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41) Alien stories
Author
Series
American reader volume 36
Publisher
BOA Editions, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories. These eighteen startling stories, each centered around an encounter with the unexpected, explore what it means to be an alien. With a nod to the dual meaning of alien as both foreigner and exterrestrial, Osondu turns familiar science-fiction tropes and immigration narratives...
42) New Earth
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 20
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get...
Author
Publisher
& Other Stories
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her...
44) World piece: 1
Series
World piece volume 1
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Lucas Densen has earned his easygoing reputation through hard work and optimism. When not playing basketball for his high school team, the Pulsars, Lucas enjoys visiting his mother's archaeological excavations. During one visit, Lucas accidentally triggers an ancient alien artifact that suddenly transorms Earth into a small glowing orb no larger than a basketball! Transported to a mysterious realm with nothing but what's on his back and the planet...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
Series
Dai dark volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in space wants Zaha Sanko dead, thanks to the legend that whoever claims his bones will obtain their heart's desire. Being public enemy number one makes life pretty hard for a young guy like Sanko, but so far he's been the one doing the bone collecting. Sanko and his skeletal buddy Avakian break in their brand new ship, cruising the spacelanes in a galaxy full of bizarre customers. One of them is Hajime Damemaru, a self-described "normal...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A story collection, in the vein of Carmen Maria Machado, Kelly Link, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, spanning worlds and dimensions, using strange and speculative elements to tackle issues ranging from class differences to immigration to first-generation experiences to xenophobia. What does it mean to be other? This question murmurs in the heart of each of Brenda Peynado's strange and singular stories. Threaded with magic, transcending time and place,...
Author
Series
Riftwar. Demonwar saga volume 2
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Conclave of Shadows battles the villainous sorcerer Belasco and his demon servants.
49) El principito
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
A pilot is forced to land in the Sahara Desert, where he meets a profoundly wise yet enigmatic little prince from another planet.
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