17 must-read short stories books like Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022 by Neil Clarke

Cover of Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022 by Neil Clarke

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…

If you liked the short stories plot in Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022 by Neil Clarke , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) by Aliette de Bodard

1. The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen… read more

Similar categories in Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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2. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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3. 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

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • 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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4. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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5. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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6. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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7. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. 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 Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. D.I.Y

By: John Wiswell

3.76

Format: 25 pages, ebook

When the the elitist institution of Ozymandias Academy and its headmaster, Vamon Kinctuarin, can't … read more

Similar categories in John Wiswell's D.I.Y book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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11. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) by Alix E. Harrow

12. A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured … read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go."

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

"The mirror showed me you, out of all the possible people in all the universes,' It sounds almost like an apology. 'Why?' 'Well, what were you doing at the time?' 'I was looking into the mirror, obvio…"

-Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended (Fractured Fables, #2)

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13. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

14. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

Cover of Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) by Nghi Vo

15. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

16. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

Similar categories in Naseem Jamnia's The Bruising of Qilwa book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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18. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.57

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of ni… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Daughter of Doctor Moreau book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We all have a animal double, Englishman."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"She wishes to take flight. If she had wings she’d have reached the horizon."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"He was thirty-five years old and couldn’t remember who he’d wanted to be at twenty. He’d lost himself long ago."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

"Her father had been entirely indifferent to such structured learning. Schools leave you without ambition, he said."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

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19. 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

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Ogres

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

A bleak glimpse of a world of savage tyrants, from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky in a bea… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Ogres book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams by Bartosz Sztybor

21. Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams

By: Bartosz Sztybor

3.31

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Two scavengers veer paths in their pursuit of happiness through the streets of Night City. Tasha… read more

Similar categories in Bartosz Sztybor's Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Difference Between Love and Time by Catherynne M. Valente

22. The Difference Between Love and Time

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.83

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Tor is pleased to reprint “The Difference Between Love and Time” by Catherynne M. Valente, as featu… read more

Similar categories in Catherynne M. Valente's The Difference Between Love and Time book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022 by Lynne M. Thomas

23. Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022

By: Lynne M. Thomas

4.17

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

The November/December 2022 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction b… read more

Similar categories in Lynne M. Thomas's Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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24. A Dream of Electric Mothers

By: Wole Talabi

3.89

Format: 22 pages, ebook

We’re excited to reprint “A Dream of Electric Mothers,” the 2023 Nebula Award–nominated novelette b… read more

Similar categories in Wole Talabi's A Dream of Electric Mothers book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Two hours into the third session of our fourth cabinet meeting on the border dispute with the co-operative kingdom of Dahomey, my colleagues finally agree that we need to seek the dream-counsel of ou…"

-Wole Talabi, A Dream of Electric Mothers

Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 47: July/August 2022 by Lynne M. Thomas

25. Uncanny Magazine Issue 47: July/August 2022

By: Lynne M. Thomas

3.72

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

Cover: The Wizard of Light by Kirbi Fagan Editorials: “The Uncanny Valley” by Lynne M. Thomas … read more

Similar categories in Lynne M. Thomas's Uncanny Magazine Issue 47: July/August 2022 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of I Am AI: A Novelette by Ai Jiang

26. I Am AI: A Novelette

By: Ai Jiang

4.11

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to su… read more

Similar categories in Ai Jiang's I Am AI: A Novelette book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 50, January-February 2023 by Lynne M. Thomas

27. Uncanny Magazine Issue 50, January-February 2023

By: Lynne M. Thomas

3.97

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The January/February 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine . Our landmark Issue 50, a … read more

Similar categories in Lynne M. Thomas's Uncanny Magazine Issue 50, January-February 2023 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

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

28. 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

Similar categories in Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 55: November/December 2023 by Lynne M. Thomas

29. Uncanny Magazine Issue 55: November/December 2023

By: Lynne M. Thomas

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

The November/December 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. Featuring new fiction b… read more

Similar categories in Lynne M. Thomas's Uncanny Magazine Issue 55: November/December 2023 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Uncanny Magazine, Issue 52, May/June 2023 by Lynne M. Thomas

30. Uncanny Magazine, Issue 52, May/June 2023

By: Lynne M. Thomas

3.43

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

The May/June 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine . Featuring new fiction by Aliett… read more

Similar categories in Lynne M. Thomas's Uncanny Magazine, Issue 52, May/June 2023 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Nightmare Magazine, Issue 133, October 2023 by Wendy N. Wagner

31. Nightmare Magazine, Issue 133, October 2023

By: Wendy N. Wagner

3.66

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Issue #133 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Rachael K. Jones ("The Soun… read more

Similar categories in Wendy N. Wagner's Nightmare Magazine, Issue 133, October 2023 book and Neil Clarke's Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022

  • short stories
  • fantasy

28 must-read fiction books like Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 195, December 2022 by Neil Clarke

Transform Your Habits

The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)

Aliette de Bodard

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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