7 Top short stories books like Asimov's Science Fiction May/June 2024 by Sheila Williams

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Asimov's Science Fiction May/June 2024

By: Sheila Williams

4.15

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

May-June 2024. Stories in this issue: "Barbarians" by Rich Larson "To Make an End" by William P…

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1. The John Varley Reader

By: John Varley

4.27

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
"When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills and fountain pens, even mechanical pencils, and went straight to one of the fi…"

-John Varley, The John Varley Reader

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2. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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3. The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant … read more

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  • science fiction
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4. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

By: Ed Yong

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more

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"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."

-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

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5. 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)

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6. 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

7. The Churn (The Expanse, #0.2)

By: James S.A. Corey , Erik Davies

2.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From New York Times bestselling author James S.A. Corey... Before his trip to the stars, before the… read more

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8. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Southern Reach, #1-3)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Area X--a remote and lush terrain--has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nat… read more

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9. Понедельник начинается в субботу

By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Аркадий Стругацкий , Борис Стругацкий

4.17

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

"Понедельник начинается в субботу. Сказка для научных работников младшего возраста" - под таким заг… read more

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  • science fiction
"Do we really need ourselves for anything?"

-Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу

"- А чем вы занимаетесь? - Как и вся наука. Счастьем человеческим."

-Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу

"Восемьдесят три процента дней в году начинаются одинаково: звенит будильник."

-Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу

"Like all science," said the hook-nosed one, "our work deals with human happiness."

-Arkady Strugatsky, Понедельник начинается в субботу

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10. 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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11. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

12. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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13. The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #2)

By: Garth Nix

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Return to the enchanting world of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London in this sequel by Garth Nix… read more

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14. BRZRKR, Volume 1

By: Keanu Reeves

3.76

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Keanu Reeves makes his comic book writing debut alongside New York Times bestselling co-writer Matt… read more

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  • science fiction
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15. 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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  • science fiction
"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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16. 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
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17. 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

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  • science 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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18. Tiger Chair

By: Max Brooks

3.57

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

When China invades America, guerrilla warfare explodes on the streets of Los Angeles in this provoc… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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19. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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20. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

By: Eric H. Cline

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more

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21. The Sandman: Act II

By: Dirk Maggs

4.39

Format: 14 pages, Audio CD

Enter the Dreaming once again as the blockbuster audio adaptation of "the greatest epic in the hist… read more

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22. The World Wasn't Ready for You

By: Justin C. Key

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Black Mirror meets Get Out in this gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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23. Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November/December 2023

By: Trevor Quachri

3.73

Format: 212 pages, digest magazine

Vol. XCIII, Issue 11 & 12. Contents: 4 • Celebrate! • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by Emily Hoc… read more

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  • science fiction
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24. Asimov's Science Fiction May/June 2024

By: Sheila Williams

4.15

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

May-June 2024. Stories in this issue: "Barbarians" by Rich Larson "To Make an End" by William P… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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25. 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
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26. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter 2024

By: Sheree Renée Thomas

3.46

Format: 378 pages, ebook

None read more

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27. Analog Science Fiction & Fact, May/June 2024

By: Trevor Quachri

3.94

Format: 210 pages, digest magazine

Vol. 144, no 5&6. Novella: - UNCLE ROY’S COMPUTER REPAIRS AND USED ROBOT PARTS, Martin L. Shoe… read more

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28. BRZRKR Deluxe Edition

By: Keanu Reeves

3.95

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A WAR WITH NO END.The man known only as B. is half-mortal and half-God, cursed and compelled to vio… read more

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29. Analog Science Fiction & Fact, March/April 2024

By: Trevor Quachri

4.31

Format: 212 pages, digest magazine

Vol. CXLIV, Issue 3 & 4. Contents: 4 • AI Media vs. Human Imagination: Deathmatch? • [Editorial… read more

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30. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 213, June 2024

By: Neil Clarke

3.80

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each m… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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31. Analog Science Fiction & Fact, January/February 2024

By: Trevor Quachri

4.06

Format: 212 pages, digest magazine

Vol. CXLIV, Issue 1 & 2. Contents: 4 • Machines Passing for People Passing for Machines • [Edit… read more

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  • science fiction

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John Varley

4.27

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

3.78

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Peter Watts

4.01

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Ray Bradbury

3.80

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Luis Alberto Urrea , Christopher Cardinale

3.30

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Jordan Peele

3.79

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