Using Whole Grains and Specialty Flours, Heirloom Fruit and Vegetables, Meat and Poultry, Seafood, and More
AuthorMargaret M. Wittenberg
ISBN1607744341
The definitive guide to buying, storing, and enjoying whole foods, in full color for the first time and revised and updated throughout.
     In New Good Food, organic foods authority Margaret Wittenberg offers the most up-to-date advice on organics, heirloom grains and legumes, gluten-free...
Apple and Knife
AuthorIntan Paramaditha
Inspired by horror fiction, myths and fairy tales, Apple and Knife is an unsettling ride that swerves into the supernatural to explore the dangers and power of occupying a female body in today’s world.

These short fictions set in the Indonesian everyday—in corporate boardrooms, in shanty...
The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-six
AuthorJonathon Keats
ISBN0812978978
Marvelous and mystical stories of the thirty-six anonymous saints whose decency sustains the world–reimagined from Jewish folklore.

A liar, a cheat, a degenerate, and a whore. These are the last people one might expect to be virtuous. But a legendary Kabbalist has discovered the truth:...
Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean
AuthorKirsty Murray
ISBN1743319789
Be transported into dystopian cities and other-worldly societies. Be amazed and beguiled by a nursery story with a reverse twist, a futuristic take on TV cooking shows, a playscript with tentacles - and more, much more. Plunge in and enjoy!

A collection of sci-fi and fantasy writing, including...
The Book Hunters of Katpadi: A Bibliomystery
AuthorPradeep Sebastian
Neelambari Adigal and her young associate, Kayal, together run Biblio, a one-of-a-kind store of rare books in Chennai, specializing in modern Indian first editions. The lives of these passionate bookwomen revolve around curious browsers, eccentric book collectors, private-press printers and...
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