18 Best fantasy books like The Woman Carrying a Corpse by Chi Hui

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The Woman Carrying a Corpse

By: Chi Hui

2.93

Format: 6 pages, ebook

We’re excited to reprint “The Woman Carrying a Corpse” by Chi Hui, translated from Chinese by Judit…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Woman Carrying a Corpse by Chi Hui , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Detonation Boulevard by Alastair Reynolds

1. Detonation Boulevard

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, … read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6) by Lavie Tidhar

2. The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.98

Format: 32 pages, ebook

While visiting the mysterious castle of Maidstone for an investigation, Judge Dee and Jonathan disc… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Locked Coffin: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #6) book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Ivy, Angelica, Bay by C.L. Polk

3. Ivy, Angelica, Bay

By: C.L. Polk

4.16

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l'Abielle s… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Ivy, Angelica, Bay book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of The River and the World Remade by E. Lily Yu

4. 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 Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of Salt Water by Eugenia Triantafyllou

5. 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 Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Also, the Cat by Rachel Swirsky

6. Also, the Cat

By: Rachel Swirsky

3.32

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

Even death is no match for a trio of elderly, stubborn, ever-sparring sisters, who refuse to rest i… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Swirsky's Also, the Cat book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
"You know, life never made any sense. I guess there’s no reason for the afterlife to."

-Rachel Swirsky, Also, the Cat

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7. 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 Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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8. The Dark House

By: A.C. Wise

3.20

Format: 22 pages, ebook

A photographer’s obsession with an unsettled subject exposes two friends to a darkness that won’t b… read more

Similar categories in A.C. Wise's The Dark House book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of The Counterworld by James Bradley

9. The Counterworld

By: James Bradley

2.51

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A grieving mother wakes up to find all traces of her lost son have been erased as if he had never e… read more

Similar categories in James Bradley's The Counterworld book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of The Job at the End of the World by Ray Nayler

10. The Job at the End of the World

By: Ray Nayler

3.76

Format: 21 pages, ebook

A weary resilience worker should know better than no one is safe when the world is always ending..… read more

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Job at the End of the World book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3) by Carrie Vaughn

11. Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3)

By: Carrie Vaughn

4.27

Format: 24 pages, ebook

Graff isn’t quite human. His people move through the galaxy collecting memories and experiences, re… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Vaughn's Time: Marked and Mended (Graff, #3) book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of The Puppetmaster by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

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 Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of After the Animal Flesh Beings by Brian Evenson

13. 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 Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of How to Cook and Eat the Rich by Sunyi Dean

14. 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 Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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15. Ceffo

By: Jonathan Carroll

3.69

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

On a trip to Italy, a woman stuck in a crumbling relationship discovers the city she loves holds a … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Carroll's Ceffo book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Counting Casualties by Yoon Ha Lee

16. 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 Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener by Ramsey Shehadeh

17. 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 Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit by K.J. Parker

18. 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 Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of The Star-Bear by Michael Swanwick

19. The Star-Bear

By: Michael Swanwick

3.31

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

A Russian émigré poet living in Paris is visited by a mysterious bear with an agenda… At the Pub… read more

Similar categories in Michael Swanwick's The Star-Bear book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of A Dream of Electric Mothers by Wole Talabi

20. A Dream of Electric Mothers

By: Wole Talabi

3.89

Format: 22 pages, ebook

We’re excited to reprint “A Dream of Electric Mothers,” the 2023 Nebula Award–nominated novelette b… read more

Similar categories in Wole Talabi's A Dream of Electric Mothers book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
"Two hours into the third session of our fourth cabinet meeting on the border dispute with the co-operative kingdom of Dahomey, my colleagues finally agree that we need to seek the dream-counsel of ou…"

-Wole Talabi, A Dream of Electric Mothers

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21. The Three O’Clock Dragon

By: John Wiswell

3.80

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Prosperity City’s corrupt mayor never guessed his greatest opponent would be a fire-breathing drago… read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's The Three O’Clock Dragon book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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22. The Canadian Miracle

By: Cory Doctorow

3.61

Format: 23 pages, ebook

Short fiction from science fiction author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow!A contentious ele… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Canadian Miracle book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of Nine Billion Turing Tests by Chris Willrich

23. Nine Billion Turing Tests

By: Chris Willrich

3.89

Format: 44 pages, ebook

In a post-nuclear event Silicon Valley, a man grieving the loss of his wife struggles to find comfo… read more

Similar categories in Chris Willrich's Nine Billion Turing Tests book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of You Don't Belong Where You Don't Belong by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

24. You Don't Belong Where You Don't Belong

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.49

Format: 25 pages, ebook

With her friends vanishing and her home planet of Ayeshij crushed under the weight of occupation, g… read more

Similar categories in Kemi Ashing-Giwa's You Don't Belong Where You Don't Belong book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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25. Pretty Good Neighbor

By: Jeffrey Ford

3.22

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands... At th… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Ford's Pretty Good Neighbor book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of Median by Kelly Robson

26. Median

By: Kelly Robson

3.69

Format: 26 pages, ebook

A professional caregiver’s commute takes an unsettling detour when car trouble forces her to pull o… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Robson's Median book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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27. Even If Such Ways Are Bad

By: Rich Larson

3.54

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

A two-person crew embark on a mind-bending deep space mission inside a living wormship capable of b… read more

Similar categories in Rich Larson's Even If Such Ways Are Bad book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
Cover of The Woman Carrying a Corpse by Chi Hui

28. The Woman Carrying a Corpse

By: Chi Hui

2.93

Format: 6 pages, ebook

We’re excited to reprint “The Woman Carrying a Corpse” by Chi Hui, translated from Chinese by Judit… read more

Similar categories in Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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29. The Stars We Raised

By: Xiu Xinyu

3.62

Format: 18 pages, ebook

We’re delighted to share “The Stars We Raised” by Xiu Xinyu, translated from Chinese by Judy Yi Zho… read more

Similar categories in Xiu Xinyu's The Stars We Raised book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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30. Headhunting

By: Rich Larson

3.61

Format: 36 pages, ebook

A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk’s head stolen from a … read more

Similar categories in Rich Larson's Headhunting book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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31. What It Means To Be A Car

By: James Patrick Kelly

3.61

Format: 15 pages, ebook

An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt… read more

Similar categories in James Patrick Kelly's What It Means To Be A Car book and Chi Hui's The Woman Carrying a Corpse

  • short stories

31 Best short stories books like The Woman Carrying a Corpse by Chi Hui

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3.98

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C.L. Polk

4.16

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4.04

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4.02

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