Worldwired
by Elizabeth Bear | 
Lurulu
by Jack Vance | 
Panglor
by Jeffrey A. Carver | 
Orion Arm
by Julian May | 
Passion Play
by Sean Stewart | 
The Last Starfighter
by Alan Dean Foster | 
Fade-Out
by Patrick Tilley | 
Divergence
by Tony Ballantyne | 
The Modular Man
by Roger MacBride Allen | 
Earth Afire
by Orson Scott Card | 
Orion Shall Rise
by Poul Anderson | 
Banner of Souls
by Liz Williams | 
Mission Child
by Maureen F. McHugh | 
The Veils of Azlaroc
by Fred Saberhagen | 
Up Against It
by M. J. Locke | 
Lord of Light
by Roger Zelazny | 
The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin | 
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
by Philip K. Dick | 
The Gate to Women's Country
by Sheri S. Tepper | 
The Gone-Away World
by Nick Harkaway |
Where do you run when a world is out to get you? AIs, Forged beings, superheroes, angels, and worlds that change in the blink of an eye'??here is a richly imagined tale of ordinary redemption in an extraordinary world from one of the most provocative writers working today.'? Francine is a young runaway looking to find a definition of love she can trust. In Sankhara, she finds a palace where rooms are made of bone, flowers, and the hearts of heroes. She finds a scientist mapping the territory of the human mind. She finds a boyfriend. And she finds Eros itself'??incarnated in the androgynously irresistible form of Jalaeka. But not everyone is in love with the god of love. Unity, for one, wants to assimilate Jalaeka along with every other soul in the universe. And contrary to what everyone always believes, love alone can'??t save the day. It will take something both more and less powerful than the human heart to save the worlds upon worlds at risk when gods collide. '??For Robson, world-building is a literary device like any other, useful for exposing buried fears and desires to the light of day, no matter how strange the sun.'? '??New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition.