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One Thousand and One Nights (aka The Arabian Night.

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (2011).This is definitely the kind of science fiction that would appeal to readers who don't think that sci-fi is their thing. I'm not sure what you envision happening next, but I can pretty much guarantee that it isn't what you expect. Our narrator is a bad little rich girl (with a really great Clockwork Orange kind of vocabulary) who is used to getting high and having sex with all the boys, but who finds her sex life thwarted when the boys come back from vacation with freaky little ferret things with obscenely prominent vaginas. Although the stories are thematically unrelated, an undercurrent of mortality weights many of the tales with a powerful sense of humanity's frailties. My favorite story might be 'All My Darling Daughters,' set in an extraterrestrial boarding school for the daughters of wealthy men who donate sperm to unknown surrogates in order to create heirs who they don't meet until they've grown up. Fire watch electronic resource This book collects 12 stories from one of science fiction's most decorated authors. The stories in this collection cover some familiar sci-fi tropes (time travel, other planets, apocalyptic futures) but with a focus on character and humanity that is missing in some science fiction. I'm so glad that I finally got this introduction to her! I am a little surprised I'd never read any Willis before - she is a prominent and prolific author of just the kind of Ray Bradburyish, feminist without beating you over the head with it, science fiction that I really love. I am pretty sure I got this copy of Fire Watch by Connie Willis (1985) from the lovely St.