12 best-selling short stories books like The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun by Aliette de Bodard

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The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.91

Format: 77 pages, ebook

Three Short stories in the Xuya Universe, setting of other stories by Alliette de Bodard. Original…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun by Aliette de Bodard , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 69 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #69) by Aliette de Bodard, Daniel Abraham, E. Catherine Tobler, Neil Clarke, None, An Owomoyela, Stephen Gaskell

1. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 69 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #69)

By: Aliette de Bodard , Daniel Abraham , E. Catherine Tobler , Neil Clarke , None , An Owomoyela , Stephen Gaskell

3.15

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

FICTION "Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard "If The Mountain Comes" by An Owomoyela "You Were She Who … read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 69 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #69) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy

2. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 32 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #32)

By: Nnedi Okorafor , Neil Clarke , Alex Dally MacFarlane , None , Brian Dow

3.59

Format: 128 pages,

FICTION "From the Lost Diary of TreeFrog7" by Nnedi Okorafor "The Devonshire Arms" by Alex Dally Ma… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 32 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #32) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

3. Meeting Infinity

By: Aliette de Bodard , Ian McDonald , Yoon Ha Lee , Gregory Benford , Sean Williams , Nancy Kress , Simon Ings , James S.A. Corey , Benjanun Sriduangkaew , None , Gwyneth Jones , John Barnes , Bruce Sterling , Kameron Hurley , Madeline Ashby , An Owomoyela , Ramez Naam

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Continuing the award-nominated SF anthology series from multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Stra… read more

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4. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 124 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #124)

By: Aliette de Bodard , Rich Larson , John Kessel , Neil Clarke , Kelly Robson , Lettie Prell , Gary Kloster , None , Emanuela Valentini , None , None , Vina Jie-Min Prasad

3.92

Format: 314 pages, ebook

FICTION "The Ghost Ship Anastasia" by Rich Larson "A Series of Steaks" by Vina Jie-Min Prasad "Just… read more

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5. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
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6. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Thornhedge book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • fantasy
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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7. Illuminations

By: T. Kingfisher

4.07

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Rosa Mandolini knows in her heart that her family are the greatest painters of magical illumination… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Illuminations book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • fantasy
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8. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fantasy
  • space
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

Cover of Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) by Mur Lafferty

9. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • space
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10. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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11. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8) by Seanan McGuire

12. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.32

Format: 208 pages, ebook

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • fantasy
"They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Then you found a door that said to be sure, and you were sure, you were already sure, you were so sure that when you tried the knob, it wasn't locked, and you could walk right through."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people …"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

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13. 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

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • 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

Cover of A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow

14. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • fantasy
"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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15. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

16. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • space
  • fantasy
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17. Tread of Angels

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.48

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Celeste, a card sharp with a penchant for trouble, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defen… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Tread of Angels book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • fantasy
"He’s playing some kind of game. One I haven’t quite unraveled yet. But I know a man looking to cheat when I see one, and Ibrahim is as sharp as they come. But he’s underestimated me, Mariel. Underest…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Tread of Angels

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18. The Spear Cuts Through Water

By: Simon Jimenez

4.19

Format: 525 pages, Hardcover

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal fa… read more

Similar categories in Simon Jimenez's The Spear Cuts Through Water book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"There is no correct way to shake hands with pain."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"They fought because it was the easiest language they spoke."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

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19. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • fantasy
"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

20. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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21. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fantasy
  • space
"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

Cover of Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer by Garth Nix

22. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer

By: Garth Nix

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author Garth Nix’s exciting adult debut: a new collection including all… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

23. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1) by Genevieve Cogman

24. Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

By: Genevieve Cogman

3.67

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Revolution is a bloodthirsty business . . . especially when vampires are involved. It is 1793 an… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Cogman's Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1) book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • fantasy
"Free speech may be part of the ideal of any revolution, but soon enough it becomes free speech only where the government approves of it."

-Genevieve Cogman, Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1)

Cover of Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 by Jason Sizemore

25. Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

By: Jason Sizemore

4.49

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-b… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
"I’m not a natural rule-follower. I roll through stop signs, I swear in public, I lie on online personality tests so I get the answers I want (Hermione, Arya Stark, Jo March)."

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"He took The Runaway Prince home and renewed it twice online, at which point a gray pop-up box that looks like an emissary from 1995 tells you, “the renewal limit for this item has been reached."

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"The boy returned at ten-thirty on a Tuesday morning. It’s official library policy to report truants to the high school, because the school board felt we were becoming 'a haven for unsupervised and il…"

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"God save me from the yearners. The insatiable, the inconsolable, the ones who chafe and claw against the edges of the world. No book can save them. (That’s a lie. There are Books potent enough to sav…"

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

Cover of The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun by Aliette de Bodard

26. The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.91

Format: 77 pages, ebook

Three Short stories in the Xuya Universe, setting of other stories by Alliette de Bodard. Original… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

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

27. 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 Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

28. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • fantasy
Cover of Mission: Critical by Jonathan Strahan

29. Mission: Critical

By: Jonathan Strahan

3.72

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

New anthology from the critically-acclaimed editor of Engineering Infinity.SPACE IS DANGEROUS The g… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Strahan's Mission: Critical book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • space opera
Cover of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #298, Special Double-Issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 5 by Scott H. Andrews

30. Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #298, Special Double-Issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 5

By: Scott H. Andrews

3.73

Format: 90 pages, Kindle Edition

Issue #298 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, a special double-issue for BCS Science-Fanta… read more

Similar categories in Scott H. Andrews's Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #298, Special Double-Issue for BCS Science-Fantasy Month 5 book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Six by Scott H. Andrews

31. The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Six

By: Scott H. Andrews

3.50

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Twenty-two more short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the three… read more

Similar categories in Scott H. Andrews's The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year Six book and Aliette de Bodard's The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy

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