Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1The empress of salt and fortune (2020)The empress of salt and fortune (2020) 7.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2020A cleric records an old servant's memories through the objects around her. Nghi Vo makes that small act of listening revise an empire's account of its own history. The pleasure is in how a domestic detail can acquire political force, with much left for the reader to connect. A concentrated choice…0
  2. 2When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (2020)When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (2020) 8.6/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2020Cornered by hungry tigers, Chih must tell a love story well enough to survive. The tigers keep correcting the human version. Vo turns the disagreement into a lively question about how a teller's loyalties change what becomes history. This is another complete Singing Hills story, readable without…0
  3. 3The dream-quest of Vellitt Boe (2016)The dream-quest of Vellitt Boe (2016) 6.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2016Professor Vellitt Boe leaves her women's college to retrieve a student who has run away with a dreamer from another world. Johnson turns Lovecraft's Dreamlands towards the people his imaginative adventures marginalised. An older woman's experience, obligations and capacity to change give the quest…0
  4. 4Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower (2020)Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower (2020)Published 1 Jan 2020Floralinda's princes keep failing to get past the monsters in her tower, so waiting politely becomes a poor survival strategy. Muir makes each floor a practical problem and lets the princess's lessons become increasingly alarming. The result is an adult fairy tale about what training someone to…0
  5. 5Haunting of Tram Car 015 (2019)Haunting of Tram Car 015 (2019) 8.3/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2019A possessed tram car gives two Cairo officials a problem that cannot be solved by waving away its passengers' concerns. Clark fits bureaucracy, labour and women's political rights inside a supernatural investigation. The altered city feels larger because the case encounters its ordinary systems at…0
  6. 6Ring Shout (2020)Ring Shout (2020) 7.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2020What if racist propaganda could turn its audience into literal monsters? Clark builds a fierce historical horror story around that premise, with Maryse and her companions resisting the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Georgia. The action has the concentrated drive of a novella, while songs, stories and…0
  7. 7The Ballad of Black Tom (2016)The Ballad of Black Tom (2016) 7.6/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2016A Black hustler's route through New York becomes a rebuke to the assumptions inside Lovecraft's fiction. LaValle brings the occult into Tommy Tester's effort to support himself and his father, making exclusion central to the horror. The Ballad of Black Tom is short enough to hold its change of…0
  8. 8The sorcerer of the Wildeeps (2015)The sorcerer of the Wildeeps (2015) 7.5/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2015Demane travels as a hired guard, though his powers are far greater than his companions understand. Protecting them may demand a change that costs him something human. Wilson makes that problem intimate through his love for the Captain, then places the caravan in a danger brute force cannot neatly…0
  9. 9A Taste of Honey (2016)A Taste of Honey (2016) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2016Aqib falls for a visiting soldier, Lucrio, in a society that has already prescribed the shape of his future. Wilson gives desire, family and social permission the weight other fantasies reserve for wars. Its handling of time makes this a book to read attentively, with room to reconsider what a…0
  10. 10Passing Strange (2017)Passing Strange (2017) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 2017In 1940 San Francisco, art and a circle of queer women create possibilities that respectable society would deny them. Klages combines romance, noir and a small amount of transformative magic, giving images and keepsakes consequences beyond their surfaces. Passing Strange is especially good for…0