22 must-read science fiction books like Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue" by Sheila Williams

Cover of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue" by Sheila Williams

Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

By: Sheila Williams

3.77

Format: 212 pages, Single Issue Magazine

September/October 2023. Check this out! Dean Whitlock ’s harrowing novelette about child labor is i…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue" by Sheila Williams , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3) by William Gibson

1. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

Cover of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

2. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

By: Ron Chernow

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dy… read more

Similar categories in Ron Chernow's Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

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

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science 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)

Cover of A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2) by Vernor Vinge

4. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.32

Format: 775 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstell… read more

Similar categories in Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
"So even in hell, there are clowns."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know"

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So high, so low, so many things to know."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

5. The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. … read more

Similar categories in Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun #1) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

Cover of Provenance (Imperial Radch) by Ann Leckie

6. Provenance (Imperial Radch)

By: Ann Leckie

3.84

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingray is determined to at least be consider… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Provenance (Imperial Radch) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
"Diplomat does not mean nice,"

-Ann Leckie, Provenance (Imperial Radch)

7. The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)

By: Dan Simmons

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forev… read more

Similar categories in Dan Simmons's The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

Cover of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

9. 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

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
Cover of Witch King by Martha Wells

10. 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

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science 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

Cover of To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky  Chambers

11. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

By: Becky Chambers

4.20

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's To Be Taught, If Fortunate book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Cover of Void (The Far Reaches, #2) by Veronica Roth

12. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's Void (The Far Reaches, #2) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
  • short stories
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

Cover of Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

13. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi

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

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

15. 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

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
Cover of The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak

16. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World

By: Shelley Puhak

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the Early Middle Ages who wielded i… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Puhak's The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

Cover of The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

17. 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

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science 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

Cover of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

18. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
Cover of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

19. 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

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • 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

Cover of Rose/House by Arkady Martine

20. 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

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

21. And What Can We Offer You Tonight

By: Premee Mohamed

3.60

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's And What Can We Offer You Tonight book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories by Premee Mohamed

22. No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories

By: Premee Mohamed

4.00

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

A collection of short fiction by award-winning author Premee Mohamed. read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's No One Will Come Back For Us and Other Stories book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant

23. Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

By: Brian Merchant

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story … read more

Similar categories in Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

"If the Luddites have taught us anything, it’s that robots aren’t taking our jobs. Our bosses are."

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"It’s the same story, time and again: a new technology that promises to alleviate work degrades it instead."

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"The Luddites knew exactly who owned the machinery they destroyed. They saw that automation is not a faceless phenomenon that we must submit to. And they were right: Automation is, quite often and qui…"

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

"Uber’s chief innovation is not that its app summons a car to your location with a smartphone and a GPS signal. It is that it used this moderately novel configuration of technology to argue that the o…"

-Brian Merchant, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

Cover of Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November/December 2023 by Trevor Quachri

24. Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November/December 2023

By: Trevor Quachri

3.73

Format: 212 pages, digest magazine

Vol. XCIII, Issue 11 & 12. Contents: 4 • Celebrate! • [Editorial (Analog)] • essay by Emily Hoc… read more

Similar categories in Trevor Quachri's Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November/December 2023 book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
Cover of The Siege of Burning Grass by Premee Mohamed

25. The Siege of Burning Grass

By: Premee Mohamed

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A stunning meditation on war, nationalism, violence and courage by a rising star of the genre. T… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Siege of Burning Grass book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
Cover of Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2) by M.R. Carey

26. Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2)

By: M.R. Carey

4.36

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Infinity Gate comes the second and final novel in the Pandominio… read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2) book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
Cover of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue" by Sheila Williams

27. Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

By: Sheila Williams

3.77

Format: 212 pages, Single Issue Magazine

September/October 2023. Check this out! Dean Whitlock ’s harrowing novelette about child labor is i… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue" book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter 2024 by Sheree Renée Thomas

28. The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter 2024

By: Sheree Renée Thomas

3.46

Format: 378 pages, ebook

None read more

Similar categories in Sheree Renée Thomas's The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter 2024 book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

Cover of Analog Science Fiction & Fact, September/October 2023 by Trevor Quachri

29. Analog Science Fiction & Fact, September/October 2023

By: Trevor Quachri

3.68

Format: 212 pages, digest magazine

Vol. XCIII, Issue 9 & 10. Contents: 4 • Disappointing Ben Franklin: Tough Choices Between Safet… read more

Similar categories in Trevor Quachri's Analog Science Fiction & Fact, September/October 2023 book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • science fiction
Cover of Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 164, January 2024 by Lightspeed Magazine

30. Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 164, January 2024

By: Lightspeed Magazine

3.60

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

LIGHTSPEED is a digital science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science … read more

Similar categories in Lightspeed Magazine's Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 164, January 2024 book and Sheila Williams's Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue"

  • short stories

8 best-selling short stories books like Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, September-October 2023 | "Special Slightly Spooky Issue" by Sheila Williams

Transform Your Habits

Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

Veronica Roth

3.86

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

Transform Your Habits

Rose/House

Arkady Martine

3.72

View all the books

27 Best audiobook books like Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

Cory Doctorow

4.13

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.