7 must-read anthologies books like The People’s Republic of Everything by Nick Mamatas

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The People’s Republic of Everything

By: Nick Mamatas

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“[Mamatas] is the People’s Commissar of Awesome.” —China Miéville, author of Embassytown Welcom…

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1. The Colorado Kid

By: Stephen King

3.38

Format: 178 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. On… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
"Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see."

-Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

"For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging hi…"

-Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

"Todos cayeron del árbol y se rompieron el brazo alguna vez, todos recuerdan lo travieso que fueron cuando eran niños, lo que no recuerdan, es a sus madres levantándose en medio de la noche para darle…"

-Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

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2. Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing

By: Lauren Beukes

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

In her edgy, satiric debut collection, award-winning South African journalist and author Lauren Beu… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Beukes's Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing book and Nick Mamatas's The People’s Republic of Everything

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology by Charles Stross, William Gibson, Michael Swanwick, Pat Cadigan, Jonathan Lethem, Greg Egan, Mary Rosenblum, James Patrick Kelly, Paul Di Filippo, John Kessel, Walter Jon Williams, Gwyneth Jones, Elizabeth Bear, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, Paolo Bacigalupi, David Marusek, Christopher  Rowe

3. Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

By: Charles Stross , William Gibson , Michael Swanwick , Pat Cadigan , Jonathan Lethem , Greg Egan , Mary Rosenblum , James Patrick Kelly , Paul Di Filippo , John Kessel , Walter Jon Williams , Gwyneth Jones , Elizabeth Bear , Cory Doctorow , Bruce Sterling , Paolo Bacigalupi , David Marusek , Christopher Rowe

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the current … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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4. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969

By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues,… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

5. Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their w… read more

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6. The Monstrous

By: John Langan , Caitlín R. Kiernan , Jeffrey Ford , Adam-Troy Castro , Steve Rasnic Tem , Gemma Files , Kim Newman , Glen Hirshberg , Christopher Fowler , Peter Straub , Gardner Dozois , Brian Hodge , Ellen Datlow , Jack Dann , Terry Dowling , Stephen Graham Jones , Dale Bailey , Sofia Samatar , Livia Llewellyn , A.C. Wise , Carole Johnstone , None

3.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

From the best horror editor in the business comes the quintessential horror anthology: The Monstrou… read more

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7. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

By: M.R. James , James McBride , E.F. Bleiler

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Eight classics by great Edwardian scholar and storyteller. "Number Thirteen," "The Mezzotint," "Can… read more

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8. Fearful Symmetries

By: Ellen Datlow

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

**Winner of the 2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology** Edited by Hugo award-winning… read more

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9. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.35

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.… read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) book and Nick Mamatas's The People’s Republic of Everything

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Love and freedom don't coexist."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"Have you been eating sand again?' [Cam asked] 'I haven't eaten sand in months', Nona protested, then more truthfully: 'Weeks,' and more truthfully than that: 'one week."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

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10. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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11. The Midnight Circus

By: Jane Yolen

3.67

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the Midnight Circus - and watch your step. The dark imaginings of fantasy icon Jane Yole… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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12. Ivory Apples

By: Lisa Goldstein

3.35

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Ivy and her sisters have a secret: their reclusive Great-Aunt is actually Adela Martin, inspired au… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Goldstein's Ivory Apples book and Nick Mamatas's The People’s Republic of Everything

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Meet Me in the Future: Stories

By: Kameron Hurley

3.84

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

When renegade author Kameron Hurley (The Light Brigade; The Stars Are Legion) takes you to the futu… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen by Kage Baker

14. Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen

By: Kage Baker

3.93

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

From Metropolis to the pre-technicolor Oz, this fantastical retrospective takes readers through the… read more

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15. The Last Tsar's Dragons

By: Jane Yolen

2.86

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule t… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Nucleation

By: Kimberly Unger

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

We are live, we are live, we are live . . . Helen Vectorovich holds the unique distinction of f… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. The Best of Michael Moorcock

By: Michael Moorcock

3.56

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

"Moorcock crosses genres, bends boundaries, and breaks rules as only a master storyteller can.” —L… read more

Similar categories in Michael Moorcock's The Best of Michael Moorcock book and Nick Mamatas's The People’s Republic of Everything

  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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18. The New Voices of Science Fiction

By: Hannu Rajaniemi

4.02

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Your future is bright! After all, your mother is a robot, your father has joined the alien hive-min… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The People’s Republic of Everything by Nick Mamatas

19. The People’s Republic of Everything

By: Nick Mamatas

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“[Mamatas] is the People’s Commissar of Awesome.” —China Miéville, author of Embassytown Welcom… read more

Similar categories in Nick Mamatas's The People’s Republic of Everything book and Nick Mamatas's The People’s Republic of Everything

  • literature
  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

14 Best fiction books like The People’s Republic of Everything by Nick Mamatas

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The Colorado Kid

Stephen King

3.38

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Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing

Lauren Beukes

4.20

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Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

Charles Stross , William Gibson , Michael Swanwick , Pat Cadigan , Jonathan Lethem , Greg Egan , Mary Rosenblum , James Patrick Kelly , Paul Di Filippo , John Kessel , Walter Jon Williams , Gwyneth Jones , Elizabeth Bear , Cory Doctorow , Bruce Sterling , Paolo Bacigalupi , David Marusek , Christopher Rowe

3.91

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969

Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill

4.19

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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

4.15

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Seth Dickinson

4.12

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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