18 must-read short stories books like Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer

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Better Living Through Algorithms

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.25

Format: 13 pages, ebook

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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
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2. They're Made Out of Meat

By: Terry Bisson

3.70

Format: None pages, ebook

Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1991. read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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3. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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4. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

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  • science fiction
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5. Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

4.00

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more

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"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."

-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge

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6. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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  • science fiction
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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7. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

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  • science fiction
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8. 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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"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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9. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

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  • short stories
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10. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • short stories
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11. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • science fiction
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12. 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
"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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13. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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14. 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

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  • short stories
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15. St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s … read more

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  • short stories
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16. The Witches of World War II

By: Paul Cornell

3.13

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Vengefully imaginative occult rewrite of wartime history, full of sharp knife twists, proving yet … read more

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17. 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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18. I Am AI: A Novelette

By: Ai Jiang

4.11

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to su… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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19. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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20. Navigational Entanglements

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.05

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard presents yet another innovative space opera that broadens th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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21. Better Living Through Algorithms

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.25

Format: 13 pages, ebook

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  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories

22. Seeds of Mercury (English edition)

By: 晋康著 王

2.84

Format: 31 pages, None

素有善心的商人陈义哲,突然获得了一位陌生人沙午女士的遗产。沙午创造了一种能在液态金属中生存的硅锡钠微生命,但她去世时已经无力维持这个生命圈的运转。她请陈把这些生命放生到最合适的地方——水星。亿万富翁… read more

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  • science fiction
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23. In the Moon's House (Lady Astronaut)

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.95

Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition

A new Lady Astronaut story! Dawn struggles to fit in with the rest of her team--the backup crew for… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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24. One Man's Treasure

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.77

Format: 29 pages, ebook

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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25. Introduction to 2181 Overture, Second Edition

By: Gu Shi

3.47

Format: 25 pages, ebook

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  • science fiction
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26. How to Raise a Kraken in Your Bathtub

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.78

Format: 27 pages, ebook

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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27. The Mausoleum's Children

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.35

Format: 20 pages, None

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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28. Tasting the Future Delicacy Three Times

By: Baoshu

3.83

Format: None pages, None

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  • science fiction
  • short stories

29. The Sound of Children Screaming

By: Rachael K. Jones

3.84

Format: None pages, ebook

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  • short stories

30. Answerless Journey

By: Han Song

3.05

Format: 10 pages, ebook

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  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • short stories
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31. Livesuit (The Captive’s War #1.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.45

Format: 90 pages, ebook

Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the e… read more

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  • science fiction

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Terry Bisson

3.70

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Peter Watts

4.01

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Aliette de Bodard

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