17 best-selling science fiction books like The Chronologist by Ian R. MacLeod

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The Chronologist

By: Ian R. MacLeod

3.52

Format: 29 pages, ebook

A boy, desperate to escape the drudgery of life in his small town, gets caught up in the machinatio…

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1. The Weight of Memories

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

3.71

Format: 498 pages, ebook

From the author of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and the forthcoming Death's Endcomes a … read more

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2. The Phantom in the Maze

By: Michael Swanwick

4.25

Format: None pages, ebook

We tamper with time at our peril. The Phantom in the Maze,a new story in the Mongolian Wizard serie… read more

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3. Lullaby for a Lost World

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.68

Format: 330 pages, ebook

Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up thr… read more

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4. The Night Cyclist

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.88

Format: None pages, ebook

"The Night Cyclist" by Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novelette about a middle-aged chef whose ni… read more

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

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

No vampire is ever innocent… The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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8. Grow

By: Carrie Vaughn

3.86

Format: 31 pages, ebook

For over 35 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpower… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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9. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. The Last Truth

By: AnaMaria Curtis

4.20

Format: 25 pages, ebook

In AnaMaria Curtis's "The Last Truth", a Tor.com Original, a runaway and indentured thief, Eri must… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Triquetra

By: Kirstyn McDermott

3.91

Format: 43 pages, ebook

"Triquetra" by Kirstyn McDermott is a dark fantasy novelette about the fraught relationship between… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch

By: Garth Nix

3.92

Format: 34 pages, ebook

A new short story from Garth Nix, best-selling author of the Old Kingdom series.In this raucous, st… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. 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

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. The Long View

By: Susan Palwick

3.20

Format: 31 pages, ebook

A university student seeks special accommodations for her new support animal, causing havoc all aro… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
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15. The Necessary Arthur

By: Garth Nix

3.75

Format: 41 pages, ebook

The Necessary Arthur, a Tor.com Original, is a delightful science fantasy novelette from internatio… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Seven Vampires: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee, #4)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.83

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Paris is burning and Judge Dee and Jonathan are on the run. To guarantee their safety, they join a … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. The Tale of Ak and Humanity

By: Yefim Zozulya

3.39

Format: 25 pages, ebook

"The Tale of Ak and Humanity" is a Tor.com Original from sci-fi author Yefim Zozula.Citizens are di… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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18. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. Sword & Spore

By: Dominica Phetteplace

3.58

Format: 32 pages, ebook

This is how magic left the Kingdom and made room for democracy. Three supernatural beings created b… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Men, Women, and Chainsaws

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.94

Format: 37 pages, ebook

It's been two years since Jenna's ex-boyfriend left her alone in East Texas heartbroken. Now he's b… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. The Thief of Memory

By: Sunyi Dean

3.75

Format: 26 pages, ebook

The Hero must journey across the desert to capture The Thief Of Memory and retrieve her stolen memo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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22. Fruiting Bodies

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.31

Format: 16 pages, ebook

An alien fungal infection has ravaged a faraway planet, turning all but six of the colonists into r… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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23. Wait for Night

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.90

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Wait for Night by Stephen Graham Jones is horror story about a day laborer hired to help clean up a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. The Dominion of Leviathan

By: Manish Melwani

3.84

Format: 48 pages, ebook

A thrilling space opera short story from Singaporean writer Manish Melwani, "The Dominion of Leviat… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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25. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Reporter

By: Daniela Tomova

3.40

Format: 46 pages, ebook

A reporter travels to the Norwegian Arctic to cover an unusual sled race with the undead leading th… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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26. The Chronologist

By: Ian R. MacLeod

3.52

Format: 29 pages, ebook

A boy, desperate to escape the drudgery of life in his small town, gets caught up in the machinatio… read more

Similar categories in Ian R. MacLeod's The Chronologist book and Ian R. MacLeod's The Chronologist

  • time travel
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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27. Arbitrium

By: Anjali Sachdeva

3.45

Format: 23 pages, ebook

"Arbitrium" is a post-apocalyptic Tor.com Original short story from Anjali Sachdeva, author of All … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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28. India World®

By: Amit Gupta

3.14

Format: 28 pages, ebook

One day, Rohit receives the opportunity of a lifetime; a job offer in India with promises of fulfil… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Murder in the Spook House (The Mongolian Wizard, #8)

By: Michael Swanwick

3.53

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder in the Spook House is eighth story in the Mongolian Wizard universe. Hugo and Nebula Award-w… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • time travel
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30. Let All the Children Boogie

By: Sam J. Miller

3.89

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving comes Sam J. Miller's sci-fi time trave… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • time travel
"To say that there was so much to be afraid of—nuclear winter, ecological devastation, the death spasms of patriarchy. That the next fifty years would see unspeakable suffering. But we could survive i…"

-Sam J. Miller, Let All the Children Boogie

"There would be time to tell Fell all of it. To say that there was so much to be afraid of—nuclear winter, ecological devastation, the death spasms of patriarchy. That the next fifty years would see u…"

-Sam J. Miller, Let All the Children Boogie

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31. Grace's Family

By: James Patrick Kelly

3.39

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

The mission: to survey the galaxy and beyond. An endless stream of probes and starships heading out… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

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