5 must-read short stories books like Callahan's Secret (Callahan's #3) by Spider Robinson

Cover of Callahan's Secret (Callahan's #3) by Spider Robinson

Callahan's Secret (Callahan's #3)

By: Spider Robinson

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Callahan's Placeis open for business, and all of the "regulars" are here--a talking dog, an alcohol…

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Cover of Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3) by Terry Pratchett

1. Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.25

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch — now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiff… read more

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  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
"...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault)."

-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)

"Mrs. Earwig said the village women know what to do,"

-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)

"Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese."

-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)

"Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!"

-Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)

Cover of Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1) by Stephen R. Lawhead

2. Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)

By: Stephen R. Lawhead

4.00

Format: 496 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the capture… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Only a fool demands proof of what he already knows."

-Stephen R. Lawhead, Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)

"I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten."

-Stephen R. Lawhead, Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)

"There cannot be even the smallest grain of falsehood in it or it is not truth. I have discovered the source of all truth; how can I deny what I know?"

-Stephen R. Lawhead, Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)

"The female heart is a world unto itself, incomprehensible to men. Yet I perceive that you have been of a mood today: pensive, contemplative, hesitant, expectant. And you have spent the better part of…"

-Stephen R. Lawhead, Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)

Cover of King Javan's Year (The Heirs of Saint Camber, #2 ) by Katherine Kurtz, Michael Herring

3. King Javan's Year (The Heirs of Saint Camber, #2 )

By: Katherine Kurtz , Michael Herring

4.11

Format: 481 pages, Mass Market Paperback

With young young King Alroy on his deathbed, the power-hungry Regents are plotting to keep the legi… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Uhura's Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21) by Janet Kagan

4. Uhura's Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21)

By: Janet Kagan

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Years ago, Lieutenant Uhura befriended a diplomat from Eeiauo, a land of graceful, catlike beings. … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Friends are friends,"

-Janet Kagan, Uhura's Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21)

"there is very little 'of course' when it comes to custom"

-Janet Kagan, Uhura's Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21)

"Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will."

-Janet Kagan, Uhura's Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21)

"Never underestimate small things, Captain, they have to be meaner than larger ones to survive."

-Janet Kagan, Uhura's Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21)

Cover of On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1) by David Weber

5. On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington, #1)

By: David Weber

3.41

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Honor Harrington in trouble: Having made him look the fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

6. The Windup Girl

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

7. Babel-17

By: Samuel R. Delany

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Bastard Prince (Heirs of Saint Camber, #3) by Katherine Kurtz

8. The Bastard Prince (Heirs of Saint Camber, #3)

By: Katherine Kurtz

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER The power-hungry former Regents of the three Haldane princes were pleased.… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Callahan's Secret (Callahan's #3) by Spider Robinson

9. Callahan's Secret (Callahan's #3)

By: Spider Robinson

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Callahan's Placeis open for business, and all of the "regulars" are here--a talking dog, an alcohol… read more

Similar categories in Spider Robinson's Callahan's Secret (Callahan's #3) book and Spider Robinson's Callahan's Secret (Callahan's #3)

  • time travel
  • humor
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat, #4) by Harry Harrison

10. The Stainless Steel Rat (Stainless Steel Rat, #4)

By: Harry Harrison

3.67

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the vastness of space, the crimes just get bigger and Slippery Jim diGriz, the Stainless Steel R… read more

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  • science fiction
  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

11. Stand on Zanzibar

By: John Brunner

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporati… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Camber the Heretic (The Legends of the Camber of Culdi, #3) by Katherine Kurtz

12. Camber the Heretic (The Legends of the Camber of Culdi, #3)

By: Katherine Kurtz

3.90

Format: 77 pages,

With King Cinhil, a human, about to die, the Deryni will be handed over to persecution, terror, and… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Virtual Light (Bridge, #1) by William Gibson

13. Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)

By: William Gibson

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction

14. The Terminal Experiment

By: Robert J. Sawyer

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

To test his theories of immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electr… read more

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Cover of Rimrunners (The Company Wars, #3) by C.J. Cherryh

15. Rimrunners (The Company Wars, #3)

By: C.J. Cherryh

3.87

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Loki is a mercenary ship and bounty hunter. Bet Yeager is a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

16. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

By: Robert A. Heinlein

2.83

Format: 64 pages,

When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his table, Dr. Richard Ames… read more

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17. Saint Camber (The Legends of Camber of Culdi, #2)

By: Katherine Kurtz

4.33

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Camber of Culdi, master of arcane Deryni powers, led a successful revolution against Imre, his… read more

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18. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)

By: Larry Niven

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more

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19. Capitol (Worthing, #1)

By: Orson Scott Card

3.00

Format: 18 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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20. Nightflyers

By: George R.R. Martin

2.57

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine misfit academics embark on an expedition, and the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a cyb… read more

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Cover of The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6) by Lois McMaster Bujold

21. The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.27

Format: 346 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hugo Award Winner! Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Academy, joins a mutiny, is placed under hou… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He who plots revenge must dig two graves."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

"He’d slam his fist into the wall in frustration but the wall was sure to slam back with greater devastation."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

"But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of, how shall I put this precisely, subordination. You argue too much."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

"The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it."

-Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game (Vorkosigan Saga, #6)

Cover of Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0) by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling

22. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling

4.06

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

23. The Snow Queen (The Snow Queen Cycle, #1)

By: Joan D. Vinge

4.00

Format: None pages,

This reissue of a modern classic of science fiction, the Hugo and Locus Award-winning and Nebula-no… read more

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Cover of Spelunking Through Hell (InCryptid, #11) by Seanan McGuire

24. Spelunking Through Hell (InCryptid, #11)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now in trade paperback, the eleventh book in the fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Void (The Far Reaches, #2) by Veronica Roth

25. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

Cover of A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith

26. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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  • humor
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Cover of Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) by Nnedi Okorafor

27. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

28. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Wizard's Butler by Nathan Lowell

29. The Wizard's Butler

By: Nathan Lowell

4.39

Format: 500 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0865326GF For five grand a month and a million dollar chaser,… read more

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  • humor
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

30. The Doors of Eden

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.87

Format: 609 pages, ebook

Lee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Bridge to Bat City by Ernest Cline

31. Bridge to Bat City

By: Ernest Cline

3.35

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

After losing her mother, thirteen-year-old Opal B. Flats moves in with her uncle Roscoe on the fami… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

23 must-read fiction books like Callahan's Secret (Callahan's #3) by Spider Robinson

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Wintersmith (Discworld, #35; Tiffany Aching, #3)

Terry Pratchett

4.25

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Taliesin (The Pendragon Cycle #1)

Stephen R. Lawhead

4.00

Transform Your Habits

King Javan's Year (The Heirs of Saint Camber, #2 )

Katherine Kurtz , Michael Herring

4.11

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Uhura's Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21)

Janet Kagan

4.06

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A Thief of Time (Leaphorn & Chee, #8)

Tony Hillerman

4.12

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The Callahan Touch (Mary's Place, #1; Callahan's, #6)

Spider Robinson

4.20

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Uhura's Song (Star Trek: The Original Series #21)

Janet Kagan

4.06

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Freedom's Challenge (Catteni, #3)

Anne McCaffrey

3.98

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