8 Best short stories books like The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7 by Neil Clarke

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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7

By: Neil Clarke

3.80

Format: 626 pages, Kindle Edition

A remote village is determined to keep their robot teacher from being fired. A poetry-loving AI con…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7 by Neil Clarke , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

1. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Cover of The Nano Flower (Greg Mandel, #3) by Peter F. Hamilton

2. The Nano Flower (Greg Mandel, #3)

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Peter F. Hamilton is one the rising stars of science fiction in the nineties. His epic space advent… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of The State of the Art (Culture, #4) by Iain M. Banks

3. The State of the Art (Culture, #4)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella,… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

4. The Algebraist

By: Iain M. Banks

3.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasquer… read more

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5. Maelstrom (Rifters, #2)

By: Peter Watts

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, … read more

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6. Starfish (Rifters, #1)

By: Peter Watts

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the botto… read more

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  • science fiction
"Lenie " odzywa się Joel "Słucham?" "Próbowałaś się kiedyś zabić?" "Jasne, jak każdy" odpowiada"

-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)

"It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful."

-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)

"Don’t lecture me in my own field! We’ve got language and speech centers hardwired into our brains. That gives us a common starting point. Gels don’t have anything like that. Speech might just be one …"

-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)

"Miałam 11 lat. Poprzyklejałam sobie na ciele plastry, straciłam przytomność, obudziłam się w publicznym szpitalu." "O, cholera! To tylko szczebelek wyżej od szukania pomocy w internecie." "W sumie ta…"

-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)

7. The New Space Opera

By: Stephen Baxter , Ian McDonald , Alastair Reynolds , Robert Reed , Robert Silverberg , Gregory Benford , Greg Egan , Peter F. Hamilton , Mary Rosenblum , Dan Simmons , James Patrick Kelly , Gardner Dozois , Paul McAuley , Ken MacLeod , Nancy Kress , None , Kage Baker , Walter Jon Williams , Gwyneth Jones , Tony Daniel

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The brightest names in science fiction pen all-new tales of space and wonder. Contents 1 * Introduc… read more

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8. 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

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  • science 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

Cover of Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

9. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

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  • science fiction
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

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10. Jenny Trapdoor

By: Neal Asher

4.39

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

During the prador-human war the Dark Intelligence, the AI Penny Royal, fractured and went rogue. Th… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

11. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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  • science fiction
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

12. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of The Initial Fold (The Fold #1) by Nick    Adams

13. The Initial Fold (The Fold #1)

By: Nick Adams

4.00

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

What would you do if you materialised inside an alien starship? It's 2049, and NASA-sponsored ph… read more

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  • science fiction
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14. The Object

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.19

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thi… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu

15. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

By: Samit Basu

3.59

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rul… read more

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  • science fiction
"You exist, and you deserve to belong."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else"

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"It's all very clear, I just chose not to get it, I just decided everyone who didn't agree with my vision was lying, or a fool."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"I don't want to talk about this. It's not that I think you're wrong, but it's too big for me. I'll never be able to do anything about it."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

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16. 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

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"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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17. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) by Bethany Jacobs

18. These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

By: Bethany Jacobs

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones … read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of 2023 SciFi Anthology (The Science Fiction Novelists, #3) by S.A. Gibson

19. 2023 SciFi Anthology (The Science Fiction Novelists, #3)

By: S.A. Gibson

3.90

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Hunger by Marc NeufferThe Committee by DJ CamdenTime Seeds by Marc NeufferThe Ghost and the Machine… read more

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20. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of World Engines: Destroyer by Stephen Baxter

21. World Engines: Destroyer

By: Stephen Baxter

3.82

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of 2024 SciFi Anthology (The Science Fiction Novelists, #4) by S.A. Gibson

22. 2024 SciFi Anthology (The Science Fiction Novelists, #4)

By: S.A. Gibson

3.87

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

For Lovers of Speculative Science Fiction This, our fourth, anthology brings you a collection of 2… read more

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23. Best of British Science Fiction 2016

By: Donna Scott

4.03

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Editor Donna Scott has selected the very best short fiction by British authors published during 201… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7 by Neil Clarke

24. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7

By: Neil Clarke

3.80

Format: 626 pages, Kindle Edition

A remote village is determined to keep their robot teacher from being fired. A poetry-loving AI con… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R.F. Kuang

25. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

By: R.F. Kuang

3.68

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times best… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"The truce was over; the walls were up; they had reminded her why she'd abandoned them, which was that she could never really, properly, be one of them. And Letty, if she could not belong to a place, …"

-R.F. Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

Cover of A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) by Donna Leon

26. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)

By: Donna Leon

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more

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27. Communications Breakdown

By: Jonathan Strahan

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An exciting science fiction collection that looks at what future communication might look like and … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

28. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Spring Into SciFi 2024 Edition by Cloaked Press

29. Spring Into SciFi 2024 Edition

By: Cloaked Press

4.16

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

15 Tales of SciFi sure to delight the imagination.Join these talented authors for adventures AI, a… read more

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Cover of The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven by Ellen Datlow

30. The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven

By: Ellen Datlow

3.78

Format: 512 pages, ebook

For more than three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most f… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of Asimov's Science Fiction July/August 2024 by Sheila Williams

31. Asimov's Science Fiction July/August 2024

By: Sheila Williams

3.88

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

July/August 2024 Vol. 48 Nos. 7 & 8 NOVELLA The Sixteenth Circumstance by John Richard Trtek … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

23 must-read science fiction books like The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7 by Neil Clarke

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Nano Flower (Greg Mandel, #3)

Peter F. Hamilton

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The State of the Art (Culture, #4)

Iain M. Banks

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Starfish (Rifters, #1)

Peter Watts

3.95

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Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

William Gibson

4.02

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When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

Cory Doctorow

3.82

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Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

William Gibson

4.01

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Comfort Me with Apples

Catherynne M. Valente

3.59

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