If you liked the science fiction plot in The Inaccessibility of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard , here is a list of 16 books like this:
1. The Ballad of Black Tom
By: Victor LaValle
3.85
Format: 149 pages, Paperback
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles… read more
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- urban fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"I wish I’d been more like my father,"-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
"Because to watch would be to understand the play isn't being staged for us."-Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom
2. A Dead Djinn in Cairo
By: P. Djèlí Clark
3.66
Format: 341 pages, ebook
Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantm… read more
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- mystery
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
3. The Lottery
By: Shirley Jackson
4.05
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fiction
"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery
4. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)
By: John Scalzi
4.00
Format: None pages,
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from… read more
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5. Penric’s Demon (Penric and Desdemona, #1)
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
4.20
Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition
On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- magic
- short stories
- fiction
- fantasy
6. The End of All Things (Old Man's War, #6)
By: John Scalzi
3.33
Format: 153 pages, Hardcover
Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with the … read more
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7. 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
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- mystery
- fiction
- science fiction
8. Thornhedge
By: T. Kingfisher
4.00
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone … read more
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- fantasy
- magic
- fiction
"Thorns die from the inside out, like priests."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"She was theirs; they were hers. The love of monsters was uncomplicated."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"Two hundred years. It was immense—unthinkable—and ultimately meant nothing at all. Two years or two hundred or two thousand. The magic endures"-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
"Greenteeth did not slap one another—not out of any virtue, but because a slap was such a useless thing underwater. When greenteeth brawled, it was with teeth and strangling fingers, spines and claws."-T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge
9. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
By: Martha Wells
4.22
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
10. The President Is Missing
By: Bill Clinton
3.85
Format: 513 pages, Kindle Edition
President Bill Clinton and bestselling novelist James Patterson have written a spellbinding thrille… read more
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- mystery
- fiction
"The media knows what sells—conflict and division. It’s also quick and easy. All too often anger works better than answers; resentment better than reason; emotion trumps evidence. A sanctimonious, sne…"-Bill Clinton, The President Is Missing
11. 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
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- science fiction fantasy
- 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)
12. 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
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- science fiction fantasy
- magic
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."-Martha Wells, Witch King
13. 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
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- fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- short stories
14. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
By: Nick Harkaway
4.03
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- mystery
- fantasy
- science fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
15. 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 fantasy
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"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)
16. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
By: Emily Tesh
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)
17. 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
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- mystery
- fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
18. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
By: Jasper Fforde
4.50
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- mystery
- fantasy
- science fiction
"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
19. 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
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- fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- short stories
20. 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
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- 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
21. 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
- science fiction fantasy
- 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)
22. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
By: Shannon Chakraborty
4.27
Format: 483 pages, Hardcover
Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fantasy
- fiction
23. Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)
By: C.L. Polk
3.87
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigu… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
- magic
- fiction
24. Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
By: Nino Cipri
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Kindle Edition
MP3 CD Format Nino Cipri's Finna is a rambunctious, touching story that blends all the horrors the … read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"We're here to tell you what to do if a worm-hole opens up on your shift!"-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"Getting lost for lack of a better option loses its appeal after a while."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"It was the most obnoxiously heterosexual thing Ava had seen since the last St. Patrick's Day parade."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
"My boss, Tricia, always said tat we were a family. I should have realised she meant that I would have to put up with constant bullshit."-Nino Cipri, Finna (LitenVerse, #1)
25. Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
By: Darcie Little Badger
4.00
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice crea… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
- fiction
"Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"She's say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
"She'd say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
26. Two Truths and a Lie
By: Sarah Pinsker
3.79
Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition
Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the st… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- mystery
- fantasy
- science fiction
"In that moment, she remembered Chris Bethel, pre-transition, playing Viola in Twelfth Night like a person who knew what it was to be shipwrecked on a strange shore. Good for him."-Sarah Pinsker, Two Truths and a Lie
27. Unnatural Life
By: Erin K. Wagner
3.52
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Murderbot meets To Kill a Mockingbird in Erin K. Wagner's An Unnatural Life , an interplanetary tal… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- short stories
- fiction
- mystery
- fantasy
- science fiction
28. As the Last I May Know
By: S.L. Huang
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
An alternate history short story looking at decisions and consequences, and what it takes to pull t… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- hugo awards
- fantasy
29. Questa storia non è la storia
By: John Wiswell
4.15
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
Vincitore Premio LocusFinalista Premio NebulaFinalista Premio Hugo…"Loro non capiscono cosa signifi… read more
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30. In the Moon's House (Lady Astronaut)
By: Mary Robinette Kowal
3.95
Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition
A new Lady Astronaut story! Dawn struggles to fit in with the rest of her team--the backup crew for… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
31. The Inaccessibility of Heaven
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.34
Format: 58 pages, ebook
None read more
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- urban fantasy
- science fiction fantasy
- magic
- short stories
- fiction
- mystery
- hugo awards
- fantasy
- science fiction
