19 Best science fiction books like The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers by Jeremy Packert Burke

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The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

By: Jeremy Packert Burke

3.05

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers is a Tor.com original science fiction story from Jeremy …

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers by Jeremy Packert Burke , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5) by Tamsyn Muir

1. The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.12

Format: 28 pages, ebook

Each of the Empire's houses keeps secrets, even from themselves. For the bookish academics of the S… read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5) book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I get sick thinking about some idiot trying to wheedle insight on my apparatus criticus from my ghost long after I’ve forgotten what it was"

-Tamsyn Muir, The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

"I get sick thinking about some idiot trying to wheedle insight on my apparatus criticus from my ghost long after I’ve forgotten what it was."

-Tamsyn Muir, The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

Cover of Hearts in the Hard Ground by G.V. Anderson

2. Hearts in the Hard Ground

By: G.V. Anderson

3.54

Format: 44 pages, ebook

Following the death of her mother, Fiona buys a new house in order to start a new chapter of her li… read more

Similar categories in G.V. Anderson's Hearts in the Hard Ground book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1) by Lavie Tidhar

3. Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

No vampire is ever innocent… The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for … read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1) book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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4. The Little Witch

By: M. Rickert

3.59

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Every Halloween, an elderly woman hands out candy to a young trick-or-treater who's dressed as a wi… read more

Similar categories in M. Rickert's The Little Witch book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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5. St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

By: C.L. Polk

3.86

Format: 21 pages, ebook

All magical requests comes with a price. A girl with witchcraft, no friends, and only her mother’s … read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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6. Solution

By: Brian Evenson

3.62

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

As climate change wreaks havoc on the earth and the fate of humanity grows dire, a scientist makes … read more

Similar categories in Brian Evenson's Solution book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • adult
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7. Flight

By: Claire Wrenwood

3.30

Format: 18 pages, ebook

As a girl, Maggie dreamed of joining the Sisters, a group of women who enjoy the status and attenti… read more

Similar categories in Claire Wrenwood's Flight book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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8. The Ones Who Look

By: Katharine Duckett

3.71

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Ethical Empire built the gate to heaven, and their employees hold the keys. By offering custom-buil… read more

Similar categories in Katharine Duckett's The Ones Who Look book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fantasy
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9. Blood Is Another Word for Hunger

By: Rivers Solomon

3.67

Format: 25 pages, ebook

Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can gr… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's Blood Is Another Word for Hunger book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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10. The Touches

By: Brenda Peynado

3.51

Format: 27 pages, ebook

Brenda Peynado's "The Touches" is a Tor.com Original short story set in a post-apocalyptic world Sa… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Peynado's The Touches book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
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11. An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands

By: Fran Wilde

2.91

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Fran Wilde's fantasy short story "An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands" is a Tor.com … read more

Similar categories in Fran Wilde's An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
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12. Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy

By: J.Y. Yang

3.73

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

As an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Lynette was haunted by the ghost of Mirror Boy, the drowned child … read more

Similar categories in J.Y. Yang's Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
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13. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Carroll's For He Can Creep book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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14. Seonag and the Seawolves

By: M. Evan MacGriogair

3.72

Format: 33 pages, ebook

Seonag is born on a day where the clouds race each other across the sky. A clan storyteller unfo… read more

Similar categories in M. Evan MacGriogair's Seonag and the Seawolves book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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15. Articulated Restraint

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.85

Format: 26 pages, ebook

Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And some… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's Articulated Restraint book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
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16. Wait for Night

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.90

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Wait for Night by Stephen Graham Jones is horror story about a day laborer hired to help clean up a… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Wait for Night book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
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17. The Time Invariance of Snow

By: E. Lily Yu

3.36

Format: 25 pages, ebook

The Devil made a mirror. A physicist broke it and shards fall through reality and changed everythin… read more

Similar categories in E. Lily Yu's The Time Invariance of Snow book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Love ’em, leave ’em. Sometimes I even leave them alive"

-E. Lily Yu, The Time Invariance of Snow

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18. Beyond the Dragon's Gate

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.73

Format: 20 pages, ebook

Former Academician Anna Kim’s research into AI cost her everything. Now, years later, the military … read more

Similar categories in Yoon Ha Lee's Beyond the Dragon's Gate book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
  • fantasy
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19. Old Media

By: Annalee Newitz

3.38

Format: 25 pages, ebook

The story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love … read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's Old Media book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • adult
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20. Anything Resembling Love

By: S. Qiouyi Lu

3.84

Format: 23 pages, ebook

All her life Sylvia has made sure to never let anyone see the centipedes that emerge from her body.… read more

Similar categories in S. Qiouyi Lu's Anything Resembling Love book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • fantasy
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21. The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.76

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Gods won’t save you. Gods will break you. Nevertheless, you will persist. And become anew. At th… read more

Similar categories in Maria Dahvana Headley's The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Yellow and the Perception of Reality by Maureen F. McHugh

22. Yellow and the Perception of Reality

By: Maureen F. McHugh

3.75

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

"Yellow and the Perception of Reality" by Maureen McHugh is a science fiction story about a woman w… read more

Similar categories in Maureen F. McHugh's Yellow and the Perception of Reality book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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23. On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.87

Format: 40 pages, ebook

An academic's whimsical decision to take a DNA test leads her into uncharted territory, where she d… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
"You can’t avoid the sea forever,"

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"You can’t win an argument with the sea."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"I guess interdimensional travel takes it out of you."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

"If his tone were any more soaked in exasperation, it would be dripping."

-Elizabeth Bear, On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera

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24. His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

By: Mimi Mondal

3.56

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

I am not a fighter. I am a trapeze master. An act of compassion puts a trapeze artist in India… read more

Similar categories in Mimi Mondal's His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
"I'll be honest - I had never heard anything like that. Not that I ever understood the elaborate social intricacies of the upper classes, but I always knew that I did not trust them, and her story jus…"

-Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

"Priests were born into the Brahmin caste, and I had met enough Brahmins in my life to know that not all of them were priests, or even had a shred of spirituality in them. Usually they were arrogant a…"

-Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

Cover of The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers by Jeremy Packert Burke

25. The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

By: Jeremy Packert Burke

3.05

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers is a Tor.com original science fiction story from Jeremy … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Perfection of Theresa Watkins by Justin C. Key

26. The Perfection of Theresa Watkins

By: Justin C. Key

3.66

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

Justin C. Key's "The Perfection of Theresa Watkins" is a skillful speculative exploration of the in… read more

Similar categories in Justin C. Key's The Perfection of Theresa Watkins book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • short stories
Cover of Zeitgeber by Greg Egan

27. Zeitgeber

By: Greg Egan

3.58

Format: 39 pages, ebook

For millions of years, life on Earth has taken its cues from the rising and setting of the sun, and… read more

Similar categories in Greg Egan's Zeitgeber book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
Cover of Water: A History by K.J. Kabza

28. Water: A History

By: K.J. Kabza

3.71

Format: 18 pages, ebook

The planet of Quányuán is arid to the point of being uninhabitable. Wetness is a concept left back … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Kabza's Water: A History book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • adult
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29. Deriving Life

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.77

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

In Deriving Life, love has no time limits, but life does. Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear gives… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
"I can never go back,"

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"I felt awful and I did an awful thing."

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"It’s my life to spend as I please, isn’t it?"

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"Impossibility doesn’t make the wanting go away."

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

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30. Beyond the El

By: John Chu

3.34

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Connor is a food crafter just getting back into the business after his mother’s death. To cope with… read more

Similar categories in John Chu's Beyond the El book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse) by Rachel Swirsky

31. Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse)

By: Rachel Swirsky

2.83

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

From Nebula Award-winning author Rachel Swirsky comes a time traveling adventure Placed into Abyss … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Swirsky's Placed into Abyss (Mise en Abyse) book and Jeremy Packert Burke's The Ashes of Around Twenty-Three Strangers

  • science fiction
  • short stories

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3.62

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Theodora Goss

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