11 best-selling speculative fiction books like Not One of Us: Stories of Aliens on Earth by Neil Clarke

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Not One of Us: Stories of Aliens on Earth

By: Neil Clarke

3.82

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Mankind comes face to face with extraterrestrial life in this short fiction reprint anthology from …

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Cover of Agent of Byzantium by Isaac Asimov, Harry Turtledove

1. Agent of Byzantium

By: Isaac Asimov , Harry Turtledove

3.78

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Basil Argyros, an elite agent for the Byzantine Empire, realizes that the new invention of gunpowde… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
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2. The Bone Clocks

By: David Mitchell

3.84

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old li… read more

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  • science fiction
"The Future,"

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

"Books’ll be back,"

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

"Guys are all sperm-guns."

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

"Don’t mess with the fairies."

-David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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3. Tuf Voyaging

By: George R.R. Martin

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From the multiple award-winning, best-selling author of The Song of Ice and Fire series: Haviland T… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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4. Noumenon

By: Marina J. Lostetter

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series, the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a tou… read more

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  • science fiction
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5. Autonomous

By: Annalee Newitz

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

Autonomousfeatures a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her … read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6 by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Stephen Baxter, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Robert Reed, Catherynne M. Valente, Michael Swanwick, Jeffrey Ford, Ken Liu, Neil Gaiman, Peter Watts, K.J. Parker, Nnedi Okorafor, Karen Joy Fowler, Geoff Ryman, M. Rickert, Libba Bray, None, Paul McAuley, None, Peter S. Beagle, Robert Shearman, Margo Lanagan, Kij Johnson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, E. Lily Yu, Dylan Horrocks, Nalo Hopkinson, Hannu Rajaniemi, Ellen Klages, An Owomoyela

6. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6

By: Caitlín R. Kiernan , Stephen Baxter , Kelly Link , Ian McDonald , Robert Reed , Catherynne M. Valente , Michael Swanwick , Jeffrey Ford , Ken Liu , Neil Gaiman , Peter Watts , K.J. Parker , Nnedi Okorafor , Karen Joy Fowler , Geoff Ryman , M. Rickert , Libba Bray , None , Paul McAuley , None , Peter S. Beagle , Robert Shearman , Margo Lanagan , Kij Johnson , Cory Doctorow , Bruce Sterling , E. Lily Yu , Dylan Horrocks , Nalo Hopkinson , Hannu Rajaniemi , Ellen Klages , An Owomoyela

3.83

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The science fiction and fantasy fields continue to evolve, setting new marks with each passing year… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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7. 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
  • aliens
  • 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)

8. The Penultimate Truth

By: Philip K. Dick

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. … read more

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9. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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10. The Day of the Triffids

By: John Wyndham

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more

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11. Agent to the Stars

By: John Scalzi

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar f… read more

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12. The Gods Themselves

By: Isaac Asimov

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Protiv gluposti i bogovi sami bore se uzalud. U ne toliko dalekoj buducnosti, otkricem principa raz… read more

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13. The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

14. The Genius Plague

By: David Walton

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

What if the pandemic you thought would kill you made you more intelligent instead? In the Amazon ju… read more

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15. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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  • science fiction
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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16. The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)

By: Premee Mohamed

3.72

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"In silent agreement we squeeze into the window to study our valley. Unlovely in the early spring, crusted with think rime of muddy snow, the river still choked with ice, a single dark thread of water…"

-Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)

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17. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

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  • science fiction
  • aliens
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18. Revenge of the Librarians

By: Tom Gauld

3.94

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more

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19. The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.96

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coa… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe

20. The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

By: Janelle Monáe

3.76

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion ico… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
"Dreams aren't memories. They are memories' voices."

-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

"Some days Artis had to remind himself that his dad actually existed, that his mother was not a phantom. Remembering the dead was hard work."

-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

"Hearing her name, she gathered herself within the span of normalcy, just barely escaping the extra beat that would have made it weird. "Hey," she said. "I'm good, good."

-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

"Grandpapa and even Artis's friends believed that New Dawn was the most dangerous thing in their world. But Artis knew that wasn't true. Hope was. Having too much, having too little. Trying to work ou…"

-Janelle Monáe, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

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21. Head On (Lock In, #2)

By: John Scalzi

4.01

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and cr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1) by Django Wexler

22. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a … read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

23. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

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  • science fiction
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24. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

By: Eddie Robson

3.91

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as tra… read more

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  • science fiction
  • aliens
"We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"if you can control the stories a culture tells about itself, you can control who they are."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

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25. The Last Beekeeper

By: Julie Carrick Dalton

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Julie Carrick Dalton's The Last Beekeeper is a celebration of found family, an exploration of truth… read more

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  • science fiction
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26. Shadows of Eternity

By: Gregory Benford

3.28

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Shadows of Eternity is legendary author Gregory Benford’s return to interstellar science fiction as… read more

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  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
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27. The High House

By: Jessie Greengrass

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to mak… read more

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  • science fiction
"I only knew that when they came back, they brought fear with them. Tracked in like mud across the carpet."

-Jessie Greengrass, The High House

"—What they don’t seem to understand, she said, —is that anxiety is a perfectly reasonable response to what we are living through."

-Jessie Greengrass, The High House

"I thought that it was not defeat at all. Rather, it was a kind of furious defiance that had led her to have a child, despite all she believed about the future. A kind of pact with the world, that, ha…"

-Jessie Greengrass, The High House

"Somehow, while we had all been busy, while we had been doing those small things that added up to living, the future had slipped into the present—and despite the fact that we had known that it would c…"

-Jessie Greengrass, The High House

Cover of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020 by Diana Gabaldon

28. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020

By: Diana Gabaldon

3.73

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-sel… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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29. Red Moon

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.38

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system f… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"One sequence of these diary notes had lasted longer than most, and by their content he saw that they came from the time right after his father had died. One line stuck him like a thorn: Alone in the …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Moon

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30. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection

By: Gardner Dozois

4.03

Format: 704 pages, Kindle Edition

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries beli… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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31. Not One of Us: Stories of Aliens on Earth

By: Neil Clarke

3.82

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Mankind comes face to face with extraterrestrial life in this short fiction reprint anthology from … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction

7 must-read short stories books like Not One of Us: Stories of Aliens on Earth by Neil Clarke

Transform Your Habits

Agent of Byzantium

Isaac Asimov , Harry Turtledove

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Tuf Voyaging

George R.R. Martin

3.37

Transform Your Habits

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 6

Caitlín R. Kiernan , Stephen Baxter , Kelly Link , Ian McDonald , Robert Reed , Catherynne M. Valente , Michael Swanwick , Jeffrey Ford , Ken Liu , Neil Gaiman , Peter Watts , K.J. Parker , Nnedi Okorafor , Karen Joy Fowler , Geoff Ryman , M. Rickert , Libba Bray , None , Paul McAuley , None , Peter S. Beagle , Robert Shearman , Margo Lanagan , Kij Johnson , Cory Doctorow , Bruce Sterling , E. Lily Yu , Dylan Horrocks , Nalo Hopkinson , Hannu Rajaniemi , Ellen Klages , An Owomoyela

3.83

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The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

Janelle Monáe

3.76

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21 Top fiction books like Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

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Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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