9 Top short stories books like The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4) by Neon Yang

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The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

By: Neon Yang

3.99

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The Protector is dead. For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image …

If you liked the short stories plot in The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4) by Neon Yang , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. When the Moon Was Ours

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.89

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses… read more

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  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"No boy was ever so interesting to them as when he was interesting to someone else."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours

"She wanted you to have the life you wanted,' Aracely said. 'So figure out what kind of life you want."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours

"He wanted to be a girl who wanted to be a girl, or a boy who was, in a way no one could question, a boy."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours

"They're expected to forget everything they knew about being anything other than what they're supposed to be."

-Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours

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2. Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)

By: Tanith Lee

4.04

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Azhrarn, Prince of Demons, delights in creating amazing rewards, dangers, and horrors for the inhab… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified."

-Tanith Lee, Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)

"When the night burned its cloak in the sunrise..."

-Tanith Lee, Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)

"Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine"

-Tanith Lee, Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)

"and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event"

-Tanith Lee, Night's Master (Tales from the Flat Earth #1)

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3. Scale-Bright

By: Benjanun Sriduangkaew

3.79

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

Julienne’s aunts are the archer who shot down the suns and the woman who lives on the moon. They te… read more

Similar categories in Benjanun Sriduangkaew's Scale-Bright book and Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"What is it that you long for best, that clenches teeth and claws over the ventricles of your heart?"

-Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Scale-Bright

"What do you do with humans? You eat from them just a little, if they are delicious. You delight in their flesh sometimes, if they are not tedious."

-Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Scale-Bright

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4. El informe Monteverde

By: Lola Robles

3.87

Format: 400 pages,

A principios de siglo, la Sociedad para el Estudio de las Lenguas Interestelares envio a la linguis… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1) by Zen Cho

5. Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1)

By: Zen Cho

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Magic and mayhem collide with the British elite in this whimsical and sparkling debut. At his wit's… read more

Similar categories in Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown (Sorcerer Royal, #1) book and Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • fantasy
  • fiction

6. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

By: Patricia A. McKillip

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Sixteen when a baby is brought to her to raise, Sybel has grown up on Eld Mountain. Her only playma… read more

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7. The Philosopher Kings (Thessaly, #2)

By: Jo Walton

3.59

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed, award-winning author Jo Walton: Philosopher Kings, a tale of gods and humans, and t… read more

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8. Waiting on a Bright Moon: A Tor.com Original

By: J.Y. Yang

3.84

Format: None pages,

Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and it… read more

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9. Of Sorrow and Such

By: Angela Slatter

4.45

Format: 864 pages, ebook

Mistress Gideon is a witch. The locals of Edda's Meadow, if they suspect it of her, say nary a word… read more

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10. The Terracotta Bride

By: Zen Cho

4.21

Format: 539 pages,

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11. Spear

By: Nicola Griffith

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cav… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"My lord."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"I never knew my father,"

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Even the dead had names."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

"Now his knowledge was her knowledge."

-Nicola Griffith, Spear

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

12. 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 Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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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13. 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 Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3) by P. Djèlí Clark

14. The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.98

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 returns to the alternate Cairo of Clark's short fiction, where humans … read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.3) book and Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) by Nghi Vo

16. 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 Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2) by Nghi Vo

17. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

By: Nghi Vo

4.18

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ach… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2) book and Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Oh yes. Some people are just more . . . edible than others if you are a tiger."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"She killed, for she was angry, and she did not eat what she killed, for she was heartsick."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

"Now your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind."

-Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle, #2)

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18. The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

By: Saad Z. Hossain

4.06

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Cuando Melek Ahmar, uno de los siete Señores Djinn, despierta de su encierro milenario, apenas reco… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Gurung smiled. "I know just where to find many people needing decapitation. But first, a nap."

-Saad Z. Hossain, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

"Vomit, piss, blood, and unlikely amounts of semen pooled on almost every level surface, accompanied by lewd graffiti and knife marks gouging the walls, as well as various fist-sized holes, burns, aci…"

-Saad Z. Hossain, The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday

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19. The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

By: Nghi Vo

3.95

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

A young royal from the far north is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"[,,,] if you want to understand people who have gone, that's what you look at, isn't it? Their offal. Their leavings."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind."

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

"... He was unimportant, the least of In-yo's spies and couriers, but—" Almost Brilliant fluttered her wings in the dying light. "I understand. I will remember Sukai for you, and so will my children a…"

-Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle, #1)

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20. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums book and Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4) by Neon Yang

21. The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

By: Neon Yang

3.99

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

The Protector is dead. For fifty years, the Protector ruled, reshaping her country in her image … read more

Similar categories in Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4) book and Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Noches de Navidad by Patricia García-Rojo

22. Noches de Navidad

By: Patricia García-Rojo

3.98

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Cuentos de Navidad repletos de encanto y brujería, narrados por la poderosa pluma de nuestras autor… read more

Similar categories in Patricia García-Rojo's Noches de Navidad book and Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • short stories
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23. La quinta bruja

By: Angela Slatter

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Las calles de Whitechapel destilan secretos, brujería y muerte. Kit Caswell es una joven policía… read more

Similar categories in Angela Slatter's La quinta bruja book and Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • fiction
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24. In the Watchful City

By: S. Qiouyi Lu

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the Watchful City explores borders, power, diaspora, and transformation in an Asian-inspired mos… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

25. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

By: Zen Cho

3.63

Format: 176 pages, ebook

Zen Cho returns with a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial … read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Nobody talks about it. It’s not that kind of war."

-Zen Cho, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

"You cannot stay rich in times like these without eating sin."

-Zen Cho, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water

Cover of Monje y robot (Monk and Robot, #1-2) by Becky  Chambers

26. Monje y robot (Monk and Robot, #1-2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.19

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Le hermane Dex nunca ha escuchado el canto de los grillos. Aunque lleva una vida plena y tranqui… read more

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  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is … it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live."

-Becky Chambers, Monje y robot (Monk and Robot, #1-2)

Cover of The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal, #2) by Zen Cho

27. The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal, #2)

By: Zen Cho

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When sisters Muna and Sakti wake up on the peaceful beach of the island of Janda Baik, they can't r… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Zacharias was never so ill-bred as to say, “I told you so,"

-Zen Cho, The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal, #2)

"But Prunella would never dream of allowing conscience to prevent her from helping her friends."

-Zen Cho, The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal, #2)

"I shall lay the path for you. There is no reason you should run into any trouble, provided you are sensible."

-Zen Cho, The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal, #2)

"You like the gentleman, then?" said Muna. "I don't dislike him," said Henrietta unpromisingly. [...] "I don't dislike cabbage," Muna found herself saying, "but I should not consider marrying it. Not …"

-Zen Cho, The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal, #2)

Cover of Let the Mountains Be My Grave by Francesca  Tacchi

28. Let the Mountains Be My Grave

By: Francesca Tacchi

4.08

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Let the Mountains Be My Grave unfolds at breakneck pace in 1944 Italy, where partisan Veleno thinks… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Tacchi's Let the Mountains Be My Grave book and Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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29. Unholy Land

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Lior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Siempre nos quedará Seúl by Mikey Fernández

30. Siempre nos quedará Seúl

By: Mikey Fernández

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Un retelling libre y LGTBI+ en clave de boys love / drama coreano de Persuasión, una de las novelas… read more

Similar categories in Mikey Fernández's Siempre nos quedará Seúl book and Neon Yang's The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4)

  • queer
Cover of The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar by Indra Das

31. The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar

By: Indra Das

4.22

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

Ru is a boy from nowhere. Though he lives somewhere—the city of Calcutta—his classmates in school r… read more

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

24 must-read fiction books like The Ascent to Godhood (Tensorate, #4) by Neon Yang

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When the Moon Was Ours

Anna-Marie McLemore

3.89

Transform Your Habits

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Tanith Lee

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Scale-Bright

Benjanun Sriduangkaew

3.79

Transform Your Habits

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Lola Robles

3.87

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Seanan McGuire

4.09

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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Martha Wells

4.22

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