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The best american science fiction and fantasy 2023 (Best American)
Par R. F Kuang. 2023
"Short stories have to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own…
and make you care about it in a matter of pages," writes R. F. Kuang in her introduction. "The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird." The stories in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises. Women can't lie or fall in love. Fathers feed their children ghost preserves. Souls chase one another through animal incarnations. Yet these stories are grounded deeply in our reality. Out of these stories' weirdness emerges the cruelty of border enforcement, the horror of legislation restricting reproductive freedom, the frightening pace of AI. The result is a stunning, immersive, intensely felt experience, showing us less of what the world is, and more of what it could be. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 includes Nathan Ballingrud KT Bryski Isabel Cañas Maria Dong Kim Fu Theodora Goss Alix E. Harrow S. L. Huang Stephen Graham Jones Shingai Njeri Kagunda Isabel J. Kim Samantha Mills MKRNYILGLD Malka Older Susan Palwick Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez Sofia Samatar Kristina Ten Catherynne M. Valente Chris WillrichMen against the sea
Par Charles Nordhoff. 2003
1789. Following the Mutiny on the Bounty (BR 8669), Captain Bligh and eighteen loyal men are set adrift in the…
South Pacific on a twenty-three-foot open launch. Alone on uncharted waters, the crew struggles to survive the 3,600-mile voyage to the Dutch colony of Timor in the East Indies. 1933Be more chill
Par Ned Vizzini. 2004
To become popular and attract the beautiful Christine, New Jersey high school nerd Jeremy swallows an illegal "squip" microchip. The…
device tells him how to act cool, but eventually Jeremy wants to be back in control. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2004Pitcairn's Island
Par Charles Nordhoff. 1934
South Pacific, 1790s-1800s. Fletcher Christian, his fellow H.M.S. Bounty mutineers, and their Polynesian wives flee Tahiti for Pitcairn's Island. Living…
undiscovered for eighteen years, they establish a primitive but thriving settlement until a bitter struggle for vengeance shatters the peace. Sequel to Men against the Sea (BR 15979). 1934Of human bondage (Modern Library)
Par W. Somerset Maugham. 1999
Semiautobiographical novel of obsessive love. Philip Carey, a sensitive, talented orphan with a club foot, comes to live with his…
vicar uncle. Philip studies art in Paris, returns to London to take up medicine, and begins a life-altering affair with Mildred, a waitress. 1999 introduction by Gore Vidal. 1915Singularity sky
Par Charles Stross. 2003
An information plague called the Festival strikes the New Republic, an isolationist planetary colony banning technology. Contractor Martin Springfield and…
United Nations of Earth Security Council agent Rachel Mansour, both on covert missions, become unlikely allies as the colony prepares for war. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2003The sea
Par John Banville. 2006
Middle-aged Irish widower Max Morden retreats to the seaside where he spent his boyhood summers to mourn the loss of…
his wife, Anna. While his grown daughter tries to console him, he confronts the past and his relationship with the wealthy Grace family. Strong language. Man Booker Prize. Bestseller. 2005The Kreutzer sonata and other stories (Penguin classics)
Par Leo Tolstoy, David McDuff. 1985
Four short stories by the nineteenth-century Russian author. In the title piece, a husband confesses to being so consumed by…
sexual jealousy that he feels compelled to murder his wife. The public outcry against the story published in 1890 caused Tolstoy to write the postface included here. 1985Reflex (Jumper #2)
Par Steven Gould. 2004
A mysterious organization kidnaps National Security Agency operative Davy Rice to use his teleportation powers. Davy's wife, Millie, searches frantically…
for him with her own newfound teleporting skills. Sequel to Jumper (DB 37465, BR 9548). Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2004The interruption of everything: a novel
Par Terry McMillan. 2005
Bored African American forty-something Marilyn Grimes deals with a husband's midlife crisis, kids in college, a live-in mother-in-law, and her…
own mother showing signs of dementia. Marilyn, with the help and support of her friends, faces decisions about her future, including a possible pregnancy. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2005Gilead: A Novel
Par Marilynne Robinson. 2004
1950s. Dying seventy-six-year-old Gilead, Iowa, minister John Ames writes a parting letter to his young son. John reflects on the…
tensions between his pacifist father and militant abolitionist grandfather (both preachers), the death of his first wife and child, the gospel, a friend's transgressions, and life's eternal mystery. Pulitzer Prize. Bestseller. 2004Lighthousekeeping
Par Jeanette Winterson. 2004
The young orphan girl Silver learns the value of stories while apprenticed to Pew, a blind lighthouse keeper at Cape…
Wrath, Scotland. Among Pew's tales are the deeds of the double-natured minister Babel Dark, aka Lux, who inspired Robert Louis Stevenson. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some violence. 2004Accidental happiness: a novel
Par Jean Reynolds Page. 2005
South Carolina. Since her husband Ben unexpectedly died three months ago, thirty-three-year-old Gina Melrose has been living aboard their sailboat.…
When Reese, Ben's ex-wife, and her seven-year-old daughter Angel, who might be Ben's child, arrive on the boat, Gina confronts the possibility that Ben betrayed her. Strong language. 2005The plot against America: A Novel
Par Philip Roth. 2004
In this alternative history, a young man--called Philip Roth--recounts his Jewish family's fears and humiliations when aviation hero Charles Lindbergh…
is victorious in the 1940 presidential election. The New Jersey Roths struggle as America, caught up in anti-Semitic fervor, descends into fascism. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2004The empress of the last days: A Novel
Par Jane Stevenson. 2003
This sequel to The Shadow King (BR 15553) moves forward to the twentieth century. Oxford don Michael Foxwist is shown…
seventeenth-century documents that lead him to believe a young black scientist in Barbados may have descended from Elizabeth of Bohemia and Pelagius and be the true queen of England. 2003About love and other stories (Oxford world's classics)
Par Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 2004
Seventeen short stories by the nineteenth-century Russian writer. In the title piece a lonely bachelor tells a sad tale of…
undeclared love and the toll it exacts. The collection includes "The Lady with the Little Dog" (1899), "Gusev" (1890), and "Rothschild's Violin" (1894). Translation by Rosamund Bartlett. 2004Stormchaser (The edge Chronicles Ser. #Bk. 2)
Par Paul Stewart. 1999
Twig joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship, Stormchaser. They embark on a dangerous mission to collect the…
powerful stormphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away. Sequel to Beyond the Deepwoods (BR 15878). For grades 6-9. 1999Blackbird House: A Novel
Par Alice Hoffman. 2004
Twelve interconnected stories spanning two hundred years about the inhabitants of a Cape Cod farmhouse. Sailor John Hadley builds the…
home for his family before he perishes at sea. Successive generations face fear, love, and the forces of nature. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2004Essential stories (Modern Library Classics Ser.)
Par V. S Pritchett. 1997
Jeremy Treglown, a biographer of Pritchett (1900-1997), assembles sixteen of Pritchett's short stories that exhibit his legendary skills. "A Serious…
Question" explores a failing, childless marriage. "The Lion's Den" is autobiographical and "Our Oldest Friend" is an examination of what it means to be rejected. 2005The house of doors
Par Tan Twan Eng. 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists , a spellbinding…
novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption. The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his unhappy and expensive marriage of convenience becomes unbearable after he loses his savings—and the freedom to travel with Gerald. His career deflating, his health failing, Maugham arrives at Cassowary House in desperate need of a subject for his next book. Lesley, too, is enduring a marriage more duplicitous than it first appears. Maugham suspects an affair, and, learning of Lesley's past connection to the Chinese revolutionary, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, decides to probe deeper. But as their friendship grows and Lesley confides in him about life in the Straits, Maugham discovers a far more surprising tale than he imagined, one that involves not only war and scandal but the trial of an Englishwoman charged with murder. It is, to Maugham, a story worthy of fiction. A mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, The House of Doors traces the fault lines of race, gender, sexuality, and power under empire, and dives deep into the complicated nature of love and friendship in its shadow