Painless
By: Rich Larson
4.06
Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition
A man who can't feel pain has been bio-engineered to be a killing machine, but he refuses to give i…
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1. All the Birds in the Sky
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.59
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways un… read more
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- science fiction
"What was worse, being crazy or being evil?"-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
"Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other."-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
"When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos."-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
"Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises."-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky
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- short stories
3. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1 (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, #1)
By: Hayao Miyazaki , Toren Smith , David R. Lewis , Joe Yamazaki , Kaori Inoue
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societi… read more
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4. Waiting on a Bright Moon: A Tor.com Original
By: J.Y. Yang
3.84
Format: None pages,
Xin is an ansible, using her song magic to connect the originworld of the Imperial Authority and it… read more
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5. Clover
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.89
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Answering the question asked by readers of All the Birds in the Sky: what happened to Patricia's ca… read more
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6. Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
By: Seanan McGuire
3.85
Format: 174 pages, Hardcover
Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West… read more
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"I’m not stupid, I just don’t know stuff,"-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
"I’m not really into cremating my cookies."-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
"So please, can we go and tell her to stop? I need to exist. It’s important."-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
"That's why people shouldn't get too hung up on labels. Sometimes I think that's part of what we do wrong. We try to make things make sense, even when they're never going to."-Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
7. The Little Witch
By: M. Rickert
3.59
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
Every Halloween, an elderly woman hands out candy to a young trick-or-treater who's dressed as a wi… read more
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- short stories
- horror
8. How to Move Spheres and Influence People
By: Marko Kloos
3.95
Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition
For over 25 years, the Wild Cards universe has been entertaining readers with stories of superpower… read more
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- science fiction
- action
- short stories
9. Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds
By: Indrapramit Das
3.29
Format: 32 pages, ebook
A student of multiversal time travel slips from one version of New York to another, discovering th… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
10. Solution
By: Brian Evenson
3.62
Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition
As climate change wreaks havoc on the earth and the fate of humanity grows dire, a scientist makes … read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- horror
11. The Night Sun
By: Zin E. Rocklyn
3.40
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
Zin E. Rocklyn's "The Night Sun" speaks to the darkness that manifests around us and in ourselves —… read more
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- short stories
- horror
12. Any Way the Wind Blows
By: Seanan McGuire
3.70
Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition
In the original Tor.com story Any Way the Wind Blows, New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGu… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
13. Of Roses and Kings
By: Melissa Marr
3.33
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
In this dark, skewed take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is now the Red Queen, and her … read more
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- short stories
14. Articulated Restraint
By: Mary Robinette Kowal
3.85
Format: 26 pages, ebook
Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And some… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
15. As the Last I May Know
By: S.L. Huang
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
An alternate history short story looking at decisions and consequences, and what it takes to pull t… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- horror
16. Yellow and the Perception of Reality
By: Maureen F. McHugh
3.75
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh is a science fiction story about a woman w… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
17. The Night Soil Salvagers
By: Gregory Norman Bossert
2.61
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
A Tor.com original story from World Fantasy Award-winning author Gregory Norman Bossert. The Nig… read more
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- short stories
18. The Vetting
By: Michael Cassutt
3.14
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
A suspenseful near-future story from Michael Cassutt about what happens during the vetting process … read more
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- science fiction
- thriller
- short stories
19. Worth Her Weight in Gold (River of Teeth, #0.5)
By: Sarah Gailey
3.88
Format: 18 pages, Kindle Edition
Winslow Remington Houndstooth, notorious outlaw, handsomest heartbreaker in the American South, has… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
"She was faster than a secret spreading through a church picnic."-Sarah Gailey, Worth Her Weight in Gold (River of Teeth, #0.5)
20. A Forest, or a Tree
By: Tegan Moore
2.89
Format: 30 pages, ebook
"A Forest, or a Tree" is a nightmarish horror story from author Tegan Moore, a Tor.com Original. … read more
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- short stories
- horror
21. Painless
By: Rich Larson
4.06
Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition
A man who can't feel pain has been bio-engineered to be a killing machine, but he refuses to give i… read more
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- africa
- thriller
- short stories
- horror
- military science fiction
- action
- science fiction
22. The New Prometheus (The Mongolian Wizard, #9)
By: Michael Swanwick
3.81
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
The New Prometheus is the ninth story in the Mongolian Wizard universe. Hugo and Nebula Award-winni… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
23. Recoveries
By: Susan Palwick
3.61
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
Two women who have been friends since they were children—one a recovering alcoholic brought up by p… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
24. Set in Stone
By: K.J. Parker
3.97
Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition
A sculptor struggles when he is commanded to perpetuate the lies of a deceitful and cruel king... read more
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- short stories
25. The Hundredth House Had No Walls
By: Laurie Penny
3.58
Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition
Laurie Penny is an award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, essayist, public speaker and act… read more
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- short stories
26. Blue Morphos in the Garden
By: Lis Mitchell
3.54
Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition
Read Lis Mitchell's magical realist tale, Blue Morphos in the Garden, a Tor.com original short stor… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
27. One/Zero
By: Kathleen Ann Goonan
3.25
Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition
A near future novelette about the surge in AI that might bring hope to humanity if used well. In… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
28. Mama Bruise
By: Jonathan Carroll
3.33
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
Dark fantasy about a couple and their dog, a dog that behaves increasingly bizarrely, much to their… read more
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- short stories
- horror
29. Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)
By: Rachel Swirsky
2.83
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
From Nebula Award-winning author Rachel Swirsky comes a time traveling adventure Placed into Abyss … read more
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- short stories
- horror
30. The Unwanted Guest (The Locked Tomb, #3.5)
By: Tamsyn Muir
4.63
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Palamedes Sextus and Ianthe Tridentarius match wits on a dreamlike battlefield. read more
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- short stories
- horror
31. No Period
By: Harry Turtledove
3.07
Format: 15 pages, Kindle Edition
A man sets out to tell a story of his ex, which in turns becomes a story of the world. If only he c… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
