5 Best speculative fiction books like The Job at the End of the World by Ray Nayler

Cover of The Job at the End of the World by Ray Nayler

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..…

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in The Job at the End of the World by Ray Nayler , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Detonation Boulevard by Alastair Reynolds

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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6) by Lavie Tidhar

3. The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.98

Format: 32 pages, ebook

While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge Dee and Jonathan disc… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6) book and Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • short stories
  • fiction
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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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • short stories
Cover of Also, the Cat by Rachel Swirsky

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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • 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

Cover of Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale by Kathleen Jennings

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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • speculative fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • near future
Cover of The Passing of the Dragon by Ken Liu

9. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"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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10. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of After the Animal Flesh Beings by Brian Evenson

11. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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12. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • short stories
Cover of Form 8774-D by Alex Irvine

13. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Counting Casualties by Yoon Ha Lee

14. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener by Ramsey Shehadeh

15. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Jack O'Dander by Priya Sharma

16. Jack O'Dander

By: Priya Sharma

3.70

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

The sister of an abducted child is haunted by a sinister figure who may or may not be real. . . … read more

Similar categories in Priya Sharma's Jack O'Dander book and Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • short stories
Cover of The Three O’Clock Dragon by John Wiswell

17. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of The Canadian Miracle by Cory Doctorow

18. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

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

19. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Headhunting by Rich  Larson

20. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • short stories
Cover of What It Means To Be A Car by James Patrick Kelly

21. 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 Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World

  • science fiction
  • short stories

14 Best fiction books like The Job at the End of the World by Ray Nayler

Transform Your Habits

Detonation Boulevard

Alastair Reynolds

3.83

Transform Your Habits

On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6)

Lavie Tidhar

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Also, the Cat

Rachel Swirsky

3.32

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13 Top fiction books like On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo

Transform Your Habits

The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

Aliette de Bodard

3.89

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

The Saint of Bright Doors

Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

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