I'm realising now that a lot of what I have read is YA, and I don't know if that's cool or not--if it is, I can add some more recs!
But here's some non-YA:
Beneath the World, a Sea by Chris Beckett: Mildly horror SF in which an asteroid hit the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, creating an alien ecosystem very cut off from the rest of the world. A cop ventures there to try to enforce the UN ruling that duendes, creatures that instill terror and other psychological effects on nearby humans, are considered people and shouldn't be killed by the people living there...but he is way, way over his head.
Short Stories:
Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self by Isabel J. Kim: a world where people can split into "instances" of themselves, an original and a copy. The main character moved from Korea to the US as a kid and travels back to Korea for her grandfather's funeral, where she meets her instance for the first time.
The Court Magician by Sarah Pinsker: a street urchin accepts an offer to go to the palace and learn the secret of real magic, but it comes with a steep price. Dark fantasy
Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado: a girl with a ribbon around her neck meets a boy, gets married, has a family: but her husband won't leave the fact of her ribbon alone and desperately wants to touch it. Kind of a horror about everyday misogyny.
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I'm realising now that a lot of what I have read is YA, and I don't know if that's cool or not--if it is, I can add some more recs!
But here's some non-YA:
Beneath the World, a Sea by Chris Beckett: Mildly horror SF in which an asteroid hit the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, creating an alien ecosystem very cut off from the rest of the world. A cop ventures there to try to enforce the UN ruling that duendes, creatures that instill terror and other psychological effects on nearby humans, are considered people and shouldn't be killed by the people living there...but he is way, way over his head.
Short Stories:
Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self by Isabel J. Kim: a world where people can split into "instances" of themselves, an original and a copy. The main character moved from Korea to the US as a kid and travels back to Korea for her grandfather's funeral, where she meets her instance for the first time.
The Court Magician by Sarah Pinsker: a street urchin accepts an offer to go to the palace and learn the secret of real magic, but it comes with a steep price. Dark fantasy
Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado: a girl with a ribbon around her neck meets a boy, gets married, has a family: but her husband won't leave the fact of her ribbon alone and desperately wants to touch it. Kind of a horror about everyday misogyny.