6 Best speculative fiction books like Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25) by Meg Elison

Cover of Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25) by Meg Elison

Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

By: Meg Elison

4.27

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

These are stories that ambush the reader with Elison's signature style: a drolly disturbing admixtu…

"When their [thin people] talk rolls around to calories and their moral obligation to hate themselves, I typically spread out as wide as I can. I can expand like a jellyfish; it is a particular advantage of the very fat. I conform to the shape of my container like a water balloon. Displaying maximum width, I'll eat anything I can get my hands on while they talk"

-Meg Elison, Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

"When their [thin people] talk rolls around to calories and their moral obligation to hate themselves, I typically spread out as wide as I can. I can expand like a jellyfish; it is a particular advantage of the very fat. I conform to the shape of my container like a water balloon. Displaying maximum width, I'll eat anything I can get my hands on while they talk"

-Meg Elison, Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

"When their [thin people] talk rolls around to calories and their moral obligation to hate themselves, I typically spread out as wide as I can. I can expand like a jellyfish; it is a particular advantage of the very fat. I conform to the shape of my container like a water balloon. Displaying maximum width, I'll eat anything I can get my hands on while they talk"

-Meg Elison, Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25) by Meg Elison , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of A Night in the Lonesome October by Gahan Wilson, Roger Zelazny, James Warhola

1. A Night in the Lonesome October

By: Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

All is not what it seems… In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowl… read more

Similar categories in Gahan Wilson's A Night in the Lonesome October book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Between by Tananarive Due

2. The Between

By: Tananarive Due

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

When Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a tr… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Between book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • science fiction
  • fiction

3. The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

By: Umberto Eco , Will Eisner , Sergei Nilus , Stephen Eric Bronner

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Eld… read more

Similar categories in Umberto Eco's The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

4. Remnant Population

By: Elizabeth Moon

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia's home. On this planet far away in space and time f… read more

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5. The Stars Are Legion

By: Kameron Hurley

1.50

Format: None pages,

Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is t… read more

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6. The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate #1)

By: J.Y. Yang

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children.… read more

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7. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer  Croft

8. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • fiction
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

Cover of No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1) by Cadwell Turnbull

9. No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

3.45

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. … read more

Similar categories in Cadwell Turnbull's No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1) book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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10. Womb City

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which be… read more

Similar categories in Tlotlo Tsamaase's Womb City book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
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11. Harold

By: Steven Wright

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the t… read more

Similar categories in Steven Wright's Harold book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • fiction
"Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color."

-Steven Wright, Harold

"She smelled too. Like a 22 year old girl. He tried to place that smell but he couldn't. It seemed like a mixture of skin lotion and confidence."

-Steven Wright, Harold

"In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know you do it, it doesn't matter to you at all you just want to keep on talking a verbal waterfall"

-Steven Wright, Harold

"Harold thought how weird and strange it must be to be a girl. He was glad he wasn’t one because he didn’t think he would be able to do that. Or he wouldn’t want to do that. It’s probably good that yo…"

-Steven Wright, Harold

Cover of The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar

12. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces by Eric LaRocca

13. They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

By: Eric LaRocca

3.59

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the viral sensation Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes They Were… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Twice-Drowned Saint by C.S.E. Cooney

14. The Twice-Drowned Saint

By: C.S.E. Cooney

4.10

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

"World Fantasy Award winner Cooney imagines angels as Lovecraftian monsters . . . Plenty of charm!"… read more

Similar categories in C.S.E. Cooney's The Twice-Drowned Saint book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • fiction
Cover of The World Wasn't Ready for You by Justin C. Key

15. The World Wasn't Ready for You

By: Justin C. Key

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Black Mirror meets Get Out in this gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. … read more

Similar categories in Justin C. Key's The World Wasn't Ready for You book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. The Mythic Dream

By: Dominik Parisien

3.90

Format: 368 pages, None

An all-new anthology of eighteen classic myth retellings featuring an all-star lineup of award-winn… read more

Similar categories in Dominik Parisien's The Mythic Dream book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker

17. Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

By: Sarah Pinsker

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The baker's dozen stories gathered here (including a new, previously unpublished story) turn reader… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pinsker's Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Temporary by Hilary Leichter

18. Temporary

By: Hilary Leichter

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In Temporary, a young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre pl… read more

Similar categories in Hilary Leichter's Temporary book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"Living is also a state of mourning."

-Hilary Leichter, Temporary

"It takes an aggressive empathy to accurately replace a person."

-Hilary Leichter, Temporary

"No one is ever exactly who they claim to be, but some people are closer than others."

-Hilary Leichter, Temporary

"Life is a stranger in a crowd whose intentions are unclear and, come to think of it, so is death."

-Hilary Leichter, Temporary

Cover of We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2) by Premee Mohamed

19. We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2)

By: Premee Mohamed

3.98

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

The enlivening follow-up to the award-winning sensation The Annual Migration of Clouds Traveling al… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's We Speak Through the Mountain (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #2) book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows (Feminine Pursuits, #2) by Olivia Waite

20. The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows (Feminine Pursuits, #2)

By: Olivia Waite

3.88

Format: 271 pages, ebook

When Agatha Griffin finds a colony of bees in her warehouse, it’s the not-so-perfect ending to a no… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Waite's The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows (Feminine Pursuits, #2) book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • fiction
Cover of Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25) by Meg Elison

21. Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

By: Meg Elison

4.27

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

These are stories that ambush the reader with Elison's signature style: a drolly disturbing admixtu… read more

Similar categories in Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25) book and Meg Elison's Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

  • short story collection
  • feminism
  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • essays
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"When their [thin people] talk rolls around to calories and their moral obligation to hate themselves, I typically spread out as wide as I can. I can expand like a jellyfish; it is a particular advant…"

-Meg Elison, Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25)

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