18 must-read science fiction books like We're Here, We're Here by K.M. Szpara

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We're Here, We're Here

By: K.M. Szpara

3.64

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Joining a boyband gave Tyler everything he ever dreamed of. A close-knit group of friends, the chan…

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1. The Emperor and the Endless Palace

By: Justinian Huang

3.52

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

“What if I told you that the feeling we call love is actually the feeling of metaphysical recogniti… read more

Similar categories in Justinian Huang's The Emperor and the Endless Palace book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • romance
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"Despair not. History is carved by men who did not have their fathers' favor."

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"You mean like a past life?' Calvin says. Garden snorts. 'Are you for real?' 'Excuse me, this is a "yes and" environment, G,' Calvin replies, 'and billions of people around the world believe in reinca…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

"[River] 'Maybe he was just trying to shake me off. I mean, why would he want to be with me?' Without warning, Calvin bonks me on the side of my head, not hard, though it startles me, and some wine sp…"

-Justinian Huang, The Emperor and the Endless Palace

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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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • romance
  • short stories
  • lgbt
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3. Little Free Library

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.03

Format: 12 pages, ebook

Sharing stories we love with one another is one of the most magical forms of connection there is. T… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Little Free Library book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • short stories
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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6. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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8. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • romance
  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. Of Roses and Kings

By: Melissa Marr

3.33

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

In this dark, skewed take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice is now the Red Queen, and her … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Marr's Of Roses and Kings book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
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11. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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13. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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15. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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16. Everything's Fine

By: Matthew Pridham

4.01

Format: 21 pages, Kindle Edition

Matthew Pridham's dark fantasy tale "Everything's Fine," a Tor.com Original Eric’s day is off to a … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Pridham's Everything's Fine book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • short stories
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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18. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. The Night Soil Salvagers

By: Gregory Norman Bossert

2.61

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A Tor.com original story from World Fantasy Award-winning author Gregory Norman Bossert. The Nig… read more

Similar categories in Gregory Norman Bossert's The Night Soil Salvagers book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • music
  • short stories
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20. A Forest, or a Tree

By: Tegan Moore

2.89

Format: 30 pages, ebook

"A Forest, or a Tree" is a nightmarish horror story from author Tegan Moore, a Tor.com Original. … read more

Similar categories in Tegan Moore's A Forest, or a Tree book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • short stories
  • fiction
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21. The Song

By: Erinn L. Kemper

3.22

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful near future story about two people on a whale-processing rig: one a researcher, the othe… read more

Similar categories in Erinn L. Kemper's The Song book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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22. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"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

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23. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
Cover of We're Here, We're Here by K.M. Szpara

24. We're Here, We're Here

By: K.M. Szpara

3.64

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Joining a boyband gave Tyler everything he ever dreamed of. A close-knit group of friends, the chan… read more

Similar categories in K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • romance
  • music
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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25. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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26. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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27. 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 K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
"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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28. Blue Morphos in the Garden

By: Lis Mitchell

3.54

Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition

Read Lis Mitchell's magical realist tale, Blue Morphos in the Garden, a Tor.com original short stor… read more

Similar categories in Lis Mitchell's Blue Morphos in the Garden book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Knowledgeable Creatures

By: Christopher Rowe

3.37

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

A dog detective is hired by a female human to investigate a murder that she committed. But of cours… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Rowe's Knowledgeable Creatures book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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30. Skinner Box

By: Carole Johnstone

3.40

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

"Skinner Box," a Tor.com Original short story from award-winning author Carole Johnston.A disturbin… read more

Similar categories in Carole Johnstone's Skinner Box book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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31. One/Zero

By: Kathleen Ann Goonan

3.25

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

A near future novelette about the surge in AI that might bring hope to humanity if used well. In… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Ann Goonan's One/Zero book and K.M. Szpara's We're Here, We're Here

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

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Justinian Huang

3.52

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Little Free Library

Naomi Kritzer

4.03

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Claire Wrenwood

3.30

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Blood Is Another Word for Hunger

Rivers Solomon

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Theodora Goss

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Lavie Tidhar

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Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels (Judge Dee, #2)

Lavie Tidhar

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C.L. Polk

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