5 must-read anthologies books like Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds by Nisi Shawl

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Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

By: Nisi Shawl

3.74

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The sky is not the limit. From an alley in New York to an interstellar wormhole, the path to the fu…

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Cover of My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1) by Tananarive Due

1. My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1)

By: Tananarive Due

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever … read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's My Soul to Keep (African Immortals, #1) book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bris… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1) book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

"Sometimes it is hard because we have to make choices. I remember when having to make choices scared me more than anything else except Master being angry with me. Now I know that making choices is the…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

"There are still fierce pressure groups shouting about letting go of humanity, but they are the same groups who cry that Bioforms are less than human. One day the world will be ready to accept that hu…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

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3. Sappho: A New Translation

By: Sappho , Dudley Fitts , Mary Barnard

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively … read more

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4. The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate #1)

By: J.Y. Yang

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children.… read more

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5. Third Eye

By: Felicia Day

4.14

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Once upon a time, in the magical land of San Francisco, there lived a not-so-ordinary girl named La… read more

Similar categories in Felicia Day's Third Eye book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. One Day All This Will Be Yours

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.04

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The bold new work from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky  - a smart, funny tale of time-trave… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's One Day All This Will Be Yours book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Who’d have ever thought I’d find a soulmate in the end times? Not me, obviously, what with my trying my damnedest to eliminate the rest of the human race."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

"I honestly think someone invented the time machine just so they could go grab a burger when the urge took them. Anyway, turns out saving the planet by eating soy was a bit of a non-starter given how …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

"And even if I met a fellow agent who seemed to jibe with me, no guarantee they’d be the same when I rendezvoused with them later and/or earlier (let me tell you, it’s frankly embarrassing to clap you…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, One Day All This Will Be Yours

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7. Bloody Summer

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.70

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

What do children know that adults can’t begin to believe? The answer is hidden in plain sight in th… read more

Similar categories in Carmen Maria Machado's Bloody Summer book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Impact Winter Season 2 (Impact Winter #2)

By: Travis Beacham

3.98

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

The hit Audible Original series from executive producers of The Walking Dead and the writer of Paci… read more

Similar categories in Travis Beacham's Impact Winter Season 2 (Impact Winter #2) book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Emergency Skin

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.03

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subver… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources …"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

"No, there’s no one left alive on Tellus. The planet was in full environmental collapse across every biome when our people left. There were just too many people, and too many of those were unfit, infi…"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

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10. If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more

Similar categories in Fatimah Asghar's If They Come for Us book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • audiobook
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

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11. The Visit (Black Stars, #1)

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3.95

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men—old friends—confront the past and future in a … read more

Similar categories in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Visit (Black Stars, #1) book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. Walking to Aldebaran

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Chilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian … read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Walking to Aldebaran book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Tiger Came to the Mountains

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.83

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexico, 1917. On a farm during the violent tumult of revolution, a more immediate threat prowls in … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Tiger Came to the Mountains book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Wildlife

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

Format: 57 pages, Kindle Edition

Nature offers sanctuary for a woman with a violent past. But anything can happen when borderlands a… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Wildlife book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Above Ground

By: Clint Smith

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more

Similar categories in Clint Smith's Above Ground book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • audiobook
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16. A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

By: Victor LaValle

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love come… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I turned to my wife and said, "Damn, this country hates women." She said, "You're only now just figuring that out?"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

"Father sat in his easy chair, occasionally shaking his head and saying how this was just the way the cycle worked—one time they vote for what they believe themselves to be and the next they get angry…"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

"There are stories about perfection, but those stories are lies. No one ever made the world better by being perfect. There is only mess in humans, and sometimes that mess turns to magic, and sometimes…"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

"It’s quiet for a second and so I start to think. About how people take from each other. They take and take. Our world itself is a great big taking. And life is just giving. We give away everything we…"

-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

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17. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Black God's Drums book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. To Hold Up the Sky

By: Liu Cixin

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem, To Hold Up the Sky… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If we’re going to be blind, let’s both be blind. If we’re going to be deaf, let’s both be deaf."

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

"There’s no reason to believe that the pace of life for all beings in the universe is like that of humanity."

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

"Imagine if DNA never made mistakes, always replicating and inheriting with perfect fidelity. What would life on Earth become?"

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

"The strongest feeling I’ve gotten from my time in this age is that we’re beyond the time when knowledge can explain everything."

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

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19. The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.78

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

By fate and fire, a being four millennia old is reborn in Mali in a short story of contemporary Afr… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2) book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. Clap Back (Black Stars, #5)

By: Nalo Hopkinson

3.80

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

A past struggle for racial equity could achieve a profound future victory in this audacious short s… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. Graceful Burdens

By: Roxane Gay

4.05

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

Audible narration by Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale) From New York Times bestselling author Rox… read more

Similar categories in Roxane Gay's Graceful Burdens book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. We Travel the Spaceways (Black Stars, #6)

By: Victor LaValle

3.90

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Otherworldly interference in real-world New York City? Or delusions? For the answer, follow two lov… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's We Travel the Spaceways (Black Stars, #6) book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Far Reaches: Stories to Take You Out of This World by James S.A. Corey

23. The Far Reaches: Stories to Take You Out of This World

By: James S.A. Corey

3.75

Format: 227 pages, Audiobook

Look outward beyond the stars with six stories from bestselling visionary authors. An AI awakens to… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's The Far Reaches: Stories to Take You Out of This World book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Backbone of the World

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.93

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

An American Indian woman’s past and future collide in unthinkable ways in this richly imagined shor… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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25. These Alien Skies (Black Stars, #4)

By: C.T. Rwizi

4.27

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

Accidents happen in the strange realms of the African Union system. One of them sends two humans to… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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26. A Righteous Man

By: Tochi Onyebuchi

3.29

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A missionary in nineteenth-century Africa suffers a chilling crisis of faith in a short story about… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Forward: Stories of Tomorrow

By: Blake Crouch

3.74

Format: 309 pages, Audiobook

For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imaginatio… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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28. Stag

By: Karen Russell

3.32

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Feeling alone? Join the party in a darkly comic and deeply felt short story about fragility and res… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

29. In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Bounty

By: Alison Espach

3.91

Format: None pages, None

In this at-once hilarious and heartbreaking series, In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead P… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

By: Nisi Shawl

3.74

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The sky is not the limit. From an alley in New York to an interstellar wormhole, the path to the fu… read more

Similar categories in Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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31. In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Tempur-Pedic

By: Alison Espach

3.62

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

In this at-once hilarious and heartbreaking series, In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead P… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's In-Depth Market Research Interviews with Dead People: Tempur-Pedic book and Nisi Shawl's Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

13 Best speculative fiction books like Black Stars: A Galaxy of New Worlds by Nisi Shawl

Transform Your Habits

Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Emergency Skin

N.K. Jemisin

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Visit (Black Stars, #1)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Walking to Aldebaran

Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.75

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21 must-read fiction books like We Travel the Spaceways (Black Stars, #6) by Victor LaValle

Transform Your Habits

Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

Veronica Roth

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

Ann Leckie

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

John Scalzi

4.18

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