10 Top speculative fiction books like The Difference Between Love and Time by Catherynne M. Valente

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The Difference Between Love and Time

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.83

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Tor is pleased to reprint “The Difference Between Love and Time” by Catherynne M. Valente, as featu…

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1. 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 Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo

2. 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 Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

3. 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 Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5) by Seanan McGuire

4. In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.92

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Jack Wolcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible … read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5) book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. D.I.Y

By: John Wiswell

3.76

Format: 25 pages, ebook

When the the elitist institution of Ozymandias Academy and its headmaster, Vamon Kinctuarin, can't … read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's D.I.Y book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • romance
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

6. 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

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow

7. A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured … read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • romance
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"The mirror showed me you, out of all the possible people in all the universes,' It sounds almost like an apology. 'Why?' 'Well, what were you doing at the time?' 'I was looking into the mirror, obvio…"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

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8. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • romance
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

9. 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 Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • romance
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) by Nghi Vo

10. 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 Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. 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 Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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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12. 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 Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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13. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Ogres book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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14. The Difference Between Love and Time

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.83

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Tor is pleased to reprint “The Difference Between Love and Time” by Catherynne M. Valente, as featu… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • romance
  • time travel
  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Ivy, Angelica, Bay by C.L. Polk

15. 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

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Ivy, Angelica, Bay book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The River and the World Remade by E. Lily Yu

16. The River and the World Remade

By: E. Lily Yu

3.47

Format: 13 pages, ebook

When the waters rose, the people who stayed on the River learned they weathered the storms best tog… read more

Similar categories in E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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17. Salt Water

By: Eugenia Triantafyllou

3.62

Format: 18 pages, ebook

While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa's fish becoming somet… read more

Similar categories in Eugenia Triantafyllou's Salt Water book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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18. Also, the Cat

By: Rachel Swirsky

3.32

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest i… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Swirsky's Also, the Cat book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You know, life never made any sense. I guess there’s no reason for the afterlife to."

-Rachel Swirsky, Also, the Cat

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19. The Counterworld

By: James Bradley

2.51

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A grieving mother wakes up to find all traces of her lost son have been erased as if he had never e… read more

Similar categories in James Bradley's The Counterworld book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
Cover of Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3) by Carrie Vaughn

20. Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3)

By: Carrie Vaughn

4.27

Format: 24 pages, ebook

Graff isn’t quite human. His people move through the galaxy collecting memories and experiences, re… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3) book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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21. The Passing of the Dragon

By: Ken Liu

4.10

Format: 46 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman who fears she's failing as a painter and as an artist seeks inspiration from one of her fav… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Passing of the Dragon book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"We’re all doing our best to see the dragon and record its passing."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Seven-and-seventy years in a shoebox, The penciled dates fading, gone, Scales of the dragon I can never know . . ."

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"We’re all trying to tell our own story, And we make other people parts of our own stories. We’re meant to bring our stories together, to speak and listen and know that the stories are real and they m…"

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

"Life is one long story we tell ourselves to make sense of the world, and in our quest for meaning, we make other people players in our own psychomachia. Sometimes the consequence of doing that can be…"

-Ken Liu, The Passing of the Dragon

Cover of How to Cook and Eat the Rich by Sunyi Dean

22. How to Cook and Eat the Rich

By: Sunyi Dean

3.78

Format: 9 pages, ebook

A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for tho… read more

Similar categories in Sunyi Dean's How to Cook and Eat the Rich book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022 by Lynne M. Thomas

23. Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022

By: Lynne M. Thomas

4.17

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

The November/December 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction b… read more

Similar categories in Lynne M. Thomas's Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022 book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of A Dream of Electric Mothers by Wole Talabi

24. A Dream of Electric Mothers

By: Wole Talabi

3.89

Format: 22 pages, ebook

We’re excited to reprint “A Dream of Electric Mothers,” the 2023 Nebula Award–nominated novelette b… read more

Similar categories in Wole Talabi's A Dream of Electric Mothers book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Two hours into the third session of our fourth cabinet meeting on the border dispute with the co-operative kingdom of Dahomey, my colleagues finally agree that we need to seek the dream-counsel of ou…"

-Wole Talabi, A Dream of Electric Mothers

Cover of The Three O’Clock Dragon by John Wiswell

25. The Three O’Clock Dragon

By: John Wiswell

3.80

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing drago… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's The Three O’Clock Dragon book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 47: July/August 2022 by Lynne M. Thomas

26. Uncanny Magazine Issue 47: July/August 2022

By: Lynne M. Thomas

3.72

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

Cover: The Wizard of Light by Kirbi Fagan Editorials: “The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas … read more

Similar categories in Lynne M. Thomas's Uncanny Magazine Issue 47: July/August 2022 book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • romance
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Thief of Memory by Sunyi Dean

27. The Thief of Memory

By: Sunyi Dean

3.75

Format: 26 pages, ebook

The Hero must journey across the desert to capture The Thief Of Memory and retrieve her stolen memo… read more

Similar categories in Sunyi Dean's The Thief of Memory book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 189, June 2022 by Neil Clarke

28. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 189, June 2022

By: Neil Clarke

3.68

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each m… read more

Similar categories in Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 189, June 2022 book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

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

29. 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 Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Even If Such Ways Are Bad by Rich  Larson

30. Even If Such Ways Are Bad

By: Rich Larson

3.54

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

A two-person crew embark on a mind-bending deep space mission inside a living wormship capable of b… read more

Similar categories in Rich Larson's Even If Such Ways Are Bad book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022 by Neil Clarke

31. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

By: Neil Clarke

3.75

Format: 225 pages, ebook

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each m… read more

Similar categories in Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022 book and Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

27 must-read fiction books like The Difference Between Love and Time by Catherynne M. Valente

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

Transform Your Habits

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

Nghi Vo

4.24

Transform Your Habits

In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)

Seanan McGuire

3.92

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21 must-read fiction books like How to Cook and Eat the Rich by Sunyi Dean

Transform Your Habits

On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

Lavie Tidhar

4.02

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The River and the World Remade

E. Lily Yu

3.47

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Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale

Kathleen Jennings

3.00

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