16 Best science fiction fantasy books like Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1) by Lina Rather

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Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

By: Lina Rather

4.01

Format: 176 pages, ebook

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina …

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1) by Lina Rather , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Malagash

By: Joey Comeau

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A precisely crafted, darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning. Sunday's father is dying of … read more

Similar categories in Joey Comeau's Malagash book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • novella
  • fiction
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2. The Cybernetic Tea Shop

By: Meredith Katz

3.90

Format: 205 pages, ebook

Clara Gutierrez is a highly-skilled technician specializing in the popular 'Raise' AI companions. H… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Katz's The Cybernetic Tea Shop book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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3. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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4. 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

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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5. 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
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

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6. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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7. 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 Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • queer
"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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8. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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9. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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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

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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11. Child of Another Kind

By: Steven Decker

4.29

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

A little girl can look at someone and know their past. How? Why? Single mom Cynthia Pace has he… read more

Similar categories in Steven Decker's Child of Another Kind book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"No,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"Teacher,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"We do not sleep,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"They came for me the next morning."

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

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12. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • novella
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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14. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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15. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

By: Samit Basu

3.59

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rul… read more

Similar categories in Samit Basu's The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
"You exist, and you deserve to belong."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else"

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"It's all very clear, I just chose not to get it, I just decided everyone who didn't agree with my vision was lying, or a fool."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"I don't want to talk about this. It's not that I think you're wrong, but it's too big for me. I'll never be able to do anything about it."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

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16. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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17. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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18. 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 Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • queer
"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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19. We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep

By: Andrew Kelly Stewart

3.78

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Remy is a Chorister, one of the chosen few rescued from the surface world and raised to sing the Ho… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Kelly Stewart's We Shall Sing a Song Into the Deep book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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21. 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

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

By: Lina Rather

4.01

Format: 176 pages, ebook

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina … read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1) book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • queer
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23. Emergent Properties

By: Aimee Ogden

3.57

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brew… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Ogden's Emergent Properties book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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24. If Found, Return to Hell

By: Em X. Liu

3.83

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Being an intern at One Wizard sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yell… read more

Similar categories in Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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25. The Navigating Fox

By: Christopher Rowe

3.74

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an expeditio… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Rowe's The Navigating Fox book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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26. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. The First Sister (The First Sister Trilogy, #1)

By: Linden A. Lewis

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alon… read more

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  • lgbt
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • queer
"Go to sleep, I sing. “No,"

-Linden A. Lewis, The First Sister (The First Sister Trilogy, #1)

"Isn’t that what growing up means, learning to be disappointed by your parents? You’ve said it is accepting them as human, but that’s the same damn thing, Lito. Seeing your parents as humans instead o…"

-Linden A. Lewis, The First Sister (The First Sister Trilogy, #1)

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28. The Wings Upon Her Back

By: Samantha Mills

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A loyal warrior in a crisis of faith must fight to regain her place and begin her life again while … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Mills's The Wings Upon Her Back book and Lina Rather's Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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29. Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

By: A.R. Merrydew

4.43

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The third book in the series, ‘Inara’, prepares the reader for the aftermath of Godfrey, and his fr… read more

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"Isn’t this exciting!"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"We might even make this after all,’ he hollered, but the craft didn’t reply."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"If any of them fail me, I will flush them from an airlock into the pit of space, like an unwanted turd. Do I make myself clear?"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"Well at least one of you present here today, has the scaly green balls to give me an honest answer,’ he said, as he broke into a hearty lizard laugh."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

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30. Miranda in Milan

By: Katharine Duckett

3.51

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

With Miranda in Milan, debut author Katharine Duckett reimagines the consequences of Shakespeare’s … read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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31. Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters

By: Aimee Ogden

3.41

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments a… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer

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