Word Puppets
10 best books like Word Puppets (Mary Robinette Kowal): The Cloud Roads, The Art of Theft, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Conservation of Shadows, Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, Grave Importance, Inside Job, Howard Who?, Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories
| Author | Martha Wells |
| ISBN | 1597802166 |
Moon has spent his life hiding what he is — a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. Just as Moon is once again cast out by his adopted tribe,...
| Author | Sherry Thomas |
| ISBN | 0451492471 |
Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, is back solving new cases in the Victorian-set mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of The Hollow of Fear.
As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
| Author | Becky Chambers |
| ISBN | 0062936018 |
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.
Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...
| Author | Yoon Ha Lee |
| ISBN | 1607013878 |
There is no such thing as conservation of shadows. When light destroys shadows, darkness does not gain in density elsewhere. When shadows steal over earth and across the sky, darkness is not diluted. Featuring an Introduction by Aliette De Bodard, Conservation of Shadows features a selection of short...
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
| Author | Genevieve Valentine |
| ISBN | 1607012537 |
Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin...
Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets up its tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe and their impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless...
Writing for science fiction and fantasy audiences can be the most exciting writing you've ever done. Your readers are curious and want you to take them beyond ""The Fields We Know,"" to help them explore the infinite boundaries of the worlds you create.
Here, science fiction great Orson Scott...
| Author | Vivian Shaw |
| ISBN | 0316434655 |
A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies.
Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in...
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 1596060247 |
Professional debunker Rob, proprietor of the Jaundiced Eye magazine, considers himself incredibly lucky to have Kildy as his sole employee. Smart, dedicated, gorgeous, and, thanks to her last movie before she hung up on Hollywood, rich, she's a pleasure to oblige when she says Rob has to witness this...
| Author | Howard Waldrop |
| ISBN | 1931520186 |
"If this is your first taste of Howard, I envy you."-George R. R. Martin The first paperback (and twentieth anniversary) edition of a landmark debut collection. Howard Waldrop's encyclopedic knowledge of superheroes, baseball players, world wars, long-dead film stars, Mexican wrestlers, pulp...
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0312875231 |
As author, poet, and editor, Jane Yolen has published more than 150 books and has won two Nebula Awards, the Caldecott Medal, the World Fantasy Award, the Rhysling Award, the Daedalus Award, the Kerlan Award, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has written one of the 20th century's greatest...
Kabu Kabu - unregistered, illegal Nigerian taxis - generally get you where you need to go, but Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu takes the reader to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations. This debut short story collection by award-winning author Nnedi...
| Author | Sheila Finch |
| ISBN | 1892391082 |
Nebula Award, 1998 - Best Novella
Locus Online Recommended Reading 2001
A struggling linguist, a sheltered debutante, and a strangely silent child are running for their lives, trapped in the violent confluence of three species, only one of which is human.
The Xenolinguist...
