16 Top short stories books like Rocket's Red (Lady Astronaut Universe, #4.4) by Mary Robinette Kowal

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Rocket's Red (Lady Astronaut Universe, #4.4)

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.87

Format: None pages, ebook

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If you liked the short stories plot in Rocket's Red (Lady Astronaut Universe, #4.4) by Mary Robinette Kowal , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of The Dead City (The Shadow War of the Night Dragons #1) by John Scalzi

1. The Dead City (The Shadow War of the Night Dragons #1)

By: John Scalzi

3.76

Format: 11 pages, ebook

An over-the-top, humorous short story representing the prologue for a "future" book (written as an … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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2. Lawn Boy

By: Jonathan Evison

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

"Jonathan Evison's voice is pure magic. In Lawn Boy, at once a vibrant coming-of-age novel and a sh… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3) by Ann Leckie

3. Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

By: Ann Leckie

4.22

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Ancillary Mercy is the third book in the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice. For a moment… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Please, sir."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"There was not ... universal enthusiasm at the prospect of treating Humans as Significant beings."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

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4. The City Born Great

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.49

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, the winner of this yea… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. Redshirts

By: John Scalzi

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

6. Mind of My Mind (Patternmaster, #2)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Mass Market Paperback

For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his pr… read more

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7. 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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8. Hansel and Gretel

By: Neil Gaiman , Lorenzo Mattotti

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

This all happened a long time ago, in your grandmother's time, or in her grandfather's. A long time… read more

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9. The Hemingway Hoax

By: Joe Haldeman

3.69

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

In 1992 the young Hemingway, still promise in the world of letters, suffers the loss of a suitcase … read more

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10. Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

By: None , Becky Chambers

4.12

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are fr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"We're our own warning."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"If you never leave, you'll always wonder.  You'll wonder what your life could've been, if you did the right thing. Well... scratch that. You'll always wonder if you did the right thing, no matter wha…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"We are the wealthiest species alive today. We want for nothing. Without us, there would be no tunnels, no ambi, no galactic map. But we achieved these things through subjugation. Violence. We destroy…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

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11. 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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  • science fiction
  • 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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12. Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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13. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

Cover of Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

14. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

Cover of Void (The Far Reaches, #2) by Veronica Roth

15. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

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16. 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
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
Cover of Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

17. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

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

18. 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 fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Pages to Fill (Legends & Lattes, #0.5) by Travis Baldree

19. Pages to Fill (Legends & Lattes, #0.5)

By: Travis Baldree

3.63

Format: 33 pages, ebook

Short story prequel to Legends & Lattes. It is available in the book Legends & Lattes, second editi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. The Raven Tower

By: Ann Leckie

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Can you hear me now? I'm talking to you."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"What is it that makes language a far more powerful—and risky—tool for gods than it is for even humans? What is it that makes gods gods? What am I?"

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Given a bit more time he might have realized that what kept him alive was the same god whose continued existence drained his power so relentlessly."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important—except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

Cover of The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5) by James S.A. Corey

21. The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.14

Format: 64 pages, ebook

Through one of the gates, a colony stands alone. Their supplies are low. Their defenses, weak. The … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
Cover of How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

22. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

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

23. 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 fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Waverider (Amulet #9) by Kazu Kibuishi

24. Waverider (Amulet #9)

By: Kazu Kibuishi

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

The highly anticipated, thrilling conclusion to Kazu Kibuishi's #1 New York Times bestselling serie… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Hyperthief: A Tale of the Cytoverse (Skyward, #3.1) by Brandon Sanderson

25. Hyperthief: A Tale of the Cytoverse (Skyward, #3.1)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.75

Format: 18 pages, Paperback

It's FM's birthday, but it's not looking to be "happy." To make things worse, her boyfriend, Rig, i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer by Garth Nix

26. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Stories of the Witch Knight and the Puppet Sorcerer

By: Garth Nix

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author Garth Nix’s exciting adult debut: a new collection including all… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
Cover of In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4) by Seanan McGuire

27. In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.16

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather … read more

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  • fiction
"No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"She was ordinary. She was remarkable. Of such commonplace contradictions are weapons made."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

"There is wanting and there is needing, and when you want, you can make good choices, but when you need, it’s important the people around you not be looking to take advantage."

-Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)

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28. The Specialist's Hat

By: Kelly Link

3.52

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Winner of the 1999 World Fantasy Award for best short story. Something is creeping up the stair… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing by Kendall Dunkelberg

29. A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing

By: Kendall Dunkelberg

4.05

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

This introductory creative writing text uses a unique, multi-genre approach to provide students wit… read more

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Cover of Rocket's Red (Lady Astronaut Universe, #4.4) by Mary Robinette Kowal

30. Rocket's Red (Lady Astronaut Universe, #4.4)

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.87

Format: None pages, ebook

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  • historical
  • science fiction fantasy
  • alternate history
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Constituent Service: A Third District Story by John Scalzi

31. Constituent Service: A Third District Story

By: John Scalzi

3.92

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The aliens are here . . . and they want municipal services! Ashley Perrin is fresh out of colleg… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

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3.76

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Jonathan Evison

3.18

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Ann Leckie

4.22

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4.08

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Martha Wells

4.15

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