9 must-read science fiction fantasy books like The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann VanderMeer

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The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

By: Ann VanderMeer

3.75

Format: 896 pages, Paperback

From Ann and Jeff VanderMeer comes The Big Book of Modern Fantasy a true horde of tales sure to de…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann VanderMeer , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Occultation and Other Stories

By: Laird Barron

4.08

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, … read more

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  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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2. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

By: Laird Barron

3.98

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Lai… read more

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  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"After years in the wilderness, he usually talked to himself."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"Actually, coyotes are much scarier than wolves. Sneaky, sneaky little suckers. Eat you up. Lick the blood all up."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I hate puppets. Hate them. They descend from a demonic line parallel to mimes and clowns and are wholly of the devil, especially the lifelike variety."

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"I was accustomed to liars, bold-faced or wide-eyed, silver tongued or pleading, often with the barrel of my gun directed at them as they babbled their last prayers to an indifferent god, squirted the…"

-Laird Barron, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

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3. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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

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4. Knight's Shadow (Greatcoats, #2)

By: Sebastien de Castell

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Following his beloved debut, Traitor's Blade, Sebastien de Castell returns with volume two of his f… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Old Nathan

By: David Drake

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

The forces of evil are poised to prey on the folk of the hamlets and hollows: witches, demons, and … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

6. Mongrels

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on t… read more

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7. Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders i… read more

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8. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more

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9. Meddling Kids

By: Edgar Cantero

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

1990. The teen detectives once known as the Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small … read more

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10. Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The first installment of the trilogy, Ninefox Gambit, centers on disgraced captain Kel Cheris, who … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Cheris, people are very simple,"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

"Taking away people’s names denied their power"

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

"But then, war is about taking the future away from people."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

"Immortality was like sex: it made idiots of otherwise rational people."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)

11. Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday

By: Guy de Maupassant , Hans Christian Andersen , H.G. Wells , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Rudyard Kipling , J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Ambrose Bierce , Charles Dickens , Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , Edgar Allan Poe , E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ivan Turgenev , Italo Calvino , Honoré de Balzac , Jean Lorrain , Walter Scott , Nikolai Gogol , Vernon Lee , Joseph von Eichendorff , Jan Potocki , Nikolai Leskov , Gérard de Nerval , Théophile Gautier , Prosper Mérimée , None

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo… read more

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12. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Seelye

3.81

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we wer…"

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

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13. Eclipse the Moon (Starlight's Shadow, #2)

By: Jessie Mihalik

3.94

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

Kee Ildez has been many things: hacker, soldier, bounty hunter. She never expected to be a hero, bu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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15. Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery

By: Christopher Golden

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Brand-new stories of witches and witchcraft written by popular female fantasy authors, including Ke… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies
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16. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer

By: Garth Nix

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author Garth Nix’s exciting adult debut: a new collection including all… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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17. The Kingdoms

By: Natasha Pulley

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the futu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

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18. The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

By: Andrew Leland

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to … read more

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"The problem arises, as [Adrienne] Asch observed, when "a single trait stands in for the whole, the trait obliterates the whole." Disabled people, like African Americans or any other marginalized grou…"

-Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

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19. Lost Places

By: Sarah Pinsker

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new collection from the author of Nebula Award winning A Song for a New Day and Philip K Dick Awa… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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20. Friday Black

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.05

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We’re in How-It-Was class."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"Buy One Get One stops for no one."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"You have to grab for happiness in places like this because there isn't enough to go around for everybody."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

"I locate: your life is in the hands of someone who doesn't even know you and thinks you don't deserve it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black

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21. The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

By: Ann VanderMeer

3.75

Format: 896 pages, Paperback

From Ann and Jeff VanderMeer comes The Big Book of Modern Fantasy a true horde of tales sure to de… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • writing
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

15 Best fiction books like The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann VanderMeer

Transform Your Habits

Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

Laird Barron

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The City & the City

China Miéville

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Knight's Shadow (Greatcoats, #2)

Sebastien de Castell

3.66

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29 Best fiction books like Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1) by Yoon Ha Lee

Transform Your Habits

Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

Ann Leckie

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

Ann Leckie

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Baru Cormorant #1)

Seth Dickinson

4.12

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