16 best-selling science fiction fantasy books like The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler

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The Necessity of Stars

By: E. Catherine Tobler

3.79

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Plagued by the creeping loss of her memory, diplomat Bréone Hemmerli continues to negotiate peace i…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Home (Binti, #2) by Nnedi Okorafor

1. Home (Binti, #2)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 260 pages, ebook

It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

2. Ironclads

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Special limited edition sceince fiction hardcover novella by the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning aut… read more

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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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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) by Malka Ann Older

4. 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

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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5. One Day All This Will Be Yours

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.04

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The bold new work from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky  - a smart, funny tale of time-trave… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Who’d have ever thought I’d find a soulmate in the end times? Not me, obviously, what with my trying my damnedest to eliminate the rest of the human race."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

"I honestly think someone invented the time machine just so they could go grab a burger when the urge took them. Anyway, turns out saving the planet by eating soy was a bit of a non-starter given how …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

"And even if I met a fellow agent who seemed to jibe with me, no guarantee they’d be the same when I rendezvoused with them later and/or earlier (let me tell you, it’s frankly embarrassing to clap you…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

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6. 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

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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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7. 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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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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8. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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9. 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

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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10. Flowers for the Sea

By: Zin E. Rocklyn

3.43

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Oct… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. 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
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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12. Ogres

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

A bleak glimpse of a world of savage tyrants, from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky in a bea… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky  Chambers

13. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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14. And What Can We Offer You Tonight

By: Premee Mohamed

3.60

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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15. The Necessity of Stars

By: E. Catherine Tobler

3.79

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Plagued by the creeping loss of her memory, diplomat Bréone Hemmerli continues to negotiate peace i… read more

Similar categories in E. Catherine Tobler's The Necessity of Stars book and E. Catherine Tobler's The Necessity of Stars

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1) by Moses Ose Utomi

16. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)

By: Moses Ose Utomi

4.21

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard

17. Fireheart Tiger

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.40

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

Cover of The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente

18. The Past Is Red

By: Catherynne M. Valente

4.11

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Ci… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"The day I met her I knew I was never gonna be the girl from before I heard her voice ever again."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"But you can't ever imagine what you're going to care about when you turn into the version of you that’s waiting on the other side of five years from now. That’s a stranger waiting to ambush you, and …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"She listens, and I wish I could give her a little gold trophy for it, but I can’t, because of all the things Fuckwits gave trophies for, they never thought listening like nothing exists but time and …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

Cover of Machinehood by S.B. Divya

19. Machinehood

By: S.B. Divya

3.65

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

A science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near fut… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"The more things changed, the more they stayed the same."

-S.B. Divya, Machinehood

"Technology was as habit-forming as every escapist, feel-good drug"

-S.B. Divya, Machinehood

"What would be the long-term consequences for a dakini revolution? Every technological advancement had consequences."

-S.B. Divya, Machinehood

"Her people attacked me, and I defended myself. We believe that she is responsible for crimes against human- and machine kind. We believe that the governments of Earth have failed to protect their peo…"

-S.B. Divya, Machinehood

Cover of Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden

20. 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
  • fantasy
Cover of Empire of the Feast by Bendi Barrett

21. Empire of the Feast

By: Bendi Barrett

4.16

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

In Empire of the Feast, we awaken with Riverson, 32nd ruler of the Stag Empire, as he attempts to g… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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20 must-read fiction books like The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler

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Home (Binti, #2)

Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

Malka Ann Older

4.01

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.04

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Seanan McGuire

4.09

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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Martha Wells

4.22

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

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