29 must-read short stories books like The Tale of Ak and Humanity by Yefim Zozulya

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The Tale of Ak and Humanity

By: Yefim Zozulya

3.39

Format: 25 pages, ebook

"The Tale of Ak and Humanity" is a Tor.com Original from sci-fi author Yefim Zozula.Citizens are di…

If you liked the short stories plot in The Tale of Ak and Humanity by Yefim Zozulya , here is a list of 29 books like this:

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1. Burning Girls

By: Veronica Schanoes

3.89

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Burning Girls, by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educ… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Schanoes's Burning Girls book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • short stories
  • fiction
"Learning and skill are things to be proud of; they are the stars that light the sky of one’s lifetime."

-Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls

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2. The City Born Great

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.49

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this yea… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The City Born Great book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

3. The Devil in America

By: Kai Ashante Wilson

4.50

Format: 142 pages, ebook

Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them acr… read more

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4. Tear Tracks

By: Malka Ann Older

3.89

Format: None pages, ebook

Flur traveled across the stars to make first contact with the Cyclopes, hoping to forge a peace tre… read more

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5. This World is Full of Monsters

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

Format: 38 pages, ebook

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death an… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's This World is Full of Monsters book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word."

-Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters

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6. Small Monsters

By: E. Lily Yu

3.91

Format: 37 pages, ebook

All it’s life, a small monster with emerald scales has been source of never-ending food to larger a… read more

Similar categories in E. Lily Yu's Small Monsters book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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7. The River and the World Remade

By: E. Lily Yu

3.47

Format: 13 pages, ebook

When the waters rose, the people who stayed on the River learned they weathered the storms best tog… read more

Similar categories in E. Lily Yu's The River and the World Remade book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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8. 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 Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • short stories
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9. 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 Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. 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 Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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11. 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

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  • 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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12. 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 Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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13. Porgee's Boar

By: Jonathan Carroll

3.79

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

An artist's work attracts the eye of Andrey Porgee, a notorious gangster, who becomes her best cust… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Carroll's Porgee's Boar book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. 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 Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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15. How to Cook and Eat the Rich

By: Sunyi Dean

3.78

Format: 9 pages, ebook

A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for tho… read more

Similar categories in Sunyi Dean's How to Cook and Eat the Rich book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. The Last Truth

By: AnaMaria Curtis

4.20

Format: 25 pages, ebook

In AnaMaria Curtis's "The Last Truth", a Tor.com Original, a runaway and indentured thief, Eri must… read more

Similar categories in AnaMaria Curtis's The Last Truth book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. The Long View

By: Susan Palwick

3.20

Format: 31 pages, ebook

A university student seeks special accommodations for her new support animal, causing havoc all aro… read more

Similar categories in Susan Palwick's The Long View book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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18. Blood Is Another Word for Hunger

By: Rivers Solomon

3.67

Format: 25 pages, ebook

Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can gr… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's Blood Is Another Word for Hunger book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. The Tale of Ak and Humanity

By: Yefim Zozulya

3.39

Format: 25 pages, ebook

"The Tale of Ak and Humanity" is a Tor.com Original from sci-fi author Yefim Zozula.Citizens are di… read more

Similar categories in Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • classics
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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20. 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 Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.78

Format: 719 pages, ebook

This year on July 20th, Tor dot com turned 15! Since that long-ago year of 2008, we’ve published mo… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Jane Anders's Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. 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 Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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23. Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit

By: K.J. Parker

3.78

Format: 27 pages, ebook

A talented bookbinder is tasked with creating a copy of a text so inflammatory it threatens to alte… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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24. Sword & Spore

By: Dominica Phetteplace

3.58

Format: 32 pages, ebook

This is how magic left the Kingdom and made room for democracy. Three supernatural beings created b… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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25. 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 Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • short stories
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26. Men, Women, and Chainsaws

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.94

Format: 37 pages, ebook

It's been two years since Jenna's ex-boyfriend left her alone in East Texas heartbroken. Now he's b… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Men, Women, and Chainsaws book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • short stories
  • fiction
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27. Fruiting Bodies

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.31

Format: 16 pages, ebook

An alien fungal infection has ravaged a faraway planet, turning all but six of the colonists into r… read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's Fruiting Bodies book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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28. A Heart Between Teeth (Mkalis Cycle 2.5)

By: Kerstin Hall

4.12

Format: 39 pages, ebook

A new novelette set in the realms of Kerstin Hall’s acclaimed The Mkalis Cycle series. The 813th re… read more

Similar categories in Kerstin Hall's A Heart Between Teeth (Mkalis Cycle 2.5) book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • short stories
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29. The Dominion of Leviathan

By: Manish Melwani

3.84

Format: 48 pages, ebook

A thrilling space opera short story from Singaporean writer Manish Melwani, "The Dominion of Leviat… read more

Similar categories in Manish Melwani's The Dominion of Leviathan book and Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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30. 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 Yefim Zozulya's The Tale of Ak and Humanity

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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31. The Chronologist

By: Ian R. MacLeod

3.52

Format: 29 pages, ebook

A boy, desperate to escape the drudgery of life in his small town, gets caught up in the machinatio… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

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