15 Top adult books like Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project by Diana M. Pho

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Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

By: Diana M. Pho

3.65

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

Tor.com's science fiction and fantasy flash fiction collection originally published in 2017 inspire…

"There’s a line in Delany’s Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand where he talks about re-reading and says that this time the gleam of torchlight reflected in the water was a different gold. That about sums it up. I love the first re-read of a book, when I know what is coming and am not anxious either about what will happen or whether it will continue to be good, but it isn’t yet as familiar as an old slipper."

-Diana M. Pho, Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

"There’s a line in Delany’s Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand where he talks about re-reading and says that this time the gleam of torchlight reflected in the water was a different gold. That about sums it up. I love the first re-read of a book, when I know what is coming and am not anxious either about what will happen or whether it will continue to be good, but it isn’t yet as familiar as an old slipper."

-Diana M. Pho, Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

If you liked the adult plot in Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project by Diana M. Pho , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) by Aliette de Bodard

1. The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Shades in Shadow (Inheritance, #0.5, 1.5, 2.5) by N.K. Jemisin

2. Shades in Shadow (Inheritance, #0.5, 1.5, 2.5)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.06

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Three brand new short stories by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin, … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"He smiles a little, reflexively. He never actually feels like smiling, but he has survived by the skillful mimicry of expressions for too long to stop doing it now."

-N.K. Jemisin, Shades in Shadow (Inheritance, #0.5, 1.5, 2.5)

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3. The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse (Flavia de Luce, #6.5)

By: Alan Bradley

3.77

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder! the letter says, Come at once. Anson House, Greyminster, Staircase No. 3. How can Flavia de… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.46

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

IN SPACE EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SING A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and … read more

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I don't see where you get off fretting about whether or not the end of the world is family-friendly."

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

"Hey there," the steely abomination said with infinite, Buddha-like compassion, "it looks like you're trying to come to grips with the existence of events and entities far beyond your experience and, …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

"Are you kind enough, on your little planet, not to shut that rhythm down? Not to crush underfoot the singers of songs and tellers of tales and wearers of silk? Because it's monsters who do that. Who …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

"But all he had up Robert's perfect sleeve was two rubbishy songs that were more gimmick than the white-hot fire of real music , the sort of music people would play over and over in their bedrooms at …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

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5. Final Girls

By: Mira Grant

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What if you could fix the worst parts of yourself by confronting your worst fears? Dr. Jennifer Web… read more

Similar categories in Mira Grant's Final Girls book and Diana M. Pho's Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • adult

6. Nine Goblins

By: T. Kingfisher

4.12

Format: 428 pages, ebook

When a party of goblin warriors find themselves trapped behind enemy lines, it'll take more than wh… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction

7. At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories

By: Kij Johnson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have r… read more

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8. Clover

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.89

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Answering the question asked by readers of All the Birds in the Sky: what happened to Patricia's ca… read more

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9. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology an… read more

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10. Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.85

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I’m not stupid, I just don’t know stuff,"

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"I’m not really into cremating my cookies."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"So please, can we go and tell her to stop? I need to exist. It’s important."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

"That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try to make things make sense, even when they're never going to."

-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)

11. Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2016 Edition

By: Aliette de Bodard , Carrie Vaughn , Charlie Jane Anders , Daniel Polansky , Alyssa Wong , Genevieve Valentine , N.K. Jemisin , Lavie Tidhar , Ellen Datlow , Delia Sherman , Angela Slatter , Liu Cixin , Melissa Marr , Laurie Penny , Lettie Prell , Indrapramit Das , Rebecca Campbell , Nina Allan , Margaret Killjoy , Alix E. Harrow , Monica Byrne , David Nickle , Caighlan Smith , Rajnar Vajra , P. Djèlí Clark , Tara Isabella Burton , None

3.82

Format: 160 pages,

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2016. Includes stor… read more

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12. 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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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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)

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13. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

By: Ann Leckie

4.05

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more

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  • short story collection
  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

14. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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  • adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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15. 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
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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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16. The Light Brigade

By: Kameron Hurley

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…dif… read more

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"The power of the corrupt governments and entrenched corporations feels inevitable. No doubt so did the rule of kings and landowners before them. But I know better now. I know there is a greater power…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

"You have War of the Worlds?" I asked the knu. It returned twenty different films, sixteen editions of a text, but no radio play. Radio drama. That's the word Tanaka had used. One text said it was his…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

"When I’m old and dying, wheezing my guts out, my organs failing, I want to walk out the front door of some old farmhouse on my own land, maybe forty, fifty hectares of it. I want to find a cool place…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

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17. Never Have I Ever

By: Isabel Yap

3.99

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

“Am I dead?” Mebuyen sighs. She was hoping the girl would not ask. Spells and stories, urban … read more

Similar categories in Isabel Yap's Never Have I Ever book and Diana M. Pho's Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I don’t see how nightmares is your reward for something good. Where is your mercy? Where is your sense of doing what’s right—what one human would do? I am not human, and even I know."

-Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever

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18. Parasol Against the Axe

By: Helen Oyeyemi

3.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Peaces and Gingerbread returns with a novel about competit… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of How to Move Spheres and Influence People by Marko Kloos

19. How to Move Spheres and Influence People

By: Marko Kloos

3.95

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpower… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Into the Gray

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.56

Format: 22 pages, ebook

"You're using me," I said. "That might be true, but I also love you." One is the Lady of the … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's Into the Gray book and Diana M. Pho's Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. Any Way the Wind Blows

By: Seanan McGuire

3.70

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

In the original Tor.com story Any Way the Wind Blows, New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGu… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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22. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more

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"In many college English courses the words “myth"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

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23. Unnatural Life

By: Erin K. Wagner

3.52

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Murderbot meets To Kill a Mockingbird in Erin K. Wagner's An Unnatural Life , an interplanetary tal… read more

Similar categories in Erin K. Wagner's Unnatural Life book and Diana M. Pho's Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

By: Diana M. Pho

3.65

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

Tor.com's science fiction and fantasy flash fiction collection originally published in 2017 inspire… read more

Similar categories in Diana M. Pho's Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project book and Diana M. Pho's Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

  • short story collection
  • feminism
  • adult
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"There’s a line in Delany’s Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand where he talks about re-reading and says that this time the gleam of torchlight reflected in the water was a different gold. That abo…"

-Diana M. Pho, Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

Cover of Yellow and the Perception of Reality by Maureen F. McHugh

25. Yellow and the Perception of Reality

By: Maureen F. McHugh

3.75

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh is a science fiction story about a woman w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of In Our Own Worlds: Four LGBTQ+ Tor.com Novellas by Margaret Killjoy

26. In Our Own Worlds: Four LGBTQ+ Tor.com Novellas

By: Margaret Killjoy

4.11

Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition

In celebration of Pride, Tor.com Publishing presents four critically acclaimed novellas featuring L… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's In Our Own Worlds: Four LGBTQ+ Tor.com Novellas book and Diana M. Pho's Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The West Passage by Jared Pechaček

27. The West Passage

By: Jared Pechaček

3.96

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

A palace the size of a city, ruled by giant Ladies of unknowable, eldritch origin. A land left to s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Friend Zone Experiment by Zen Cho

28. The Friend Zone Experiment

By: Zen Cho

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, runs a glamorous―and … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko

29. The Maid and the Crocodile

By: Jordan Ifueko

4.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The smallest spark can bind two hearts . . . or start a revolution. In the magic-soaked capital … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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30. Disney Princess #2

By: Amy Mebberson

4.27

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Disney's beloved heroines have returned in this hilarious collection of Disney Princess comic strip… read more

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  • fantasy
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31. The Hundredth House Had No Walls

By: Laurie Penny

3.58

Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition

Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker and act… read more

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  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction

25 Best fiction books like Nevertheless, She Persisted: Flash Fiction Project by Diana M. Pho

Transform Your Habits

The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Shades in Shadow (Inheritance, #0.5, 1.5, 2.5)

N.K. Jemisin

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse (Flavia de Luce, #6.5)

Alan Bradley

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)

Catherynne M. Valente

3.46

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27 Best fiction books like In Our Own Worlds: Four LGBTQ+ Tor.com Novellas by Margaret Killjoy

Transform Your Habits

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Necessary Beggar

Susan Palwick

3.70

Transform Your Habits

A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

Vernor Vinge

4.32

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