30 must-read fiction books like Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021 by Neil Clarke

Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021 by Neil Clarke

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

By: Neil Clarke

4.13

Format: 199 pages, ebook

FICTION Little Animals by Nancy Kress Poubelle by Robert Reed Bots of the Lost Ark by Suzanne Pa…

If you liked the fiction plot in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021 by Neil Clarke , here is a list of 30 books like this:

Cover of The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) by Aliette de Bodard

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

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

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

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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3. 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 Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

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4. 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 Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. 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 Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

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

-Martha Wells, Witch King

Cover of Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) by Nghi Vo

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

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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7. D.I.Y

By: John Wiswell

3.76

Format: 25 pages, ebook

When the the elitist institution of Ozymandias Academy and its headmaster, Vamon Kinctuarin, can't … read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's D.I.Y book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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8. 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 Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) by Nghi Vo

9. 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 Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
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10. 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 Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

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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

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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12. Ogres

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

A bleak glimpse of a world of savage tyrants, from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky in a bea… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Ogres book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Difference Between Love and Time by Catherynne M. Valente

13. The Difference Between Love and Time

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.83

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Tor is pleased to reprint “The Difference Between Love and Time” by Catherynne M. Valente, as featu… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Ivy, Angelica, Bay by C.L. Polk

14. Ivy, Angelica, Bay

By: C.L. Polk

4.16

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l'Abielle s… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Ivy, Angelica, Bay book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
Cover of L'Esprit de L'Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente

15. L'Esprit de L'Escalier

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.97

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente is a provocative retelling of the Greek myth, in wh… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's L'Esprit de L'Escalier book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 by Jason Sizemore

16. 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

Similar categories in Jason Sizemore's Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • 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

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17. 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

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's Fireheart Tiger book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
"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

Cover of The Past Is Red by Catherynne M. Valente

18. 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

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's The Past Is Red book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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

Cover of Apex Magazine Issue 121 by Jason Sizemore

19. Apex Magazine Issue 121

By: Jason Sizemore

4.42

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

ORIGINAL FICTION - Root Rot by Fargo Tbakhi - Your Own Undoing by P H Lee - Love, That Hungry Th… read more

Similar categories in Jason Sizemore's Apex Magazine Issue 121 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories by Naomi Kritzer

20. Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.28

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed writer Naomi Kritzer's marvelous tales of science fiction and fantasy are now collected i… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • robots
  • science fiction fantasy
  • artificial intelligence
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021 by Neil Clarke

21. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

By: Neil Clarke

4.13

Format: 199 pages, ebook

FICTION Little Animals by Nancy Kress Poubelle by Robert Reed Bots of the Lost Ark by Suzanne Pa… read more

Similar categories in Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • robots
  • humor
  • science fiction fantasy
  • artificial intelligence
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022 by Lynne M. Thomas

22. Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022

By: Lynne M. Thomas

4.17

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

The November/December 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction b… read more

Similar categories in Lynne M. Thomas's Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of A Dream of Electric Mothers by Wole Talabi

23. 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 Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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

Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 47: July/August 2022 by Lynne M. Thomas

24. Uncanny Magazine Issue 47: July/August 2022

By: Lynne M. Thomas

3.72

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

Cover: The Wizard of Light by Kirbi Fagan Editorials: “The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas … read more

Similar categories in Lynne M. Thomas's Uncanny Magazine Issue 47: July/August 2022 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of I Am AI: A Novelette by Ai Jiang

25. I Am AI: A Novelette

By: Ai Jiang

4.11

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to su… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's I Am AI: A Novelette book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

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

26. 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 Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Year Without Sunshine by Naomi Kritzer

27. The Year Without Sunshine

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.23

Format: 35 pages, ebook

Hugo Voter Packet edition. read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's The Year Without Sunshine book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Questa storia non è la storia by John Wiswell

28. 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

Similar categories in John Wiswell's Questa storia non è la storia book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

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29. El pecado de América

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.29

Format: 42 pages, ebook

None read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's El pecado de América book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Tangles by Seanan McGuire

30. Tangles

By: Seanan McGuire

3.14

Format: None pages, ebook

None read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Tangles book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Apex Magazine, Issue 129, January 2022 by Jason Sizemore

31. Apex Magazine, Issue 129, January 2022

By: Jason Sizemore

3.20

Format: 185 pages, ebook

Original Fiction: "It Happened in 'Loontown" by Lavie Tidhar "City Lights" by Yilun Fan (translat… read more

Similar categories in Jason Sizemore's Apex Magazine, Issue 129, January 2022 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

28 Best fantasy books like Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021 by Neil Clarke

Transform Your Habits

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

Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Witch King

Martha Wells

3.71

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18 best-selling fiction books like Apex Magazine Issue 121 by Jason Sizemore

Transform Your Habits

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 132 (Clarkesworld Magazine #132)

Geoff Ryman , Neil Clarke , Tom Purdom , Kelly Robson , Suzanne Palmer , None , S. Qiouyi Lu , None , A. Brym , Stephanie M. Bucklin , Eric Schwitzgebel , None , Gu Shi

3.95

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

Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

Nghi Vo

4.24

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