17 must-read short stories books like Uncanny Magazine Issue 39: March/April 2021 by Lynne M. Thomas

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Uncanny Magazine Issue 39: March/April 2021

By: Lynne M. Thomas

4.15

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

The March/April 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Cath…

If you liked the short stories plot in Uncanny Magazine Issue 39: March/April 2021 by Lynne M. Thomas , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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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
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. 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
  • fiction
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3. 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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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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4. Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.80

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Acr… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We have always held the land above the one who rules it."

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"Such is the dichotomy of forests. Even the smallest remembers what it was to cover nations, and the shadows they contain will whisper the knowledge to anyone who listens."

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"I can be beautiful and limited at the same time...There's nothing wrong with being limited, as long as you have people around to make sure those limitations don't get you hurt"

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

"Destiny wasn't real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in in a certain way, and refuse to let it change"

-Seanan McGuire, Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

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5. Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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6. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

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7. 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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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"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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8. 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
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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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
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.03

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

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12. A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.62

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Well, Harold,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"If you like something, like it hard, because you don't have a lot of time to waste"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"I should have spent more time thinking about your life than worrying about your death."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

"I never stopped trying to save you, so don't you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered (Fractured Fables, #1)

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13. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

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14. 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
  • fantasy
  • 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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15. 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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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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16. 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
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. L'Esprit de L'Escalier

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.97

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente is a provocative retelling of the Greek myth, in wh… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Fireheart Tiger

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.40

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"

-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

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19. The Past Is Red

By: Catherynne M. Valente

4.11

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Ci… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The day I met her I knew I was never gonna be the girl from before I heard her voice ever again."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works."

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"But you can't ever imagine what you're going to care about when you turn into the version of you that’s waiting on the other side of five years from now. That’s a stranger waiting to ambush you, and …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

"She listens, and I wish I could give her a little gold trophy for it, but I can’t, because of all the things Fuckwits gave trophies for, they never thought listening like nothing exists but time and …"

-Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

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20. Little Free Library

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.03

Format: 12 pages, ebook

Sharing stories we love with one another is one of the most magical forms of connection there is. T… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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21. Apex Magazine Issue 121

By: Jason Sizemore

4.42

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

ORIGINAL FICTION - Root Rot by Fargo Tbakhi - Your Own Undoing by P H Lee - Love, That Hungry Th… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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22. Two Truths and a Lie

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.79

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the st… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"In that moment, she remembered Chris Bethel, pre-transition, playing Viola in Twelfth Night like a person who knew what it was to be shipwrecked on a strange shore. Good for him."

-Sarah Pinsker, Two Truths and a Lie

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23. Arch-Conspirator

By: Veronica Roth

3.43

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Without the Archive, where the genes of … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021

By: Neil Clarke

4.13

Format: 199 pages, ebook

FICTION Little Animals by Nancy Kress Poubelle by Robert Reed Bots of the Lost Ark by Suzanne Pa… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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25. 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
  • fiction
  • horror
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26. Questa storia non è la storia

By: John Wiswell

4.15

Format: 69 pages, Paperback

Vincitore Premio LocusFinalista Premio NebulaFinalista Premio Hugo…"Loro non capiscono cosa signifi… read more

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27. El pecado de América

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.29

Format: 42 pages, ebook

None read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
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28. Uncanny Magazine Issue 39: March/April 2021

By: Lynne M. Thomas

4.15

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

The March/April 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction by Cath… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
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29. Saturation Point

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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30. Tangles

By: Seanan McGuire

3.14

Format: None pages, ebook

None read more

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  • hugo awards
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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31. Apex Magazine, Issue 129, January 2022

By: Jason Sizemore

3.20

Format: 185 pages, ebook

Original Fiction: "It Happened in 'Loontown" by Lavie Tidhar "City Lights" by Yilun Fan (translat… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy

30 best-selling fiction books like Uncanny Magazine Issue 39: March/April 2021 by Lynne M. Thomas

Transform Your Habits

The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)

Seanan McGuire

3.80

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18 best-selling fiction books like Apex Magazine Issue 121 by Jason Sizemore

Transform Your Habits

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 132 (Clarkesworld Magazine #132)

Geoff Ryman , Neil Clarke , Tom Purdom , Kelly Robson , Suzanne Palmer , None , S. Qiouyi Lu , None , A. Brym , Stephanie M. Bucklin , Eric Schwitzgebel , None , Gu Shi

3.95

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

On the Fox Roads

Nghi Vo

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

Nghi Vo

4.24

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