15 must-read short stories books like Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019 by Neil Clarke

Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019 by Neil Clarke

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019

By: Neil Clarke

3.91

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Our February 2019 issue (#149) contains:*Original fiction by Brit E. B. Hvide ("East of the Sun, We…

If you liked the short stories plot in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019 by Neil Clarke , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

1. All the Birds in the Sky

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.59

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways un… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What was worse, being crazy or being evil?"

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

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2. Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan , Lucy A. Snyder , Lee Thomas , Alyssa Wong , Chuck Palahniuk , Sunny Moraine , Wendy N. Wagner , Poppy Z. Brite , Kelley Eskridge

4.10

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all ki… read more

Similar categories in Caitlín R. Kiernan's Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies
Cover of Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1) by Brandon Sanderson

3. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.91

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians is the first adventure in a fantasy series for young readers by… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Wasing not of wasing is", Quentin added."

-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)

"You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny."

-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)

"Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people."

-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)

"And so, untold millions screamed out in pain, and then were suddenly silenced. I hope you're happy."

-Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)

Cover of The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3) by David Brin

4. The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)

By: David Brin

3.69

Format: None pages,

Billions of years ago, an alien race known as the Progenitors began the genetically engineered tech… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Castle Waiting, Vol. 1 (Castle Waiting Omnibus Collection, #1) by Jane Yolen, Linda Medley

5. Castle Waiting, Vol. 1 (Castle Waiting Omnibus Collection, #1)

By: Jane Yolen , Linda Medley

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Castle Waitinggraphic novel tells the story of an isolated, abandoned castle, and the eccentric inh… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction

6. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The City & the City by China Miéville

7. The City & the City

By: China Miéville

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"shit, shit, shit."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Same weather over here as back home," I said."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

8. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stori… read more

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9. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By: Timothy Snyder

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

An historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authorita… read more

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Cover of The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) by Nghi Vo

10. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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

11. 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

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

12. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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

13. 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 149 February 2019

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1) by Django Wexler

14. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Soulstar (The Kingston Cycle, #3) by C.L. Polk

15. Soulstar (The Kingston Cycle, #3)

By: C.L. Polk

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, ro… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Soulstar (The Kingston Cycle, #3) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1) by Katherine Addison

16. The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

By: Katherine Addison

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, 'The Goblin Em… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I’ll have to tell my mother that being gaudy has its uses"

-Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

Cover of A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky  Chambers

17. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

Cover of Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2) by Hannah Kaner

18. Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

By: Hannah Kaner

3.94

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Return to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling fan… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Some things are done out of love."

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Knowledge can bring pain in place of ignorance, terror in place of hope' - Telle"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"Some truths are too bright to look at directly, that is why they couch them in paper.' - Scian"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

"If we commit to violence, when will it stop?’ ‘If we do not,’ countered Elo, ‘will anything change?’ - Elogast"

-Hannah Kaner, Sunbringer (Fallen Gods, #2)

Cover of He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan

19. He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

4.25

Format: 486 pages, ebook

How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"This was the part she loved, fiercely. The leap from which there was no turning back; the buoyant thrill of knowing that all the threads of action would come together—had to come together—into succes…"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

Cover of Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2) by Justina Ireland

20. Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

By: Justina Ireland

4.16

Format: 553 pages, Kindle Edition

The sequel to Dread Nation is a journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Daniel Redfern laughs, the first real laugh I've ever heard from him, and I am put out. I am much funnier than Katherine. - Jane"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

"Things were good, and by the time we ended up in Denver we were sharing more than just stories. Unlike so much else in our lives, it felt... easy. I guess falling for someone always is. It's the stay…"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

"You're a heartbreaker, Katherine Devereaux." "That has nothing to do with me and everything to do with them," I say, blowing on my coffee before sipping it. There's chicory in the brew and I drink it…"

-Justina Ireland, Deathless Divide (Dread Nation, #2)

Cover of Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 by Jason Sizemore

21. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell

22. Open House on Haunted Hill

By: John Wiswell

4.14

Format: 13 pages, ebook

Author’s Note: At the World Fantasy Convention in 2018, I went to dinner with some lovely people wh… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Apex Magazine Issue 121 by Jason Sizemore

23. 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

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of How to Cook and Eat the Rich by Sunyi Dean

24. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard

25. Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A major first collection from a writer fast becoming one of the stars of the genre... Aliette de Bo… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor

26. LaGuardia

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.92

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award Winner Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death, Binti, Akata ser… read more

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

27. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Subterranean Magazine #4 by John Scalzi

28. Subterranean Magazine #4

By: John Scalzi

3.80

Format: 92 pages, ebook

None read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
Cover of Incomplete Solutions by Wole Talabi

29. Incomplete Solutions

By: Wole Talabi

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An elderly woman in early 22nd century Lagos is called in to help test the artificial intelligence … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019 by Neil Clarke

30. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019

By: Neil Clarke

3.91

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Our February 2019 issue (#149) contains:*Original fiction by Brit E. B. Hvide ("East of the Sun, We… read more

Similar categories in Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Cuando Robot y cuervo salvaron East St. Louis by Annalee Newitz

31. Cuando Robot y cuervo salvaron East St. Louis

By: Annalee Newitz

4.33

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Relato corto de un dron de vigilancia de pandemias, read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

27 Best fiction books like Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019 by Neil Clarke

Transform Your Habits

All the Birds in the Sky

Charlie Jane Anders

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue

Caitlín R. Kiernan , Lucy A. Snyder , Lee Thomas , Alyssa Wong , Chuck Palahniuk , Sunny Moraine , Wendy N. Wagner , Poppy Z. Brite , Kelley Eskridge

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, #1)

Brandon Sanderson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)

David Brin

3.69

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21 must-read fiction books like How to Cook and Eat the Rich by Sunyi Dean

Transform Your Habits

On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The River and the World Remade

E. Lily Yu

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale

Kathleen Jennings

3.00

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