12 Best short stories books like The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6 by Neil Clarke

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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6

By: Neil Clarke

3.83

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected …

If you liked the short stories plot in The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6 by Neil Clarke , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Autonomous

By: Annalee Newitz

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

Autonomousfeatures a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her … read more

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

2. 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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  • science fiction
"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 Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3) by Jack McDevitt

3. Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)

By: Jack McDevitt

3.66

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Barnes & Noble Review Alex Benedict and his executive assistant, Chase Kolpath -- ambitious ant… read more

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  • science fiction

4. China Mountain Zhang

By: None

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best s… 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)

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7. Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The first installment of the trilogy, Ninefox Gambit, centers on disgraced captain Kel Cheris, who … read more

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  • science fiction
"Cheris, people are very simple,"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

"Taking away people’s names denied their power"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

"But then, war is about taking the future away from people."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

"Immortality was like sex: it made idiots of otherwise rational people."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

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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

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9. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.72

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Rebecca Roanhorse and series edi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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10. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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  • science fiction
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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)

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12. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

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13. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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14. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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15. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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16. Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.11

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known… read more

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  • science fiction
"The universe won’t do this to us,’ I whispered to myself. ‘It’s indifferent, but it isn’t actually cruel.’ Perhaps I believed myself, for a moment or two."

-Alastair Reynolds, Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)

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17. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) by Nnedi Okorafor

18. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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19. The Spear Cuts Through Water

By: Simon Jimenez

4.19

Format: 525 pages, Hardcover

Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal fa… read more

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  • science fiction
"There is no correct way to shake hands with pain."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"They fought because it was the easiest language they spoke."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"I have lived a long time," she said. "And the longer I live, the more it surprises me, and saddens me, how wise the young must become to live in this world."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

"But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed."

-Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

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20. Truth of the Divine (Noumena, #2)

By: Lindsay Ellis

3.91

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

USA TODAY BESTSELLER Truth of the Divine is the latest alternate-history first-contact novel in … read more

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  • science fiction
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21. 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

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  • short stories
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22. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

By: Annalee Newitz

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more

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"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

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23. House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.51

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to a… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

24. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more

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

25. 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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26. Phoenix Extravagant

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. … read more

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  • science fiction
"I’ll go up first,"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

"Phoenix Extravagant for destructive power, as befits an engine of war."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

"But so many people aren't ready for this, Jebi. Artists. Charm-sellers. Grocers. Tailors. People who just want to get by, and who won't be given a choice when the guns begin to speak again."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant

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27. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Thirteen

By: Jonathan Strahan

3.80

Format: 600 pages, Paperback

The finest short science fiction and fantasy, from the master anthologistScience fiction is a porta… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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28. Secret Identity

By: Alex Segura

3.62

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery … read more

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29. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021

By: Veronica Roth

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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30. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6

By: Neil Clarke

3.83

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected … read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
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31. The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 2: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2021

By: Jonathan Strahan

3.87

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

Multi-award-winning editor and Locus Magazine critic Jonathan Strahan presents the second definitiv… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies

25 Top science fiction books like The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6 by Neil Clarke

Transform Your Habits

Autonomous

Annalee Newitz

4.33

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)

Jack McDevitt

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Starfish (Rifters, #1)

Peter Watts

3.95

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29 Best fiction books like Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1) by Yoon Ha Lee

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Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

Ann Leckie

4.08

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

Ann Leckie

4.22

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The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1)

Seth Dickinson

4.12

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