10 must-read science fiction books like This World is Full of Monsters by Jeff VanderMeer

Cover of This World is Full of Monsters by Jeff VanderMeer

This World is Full of Monsters

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

Format: 38 pages, ebook

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death an…

"I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word."

-Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters

"I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word."

-Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters

If you liked the science fiction plot in This World is Full of Monsters by Jeff VanderMeer , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Eye in the Sky by Philip K. Dick

1. Eye in the Sky

By: Philip K. Dick

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

While sightseeing at the Belmont Bevatron, Jack Hamilton, along with seven others, is caught in a l… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. Burning Girls

By: Veronica Schanoes

3.89

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Burning Girls, by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educ… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"Learning and skill are things to be proud of; they are the stars that light the sky of one’s lifetime."

-Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls

3. The Hanging Game

By: Helen Marshall

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, ebook

Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Sky… read more

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4. The Cartography of Sudden Death

By: Charlie Jane Anders

2.69

Format: 88 pages, ebook

Time travel doesn't actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex... When Ythna is sent … read more

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5. The Devil in America

By: Kai Ashante Wilson

4.50

Format: 142 pages, ebook

Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them acr… read more

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6. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.82

Format: 3 pages,

A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more

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7. Tear Tracks

By: Malka Ann Older

3.89

Format: None pages, ebook

Flur traveled across the stars to make first contact with the Cyclopes, hoping to forge a peace tre… read more

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8. Six Months, Three Days

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.73

Format: 216 pages,

Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, bran… read more

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9. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

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10. The Seep

By: Chana Porter

3.66

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Grief is happy memories."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"

-Chana Porter, The Seep

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11. Wild Spaces

By: S.L. Coney

3.51

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life meets H. P. Lovecraft in Wild Spaces, a foreboding, sensual coming-… read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"As funny as he thinks a fish would look, he wonders how the sea felt when her inhabitants started walking away. He wonders if maybe that’s why she keeps eating away at the land, trying to take back w…"

-S.L. Coney, Wild Spaces

Cover of This World is Full of Monsters by Jeff VanderMeer

12. This World is Full of Monsters

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

Format: 38 pages, ebook

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death an… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's This World is Full of Monsters book and Jeff VanderMeer's This World is Full of Monsters

  • new weird
  • novella
  • weird fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word."

-Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters

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13. Small Monsters

By: E. Lily Yu

3.91

Format: 37 pages, ebook

All it’s life, a small monster with emerald scales has been source of never-ending food to larger a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • horror
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14. Blood in the Thread

By: Cheri Kamei

3.86

Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition

Content warning: This story contains fictional depictions of domestic violence.Nothing tears two wo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. After the Animal Flesh Beings

By: Brian Evenson

3.85

Format: 23 pages, ebook

A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

By: Daryl Gregory

3.91

Format: 42 pages, ebook

When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion--… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • fantasy
"He could talk at length about the known invasive species, and why there were so many different ones: the weblike filaments choking the trees in New Orleans, the flame-colored poppies erupting on Mexi…"

-Daryl Gregory, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth

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17. Two Truths and a Lie

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.79

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the st… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"In that moment, she remembered Chris Bethel, pre-transition, playing Viola in Twelfth Night like a person who knew what it was to be shipwrecked on a strange shore. Good for him."

-Sarah Pinsker, Two Truths and a Lie

Cover of Blood Is Another Word for Hunger by Rivers Solomon

18. Blood Is Another Word for Hunger

By: Rivers Solomon

3.67

Format: 25 pages, ebook

Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can gr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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19. The Tale of Ak and Humanity

By: Yefim Zozulya

3.39

Format: 25 pages, ebook

"The Tale of Ak and Humanity" is a Tor.com Original from sci-fi author Yefim Zozula.Citizens are di… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Counting Casualties

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.69

Format: 18 pages, ebook

Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition by Charlie Jane Anders

21. Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.78

Format: 719 pages, ebook

This year on July 20th, Tor dot com turned 15! Since that long-ago year of 2008, we’ve published mo… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

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