11 Best science fiction fantasy books like Touched by Walter Mosley

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Touched

By: Walter Mosley

3.38

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and nearly compl…

"It occurred to me, bowing there before my executioner, that ever since the beginning, life had not died. There was a spark somewhere a billion or more years ago and the flame of life had risen and raged, waned and sputtered, only to grow once more, spreading across the world. Death had never triumphed over life. I was part of a great conflagration that had kept itself ablaze for ages."

-Walter Mosley, Touched

"It occurred to me, bowing there before my executioner, that ever since the beginning, life had not died. There was a spark somewhere a billion or more years ago and the flame of life had risen and raged, waned and sputtered, only to grow once more, spreading across the world. Death had never triumphed over life. I was part of a great conflagration that had kept itself ablaze for ages."

-Walter Mosley, Touched

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Touched by Walter Mosley , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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2. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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3. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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4. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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5. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Harbor Lights

By: James Lee Burke

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” ( Denver Post ), the… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Harbor Lights book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Alderman's The Future book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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8. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Peele's Out There Screaming book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

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9. The Hive and the Honey: Stories

By: Paul Yoon

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times , Time , and Literary Hub most-anticipated book of the fall. From the beloved a… read more

Similar categories in Paul Yoon's The Hive and the Honey: Stories book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • adult
  • fiction
"We have this life, and then we become something else. Wouldn't you agree? You have had this life but soon, tomorrow, you will become someone else, with someone else. You mustn't be afraid of change l…"

-Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey: Stories

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10. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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11. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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12. Mal Goes to War: A Novel

By: Edward Ashton

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and… read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mal Goes to War: A Novel book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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14. Exordia

By: Seth Dickinson

3.78

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's Exordia book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Big Time

By: Ben H. Winters

3.43

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Ben Winters, whom critics attest  "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's Big Time book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Death I Gave Him

By: Em X. Liu

3.37

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller Hayden Lichf… read more

Similar categories in Em X. Liu's The Death I Gave Him book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
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17. Touched

By: Walter Mosley

3.38

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and nearly compl… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Touched book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • magical realism
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It occurred to me, bowing there before my executioner, that ever since the beginning, life had not died. There was a spark somewhere a billion or more years ago and the flame of life had risen and ra…"

-Walter Mosley, Touched

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18. The Honor of Your Presence

By: Dave Eggers

3.48

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Pe… read more

Similar categories in Dave Eggers's The Honor of Your Presence book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
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19. Three Fires

By: Denise Mina

3.73

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Three Fires book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • novella
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Oxygen Farmer

By: Colin Holmes

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sabotage, murder, cover-ups. Just another day on the Moon. After 35 years of living on the Moon, cr… read more

Similar categories in Colin Holmes's The Oxygen Farmer book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1) by Nnedi Okorafor

21. Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Niger, West Africa, 2074 It is an era of tainted technology and mysterious mysticism. A great c… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1) book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Shadow Speaker (The Desert Magician's Duology, #1)

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22. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

By: Molly McGhee

3.50

Format: 304 pages, None

Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more

Similar categories in Molly McGhee's Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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23. The Black Box: Writing the Race

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define… read more

Similar categories in Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s The Black Box: Writing the Race book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • adult
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24. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Schiff's Information Desk: An Epic book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. American Ending

By: Mary Kay Zuravleff

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A woman growing up in a family of Russian immigrants in the 1910s seeks a thoroughly American life.… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kay Zuravleff's American Ending book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • fiction
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26. The Invisible Hotel

By: Yeji Y. Ham

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A work of literary horror in the gothic tradition, The Invisible Hotel is a startling, speculative … read more

Similar categories in Yeji Y. Ham's The Invisible Hotel book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • adult
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • horror
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27. Don't Let the Devil Ride

By: Ace Atkins

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“An instant Southern noir classic” –S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thri… read more

Similar categories in Ace Atkins's Don't Let the Devil Ride book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On by Malaika Jabali

28. It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On

By: Malaika Jabali

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A biting, brilliant, often hilarious guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists who know it’s … read more

Similar categories in Malaika Jabali's It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song

29. Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl

By: Hyeseung Song

4.13

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

For readers of Crying in H Mart and Minor Feelings as well as lovers of the film Minari comes a sea… read more

Similar categories in Hyeseung Song's Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl book and Walter Mosley's Touched

  • adult
  • audiobook

30. Touched

By: Walter Mosely

3.24

Format: None pages, None

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