13 Top science fiction books like Uncanny Magazine Issue 34: May/June 2020 by Lynne M. Thomas

Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 34: May/June 2020 by Lynne M. Thomas

Uncanny Magazine Issue 34: May/June 2020

By: Lynne M. Thomas

3.82

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

The May/June 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction …

If you liked the science fiction plot in Uncanny Magazine Issue 34: May/June 2020 by Lynne M. Thomas , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang

1. The Lifecycle of Software Objects

By: Ted Chiang

3.92

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, "Many people thi… read more

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"recession after the latest flu pandemic,"

-Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

"Experience is algorithmically incompressible."

-Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

"[S]kill at debate isn't the same as maturity."

-Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

"Obviously you’re going to have your hands full,"

-Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Cover of 14 Cows for America by Thomas Gonzalez, Carmen Agra Deedy, Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah

2. 14 Cows for America

By: Thomas Gonzalez , Carmen Agra Deedy , Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

In June of 2002, a ceremony begins in a village in western Kenya. Hundreds of Maasai surround an Am… read more

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3. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 52 (Clarkesworld Magazine, #52)

By: Yoon Ha Lee , Ken Liu , Neil Clarke , None , Daniel M. Kimmel

4.36

Format: 189 pages,

FICTION "Ghostweight" by Yoon Ha Lee "Tying Knots" by Ken Liu NON-FICTION "Fly Me to the Moon: Roma… read more

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4. Garlic and the Vampire

By: Bree Paulsen

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A farm-fresh debut graphic novel starring a heroine who is braver than she realizes. Garlic feel… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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6. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more

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"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Cover of Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) by Martha Wells

7. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

Cover of The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) by Ann Leckie

8. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi

9. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) by Nnedi Okorafor

10. 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
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. Exhalation

By: Ted Chiang

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more

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  • fiction
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  • fantasy
"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

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12. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

By: Warsan Shire

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more

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"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."

-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

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13. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky  Chambers

14. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

Cover of Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1) by Suzanne Palmer

15. Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)

By: Suzanne Palmer

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From Hugo Award-winning debut author Suzanne Palmer comes an action-packed sci-fi caper starring Fe… read more

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  • fiction
"your species has such wonderful contradictions that we find you a maddening puzzle."

-Suzanne Palmer, Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)

"F--- that," she interrupted. "If everyone always waited till they felt ready, we'd all still be fish living on trees."

-Suzanne Palmer, Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)

"Where do you feel your pull?" the Shielder asked. "That's how you become unstuck, by going where you are meant to be drawn, or where there are unfinished drawings of you that need completion."

-Suzanne Palmer, Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)

Cover of Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018 by Jason Sizemore

16. Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

By: Jason Sizemore

4.49

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-b… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I’m not a natural rule-follower. I roll through stop signs, I swear in public, I lie on online personality tests so I get the answers I want (Hermione, Arya Stark, Jo March)."

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"He took The Runaway Prince home and renewed it twice online, at which point a gray pop-up box that looks like an emissary from 1995 tells you, “the renewal limit for this item has been reached."

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"The boy returned at ten-thirty on a Tuesday morning. It’s official library policy to report truants to the high school, because the school board felt we were becoming 'a haven for unsupervised and il…"

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

"God save me from the yearners. The insatiable, the inconsolable, the ones who chafe and claw against the edges of the world. No book can save them. (That’s a lie. There are Books potent enough to sav…"

-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018

Cover of The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3) by Katherine Arden

17. The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)

By: Katherine Arden

4.49

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Following their adventures in The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower, Vasya and Mor… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The more one knows, the sooner one grows old"

-Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)

"Men do the work of devils, do they not? It has always been so."

-Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)

"You were such a sweet child, when I first met you by this very tree,"

-Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)

"You are not alone, he said, in a voice no one but she could hear. Remember."

-Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy, #3)

Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 34: May/June 2020 by Lynne M. Thomas

18. Uncanny Magazine Issue 34: May/June 2020

By: Lynne M. Thomas

3.82

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

The May/June 2020 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring all-new short fiction … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022 by Neil Clarke

19. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

By: Neil Clarke

3.75

Format: 225 pages, ebook

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each m… read more

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15 best-selling fiction books like Uncanny Magazine Issue 34: May/June 2020 by Lynne M. Thomas

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