The Poetry Cloud
By: Liu Cixin
3.51
Format: 27 pages, None
China’s most prolific sci-fi writer, Cixin Liu, adds to the New Weird genre in this short story, Th…
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1. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
2. Stories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
4.26
Format: 281 pages, ebook
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more
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- short stories
"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
3. The Big Time
By: Fritz Leiber
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past fr… read more
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- science fiction
4. The Comet
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
3.80
Format: 319 pages, ebook
In a vaguely futuristic yet oddly contemporary world, a passing comet casts a shadow of death over … read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
5. The Star
By: H.G. Wells , Goran Lowie
4.03
Format: 453 pages, ebook
First published in the magazine The Graphic, December 1897. In January (about 1900, presumably), th… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
6. Sing, Unburied, Sing
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.81
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2017 A searing and profound Southern odyssey. In Jesm… read more
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7. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
8. Bloodchild
By: Octavia E. Butler
5.00
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Contains the short story Bloodchild only. Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in sear… read more
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- short stories
9. The Jungle
By: Upton Sinclair , Earl Lee , None , Kathleen De Grave
3.95
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stoc… read more
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10. Vaster Than Empires and More Slow
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
3.86
Format: 302 pages, ebook
[A story of the "Hainish" series.] A volunteer group of humans and aliens embark on an exploratory … read more
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- short stories
11. The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
By: Dan Simmons
3.77
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far f… read more
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- science fiction
12. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
By: Dan Simmons
4.27
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more
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"You have to live to really know things, my love"-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
13. Under the Skin
By: Michel Faber
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us to Isserley, a female driver who cru… read more
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14. Sandkings
By: George R.R. Martin
4.22
Format: 206 pages, Mass Market Paperback
When Simon Kress returned to his home planet of Baldur from an offworld business trip, he was amuse… read more
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15. The Man with the Compound Eyes
By: Wu Ming-Yi , Darryl Sterk
3.89
Format: 202 pages, ebook
On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he turns fifteen as a sacrifice … read more
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16. The Word for World is Forest
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.36
Format: 189 pages, ebook
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more
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17. Nine Hundred Grandmothers
By: R.A. Lafferty
4.05
Format: 371 pages, Mass Market Paperback
CONTENTS: Nine Hundred Grandmothers Land of the Great Horses Ginny Wrapped in the Sun The Six Finge… read more
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18. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
19. Day Million
By: Frederik Pohl
4.21
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Contents: Day Million (1966) The Deadly Mission of P. Snodgrass (1962) The Day the Martians Came (1… read more
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21. The Last Question
By: Isaac Asimov , Bob E. Flick , None
3.78
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when human… read more
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23. 2BR02B
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.43
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
2BR02B is a satiric short story that imagines life & death in a future world where aging has been "… read more
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24. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
By: Ken Liu
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantas… read more
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25. The Devotion of Suspect X
By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husb… read more
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26. The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.14
Format: 64 pages, ebook
Through one of the gates, a colony stands alone. Their supplies are low. Their defenses, weak. The … read more
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- short stories
27. Emergency Skin
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.03
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subver… read more
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- short stories
"We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources …"-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin
"No, there’s no one left alive on Tellus. The planet was in full environmental collapse across every biome when our people left. There were just too many people, and too many of those were unfit, infi…"-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin
28. We Spread
By: Iain Reid
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A new work of philosophical suspense. Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for deca… read more
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"The love I'd felt for him faded and detached. There was nothing to hold it in place. No more mystery. Nothing to learn. Wonder was replaced with awareness. By the end, it wasn't just familiarity. I h…"-Iain Reid, We Spread
"We do not all blend together. We are not ruined, helpless, a burden. We are not the elderly. We are not old people. Now, still, we're unique. Distinct. Regardless of what we've produced or what happe…"-Iain Reid, We Spread
29. Randomize
By: Andy Weir
3.53
Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition
In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in t… read more
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30. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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31. The Poetry Cloud
By: Liu Cixin
3.51
Format: 27 pages, None
China’s most prolific sci-fi writer, Cixin Liu, adds to the New Weird genre in this short story, Th… read more
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