16 Best science fiction books like Across the Dark Water by Richard Kadrey

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Across the Dark Water

By: Richard Kadrey

3.54

Format: 47 pages, ebook

An uncontrollable plague has left the city in ruins and trapped in perpetual quarantine. A thief hi…

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Cover of Badge, Book, and Candle (Bookburners #1.1) by Max Gladstone, Brian Francis Slattery, Mur Lafferty, Margaret Dunlap

1. Badge, Book, and Candle (Bookburners #1.1)

By: Max Gladstone , Brian Francis Slattery , Mur Lafferty , Margaret Dunlap

3.38

Format: None pages, ebook

Some books have teeth. Magic is real, and hungry--trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a fe… read more

Similar categories in Max Gladstone's Badge, Book, and Candle (Bookburners #1.1) book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. Dead Pig Collector

By: Warren Ellis

3.81

Format: 215 pages, ebook

From the wicked imagination of award-winning writer Warren Ellis comes DEAD PIG COLLECTOR, a love s… read more

Similar categories in Warren Ellis's Dead Pig Collector book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
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3. The Real-Town Murders

By: Adam Roberts

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Alma is a private detective in a near-future England, a country desperately trying to tempt people … read more

Similar categories in Adam Roberts's The Real-Town Murders book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Things (Eric Carter #1) by Stephen Blackmoore

4. Dead Things (Eric Carter #1)

By: Stephen Blackmoore

3.17

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Necromancer is such an ugly word, but it's a title Eric Carter is stuck with. He sees ghosts, talks… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Blackmoore's Dead Things (Eric Carter #1) book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • fiction
  • horror

5. A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark

By: Harry Connolly

3.80

Format: None pages, ebook

A MYSTERIOUS KILLING After years of waging a secret war against the supernatural, Marley Jacobs put… read more

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6. How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story

By: John Scalzi

3.51

Format: 383 pages, ebook

Everyone wants to know how I proposed to Claire. Well, it's complicated... read more

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Cover of Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1) by Lavie Tidhar

7. 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

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1) book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

8. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2) by Lavie Tidhar

9. Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2)

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.89

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Judge Dee is back to solve a brand-new case involving the mysterious death of the vampire Count Wer… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2) book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) by Cassandra Khaw

10. The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.66

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey have teamed up to deliver a dark new story wi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1) book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • fiction
  • horror
"Julie felt its hunger ripple eover her, listened: It was waiting for the city to die. It would wait forever. It did not need this to come to pass now. It was used to waiting. It knew, in the way of g…"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

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11. 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 Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
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12. World Engines: Destroyer

By: Stephen Baxter

3.82

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Baxter's World Engines: Destroyer book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
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13. 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

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. 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

Similar categories in Garth Nix's The Necessary Arthur book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. Flight

By: Claire Wrenwood

3.30

Format: 18 pages, ebook

As a girl, Maggie dreamed of joining the Sisters, a group of women who enjoy the status and attenti… read more

Similar categories in Claire Wrenwood's Flight book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

16. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Men, Women, and Chainsaws by Stephen Graham Jones

17. 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

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Men, Women, and Chainsaws book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1) by Rachel Aaron

18. Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1)

By: Rachel Aaron

4.39

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

The Crew A hulked-out wrath demon who eats gamer rage and loves cats, a shapeshifting lust demon w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Aaron's Hell for Hire (Tear Down Heaven #1) book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • fiction
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19. #Selfcare

By: Annalee Newitz

3.54

Format: 30 pages, ebook

From the Lambda award-winning author of Autonomous comes Annalee Newitz's Tor.com Original short st… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's #Selfcare book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. Beyond the Dragon's Gate

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.73

Format: 20 pages, ebook

Former Academician Anna Kim’s research into AI cost her everything. Now, years later, the military … read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Beyond the Dragon's Gate book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. 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

Similar categories in Manish Melwani's The Dominion of Leviathan book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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22. If You Take My Meaning

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.66

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sh… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Jane Anders's If You Take My Meaning book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
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23. A Memory of Wind

By: Rachel Swirsky

3.81

Format: 41 pages, ebook

The heroes are eager to sail to Troy for war, but the wind is still. To fill their sails and set ou… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Swirsky's A Memory of Wind book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of What It Means To Be A Car by James Patrick Kelly

24. 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 Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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25. The Tyger

By: Tegan Moore

3.29

Format: 25 pages, ebook

“The Path Through Time” is Jules’s favorite part of the museum, a marvelous exhibit that brings the… read more

Similar categories in Tegan Moore's The Tyger book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Across the Dark Water by Richard Kadrey

26. Across the Dark Water

By: Richard Kadrey

3.54

Format: 47 pages, ebook

An uncontrollable plague has left the city in ruins and trapped in perpetual quarantine. A thief hi… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • romance
  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • illness
Cover of On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera by Elizabeth Bear

27. On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.87

Format: 40 pages, ebook

An academic's whimsical decision to take a DNA test leads her into uncharted territory, where she d… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
"You can’t avoid the sea forever,"

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"You can’t win an argument with the sea."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"I guess interdimensional travel takes it out of you."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"If his tone were any more soaked in exasperation, it would be dripping."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

Cover of The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner

28. The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

By: C.M. Waggoner

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afo… read more

Similar categories in C.M. Waggoner's The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • fiction
Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

29. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • novella
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Heat (Crossroads Queen, #7) by Annabel Chase

30. Dead Heat (Crossroads Queen, #7)

By: Annabel Chase

4.53

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

It isn’t easy being the liminal deity of a multirealm crossroads, as Lorelei Clay can attest. There… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Chase's Dead Heat (Crossroads Queen, #7) book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

Cover of Livesuit (The Captive’s War #1.5) by James S.A. Corey

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

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's Livesuit (The Captive’s War #1.5) book and Richard Kadrey's Across the Dark Water

  • science fiction
  • fiction

26 must-read fiction books like Across the Dark Water by Richard Kadrey

Transform Your Habits

Badge, Book, and Candle (Bookburners #1.1)

Max Gladstone , Brian Francis Slattery , Mur Lafferty , Margaret Dunlap

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Dead Pig Collector

Warren Ellis

3.81

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The Real-Town Murders

Adam Roberts

3.50

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Dead Things (Eric Carter #1)

Stephen Blackmoore

3.17

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19 Best fiction books like The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner

Transform Your Habits

So Thirsty

Rachel Harrison

4.03

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A Sorceress Comes to Call

T. Kingfisher

4.24

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The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco

Michelle Chouinard

3.87

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Richard Osman

4.33

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