15 Best science fiction books like Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023 by Neil Clarke

Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023 by Neil Clarke

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

By: Neil Clarke

4.13

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

Our May 2023 issue (#200) contains: - Original fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("Better Living Through Al…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023 by Neil Clarke , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) by Aliette de Bodard

1. The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Magic Mourns (World of Kate Daniels, #3.5; Andrea Nash, #0.5) by Ilona Andrews

2. Magic Mourns (World of Kate Daniels, #3.5; Andrea Nash, #0.5)

By: Ilona Andrews

4.18

Format: 91 pages, ebook

Andrea Nash of the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid - with an assist from her friend, Kate Daniels … read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
"We need a bigger gun."

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Mourns (World of Kate Daniels, #3.5; Andrea Nash, #0.5)

"Who is there with you?" "Raphael" Kate's voice snapped. "I'll be in Atlanta in three hours. Where are you?" "I said it's nothing major." "Bullshit. You wouldn't work with Raphael unless the Apocalyps…"

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Mourns (World of Kate Daniels, #3.5; Andrea Nash, #0.5)

"I promise to keep my hands, tongue, and other body parts to myself. You risk your life by staying home. It's late and we're both too wiped out to go climbing into the People's lair tonight. What do y…"

-Ilona Andrews, Magic Mourns (World of Kate Daniels, #3.5; Andrea Nash, #0.5)

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

3. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
Cover of Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher

4. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

Cover of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

5. To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

By: Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

A young Indigenous woman enters a colonizer-run dragon academy—and quickly finds herself at odds wi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Translation State by Ann Leckie

6. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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7. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

Similar categories in Deena Mohamed's Shubeik Lubeik book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • fiction
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8. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Witch King by Martha Wells

9. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

10. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

11. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Saga, Volume 11 by Brian K. Vaughan

12. Saga, Volume 11

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 153 pages, ebook

While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more

Similar categories in Brian K. Vaughan's Saga, Volume 11 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick

13. Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons

By: Kelly Sue DeConnick

4.49

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Millennia ago, Queen Hera and the goddesses of the Olympian pantheon grew greatly dissatisfied with… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

14. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Cover of The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2) by Garth Nix

15. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

16. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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17. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023 by Neil Clarke

18. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

By: Neil Clarke

4.13

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

Our May 2023 issue (#200) contains: - Original fiction by Naomi Kritzer ("Better Living Through Al… read more

Similar categories in Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Ivy, Angelica, Bay by C.L. Polk

19. Ivy, Angelica, Bay

By: C.L. Polk

4.16

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l'Abielle s… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith

20. Bea Wolf

By: Zach Weinersmith

4.37

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A modern middle-grade graphic novel retelling of Beowulf, featuring a gang of troublemaking kids wh… read more

Similar categories in Zach Weinersmith's Bea Wolf book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • fiction
"Dawn rose, like a jerk."

-Zach Weinersmith, Bea Wolf

"Make no more clouds. I have drawn the rainbow here."

-Zach Weinersmith, Bea Wolf

Cover of St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk

21. St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s … read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Witches of World War II by Paul Cornell

22. The Witches of World War II

By: Paul Cornell

3.13

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Vengefully imaginative occult rewrite of wartime history, full of sharp knife twists, proving yet … read more

Similar categories in Paul Cornell's The Witches of World War II book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • fiction
Cover of Liberty's Daughter by Naomi Kritzer

23. Liberty's Daughter

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Liberty's Daughter book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of I Am AI: A Novelette by Ai Jiang

24. I Am AI: A Novelette

By: Ai Jiang

4.11

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to su… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's I Am AI: A Novelette book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 50, January-February 2023 by Lynne M. Thomas

25. Uncanny Magazine Issue 50, January-February 2023

By: Lynne M. Thomas

3.97

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The January/February 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine . Our landmark Issue 50, a … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Unstoppable #3) by Charlie Jane Anders

26. Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Unstoppable #3)

By: Charlie Jane Anders

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Promises Stronger Than Darkness marks the final installment of the international bestselling author… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Some heartache can only be cured by justice."

-Charlie Jane Anders, Promises Stronger Than Darkness (Unstoppable #3)

Cover of Abeni's Song (Abeni's Song #1) by P. Djèlí Clark

27. Abeni's Song (Abeni's Song #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.93

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

IN DARKNESS, A SONG CAN LEAD THE WAY. BEWARE WHICH ONE YOU LISTEN TO. Abeni's Song by award-winning… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers) by Patrick Parrinder

28. Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)

By: Patrick Parrinder

3.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

If you love the mission of science fiction, the interchange between cultures, the hopeful and inexo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 55: November/December 2023 by Lynne M. Thomas

29. Uncanny Magazine Issue 55: November/December 2023

By: Lynne M. Thomas

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

The November/December 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction b… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Uncanny Magazine, Issue 52, May/June 2023 by Lynne M. Thomas

30. Uncanny Magazine, Issue 52, May/June 2023

By: Lynne M. Thomas

3.43

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

The May/June 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine . Featuring new fiction by Aliett… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Nightmare Magazine, Issue 133, October 2023 by Wendy N. Wagner

31. Nightmare Magazine, Issue 133, October 2023

By: Wendy N. Wagner

3.66

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Issue #133 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Rachael K. Jones ("The Soun… read more

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  • short stories

26 Best fiction books like Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 200, May 2023 by Neil Clarke

Transform Your Habits

The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

Moniquill Blackgoose

4.17

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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