speculative fiction

"Part biography, part reader's guide, the . . . write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred [women] authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories"--Provided by publisher.

N.K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.

"Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark upon an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when diagnosed with a terminal illness, he's willing to take an insane gamble. He's built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he'll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. He could find more than the cure for his illness; he might what everyone has been searching for since time began...but only if he can survive Hollow World."-- page 4 of cover.

Portrays a speculative world where opposite-sex couples are persecuted and known as Perps, short for Perpendicular. Chris has always followed the rules until he meets Carmen, the daughter of one of the leading Perpendicular prosecutors. When they realize they are in love, their only chance to be together is to join the Underground, a secret society that is determined to mount an attack against the social restrictions in their world.

The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel...what if Hitler had actually won World War II? What if the body that was found after the war did not belong to Hitler?.