22 best-selling science fiction books like The Counterworld by James Bradley

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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…

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Counterworld by James Bradley , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • novella
  • short stories
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2. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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3. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • short stories
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4. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • short stories
"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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5. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • short stories
  • adult
  • horror
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6. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • novella
  • short stories
  • horror
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7. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • novella
  • short stories
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Job at the End of the World by Ray Nayler

8. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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9. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
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10. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • adult
"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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11. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • horror
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12. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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13. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • novella
  • short stories
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
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14. The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie

By: Kathleen Jennings

3.47

Format: 32 pages, ebook

In a fairy tale equal parts gorgeous and gruesome, village couples seek approval for marriage from … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Jennings's The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie book and James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • novella
  • short stories
  • adult
  • horror
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15. Form 8774-D

By: Alex Irvine

3.91

Format: 54 pages, ebook

It’s just business as usual at the Bureau of Metahuman, Mutant, and Occult Affairs until an employe… read more

Similar categories in Alex Irvine's Form 8774-D book and James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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16. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
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17. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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18. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • adult
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19. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • short stories
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20. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • 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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21. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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22. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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23. Fruiting Bodies

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.31

Format: 16 pages, ebook

An alien fungal infection has ravaged a faraway planet, turning all but six of the colonists into r… read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's Fruiting Bodies book and James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • horror
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24. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • short stories
  • horror
Cover of The Sufficient Loss Protocol by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

25. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • horror
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26. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
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27. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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28. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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29. Headhunting

By: Rich Larson

3.61

Format: 36 pages, ebook

A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk’s head stolen from a … read more

Similar categories in Rich Larson's Headhunting book and James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • short stories
  • horror
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30. 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 James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • short stories
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31. I'll Miss Myself

By: John Wiswell

3.82

Format: 26 pages, ebook

A man using a social media app that reaches across dimensions to talk to himself in different timel… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's I'll Miss Myself book and James Bradley's The Counterworld

  • science fiction
  • short stories

10 must-read adult books like The Counterworld by James Bradley

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The Sound of Reindeer

Lyndsie Manusos

2.78

Transform Your Habits

The Counterworld

James Bradley

2.51

Transform Your Habits

Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3)

Carrie Vaughn

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Passing of the Dragon

Ken Liu

4.10

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On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

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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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Kathleen Jennings

3.00

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