The Past Is Red
By: Catherynne M. Valente
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Ci…
Want to Read $ 11.99"The day I met her I knew I was never gonna be the girl from before I heard her voice ever again."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
"The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
"But you can't ever imagine what you're going to care about when you turn into the version of you that’s waiting on the other side of five years from now. That’s a stranger waiting to ambush you, and all you can do is plant your feet and try not to get thrown."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
"She listens, and I wish I could give her a little gold trophy for it, but I can’t, because of all the things Fuckwits gave trophies for, they never thought listening like nothing exists but time and words was half as important as losing a volleyball tournament."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
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1. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
By: Seanan McGuire
4.09
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Dinosaurs and portals, and a girl who can find both in the latest book in the Hugo and Nebula Award… read more
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- novella
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- fantasy
- audiobook
"Because all the ways we're not normal are the way our normal homes want us to be."-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"We're your penance, silly, the whole chaotic bunch of us, and as part of your penance, I say you're not done suffering us yet."-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"If you want a life without terrible surprises, you should always look at the worst possible answer until you understand it all the way down to the bottom. Once you can do that, you'll know what's com…"-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
"None of us is normal, and we'll either figure out how to pretend we are, or we'll find our doors home, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore, because all the ways we are not normal are the…"-Seanan McGuire, Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)
2. 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
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- science fiction
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- fiction
3. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
By: Martha Wells
4.22
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more
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- novella
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- adult
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- audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
4. Elder Race
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.11
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more
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- novella
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- fantasy
5. 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
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- novella
- science fiction fantasy
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- fantasy
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"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)
6. 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
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- novella
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- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
7. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
By: Becky Chambers
None
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more
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8. A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
By: Alix E. Harrow
3.62
Format: 119 pages, Hardcover
It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she… read more
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"Well, Harold,"-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
"If you like something, like it hard, because you don't have a lot of time to waste"-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
"I should have spent more time thinking about your life than worrying about your death."-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
"I never stopped trying to save you, so don't you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself."-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)
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
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- novella
- 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
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
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- novella
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- fantasy
- audiobook
11. 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
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12. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
By: Becky Chambers
4.41
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more
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- novella
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- adult
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"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
13. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)
By: Moses Ose Utomi
4.21
Format: 87 pages, Hardcover
Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more
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14. Fireheart Tiger
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.40
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more
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- novella
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"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
15. The Past Is Red
By: Catherynne M. Valente
4.11
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Ci… read more
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- post apocalyptic
- novella
- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The day I met her I knew I was never gonna be the girl from before I heard her voice ever again."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
"The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works."-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
"But you can't ever imagine what you're going to care about when you turn into the version of you that’s waiting on the other side of five years from now. That’s a stranger waiting to ambush you, and …"-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
"She listens, and I wish I could give her a little gold trophy for it, but I can’t, because of all the things Fuckwits gave trophies for, they never thought listening like nothing exists but time and …"-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red
16. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
By: Nino Cipri
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition
MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more
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"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
17. The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert, #2)
By: Moses Ose Utomi
4.17
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
Moses Ose Utomi returns to his Forever Desert series with The Truth of the Aleke , continuing his e… read more
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18. We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2)
By: Premee Mohamed
3.98
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds Traveling al… read more
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19. The Siege of Burning Grass
By: Premee Mohamed
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A stunning meditation on war, nationalism, violence and courage by a rising star of the genre. T… read more
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- adult
- dystopia
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- science fiction
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- fantasy
20. Questa storia non è la storia
By: John Wiswell
4.15
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
Vincitore Premio LocusFinalista Premio NebulaFinalista Premio Hugo…"Loro non capiscono cosa signifi… read more
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