31 Top short stories books like The River and the World Remade by E. Lily Yu

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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…

If you liked the short stories plot in The River and the World Remade by E. Lily Yu , here is a list of 31 books like this:

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1. Detonation Boulevard

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, … read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • short stories
  • fiction
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3. 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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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4. 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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • short stories
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5. 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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • short stories
  • 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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6. Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale

By: Kathleen Jennings

3.00

Format: 4 pages, Kindle Edition

Delicately balancing between poetry and prose, award-winning author and illustrator Kathleen Jennin… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Jennings's Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. The Sound of Reindeer

By: Lyndsie Manusos

2.78

Format: 23 pages, ebook

Ada’s holiday trip to meet her girlfriend’s family becomes a bit more fraught than usual when she d… read more

Similar categories in Lyndsie Manusos's The Sound of Reindeer book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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8. The Dark House

By: A.C. Wise

3.20

Format: 22 pages, ebook

A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t b… read more

Similar categories in A.C. Wise's The Dark House book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. 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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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10. The Job at the End of the World

By: Ray Nayler

3.76

Format: 21 pages, ebook

A weary resilience worker should know better than no one is safe when the world is always ending..… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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11. 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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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12. 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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
"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

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13. The Puppetmaster

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.71

Format: 15 pages, ebook

A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken...and … read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Puppetmaster book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. 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

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's After the Animal Flesh Beings book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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15. 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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. Ceffo

By: Jonathan Carroll

3.69

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Carroll's Ceffo book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • short stories
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17. The River Judge

By: S.L. Huang

4.01

Format: 42 pages, ebook

In this prequel novelette to the critically acclaimed The Water Outlaws, nine-year-old Li Li is int… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's The River Judge book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. 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

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Counting Casualties book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener

By: Ramsey Shehadeh

3.68

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

After a fraught, improbably long life, a post-apocalyptic archivist resigned to cataloging ephemera… read more

Similar categories in Ramsey Shehadeh's The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit by K.J. Parker

20. Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit

By: K.J. Parker

3.78

Format: 27 pages, ebook

A talented bookbinder is tasked with creating a copy of a text so inflammatory it threatens to alte… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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21. The Star-Bear

By: Michael Swanwick

3.31

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

A Russian émigré poet living in Paris is visited by a mysterious bear with an agenda… At the Pub… read more

Similar categories in Michael Swanwick's The Star-Bear book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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22. 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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
"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

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23. An Easy Job

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.99

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

An Easy Job is a short story from Carrie Vaughn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Kitty… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's An Easy Job book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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24. 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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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25. The Canadian Miracle

By: Cory Doctorow

3.61

Format: 23 pages, ebook

Short fiction from science fiction author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow!A contentious ele… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Canadian Miracle book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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26. Pretty Good Neighbor

By: Jeffrey Ford

3.22

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands... At th… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • short stories
  • fiction
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27. The Sufficient Loss Protocol

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.41

Format: 29 pages, ebook

When an alien entity sneaks aboard a corporate spaceship, with no motive besides sabotaging the mis… read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Sufficient Loss Protocol book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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28. Sinew and Steel and What They Told (Graff, #2)

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.85

Format: 23 pages, ebook

Pilot Graff has been keeping a big secret from his closest friends, the captain and crew of a pirat… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Sinew and Steel and What They Told (Graff, #2) book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Not the Most Romantic Thing (Graff, #4) by Carrie Vaughn

29. Not the Most Romantic Thing (Graff, #4)

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.94

Format: 32 pages, ebook

On one of their earliest Visigoth assignments, Graff and Ell stumble into each other’s secrets (and… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Not the Most Romantic Thing (Graff, #4) book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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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 E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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31. What It Means To Be A Car

By: James Patrick Kelly

3.61

Format: 15 pages, ebook

An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt… read more

Similar categories in James Patrick Kelly's What It Means To Be A Car book and E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade

  • science fiction
  • short stories

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Alastair Reynolds

3.83

Transform Your Habits

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4.04

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3.47

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3.32

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4.04

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Lavie Tidhar

4.02

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E. Lily Yu

3.47

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