The Sky Is Yours by Chandler Klang Smith ★★★★☆

"From below, the dragon does not resemble a living thing. It is an oppression, a ceiling on the world." 

American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett ★★★★☆

Are you tired of aliens that look like Bob-your-neighbor with pointy ears or some other negligible difference? 

Are you tired of predictable plots you see a mile away? 

Have no fear, this is not one of those! These are ALIENS. 

Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex

The Reality Trip by Robert Silverberg  ★★★★☆

“She is a cosmic nuisance, but I fear I’m getting to like her.” 

Part meaningful story of loneliness, part SNL skit, I burst out laughing at least twice.  

Maybe I’m an asshole and I should have seen the despair in more even terms but deep levels of crazy amuse me.  

It’s How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days with crab aliens.  How could I not laugh?