11 best-selling science fiction fantasy books like Deriving Life by Elizabeth Bear

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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…

"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

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Deriving Life by Elizabeth Bear , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Wind in His Heart

By: Charles de Lint

4.49

Format: 545 pages, ebook

De Lint's first adult fantasy novel in 8 years weaves a rich tapestry of story with classic CdL ele… read more

Similar categories in Charles de Lint's The Wind in His Heart book and Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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2. Waters of Versailles

By: Kelly Robson

3.73

Format: 69 pages, ebook

Waters of Versailles by Kelly Robson is a charming novella of court intrigue in 1738 Versailles as … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Robson's Waters of Versailles book and Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories

3. The Jewel and Her Lapidary

By: Fran Wilde

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From Fran Wilde, the Andre Norton and Compton Crook Award-winning author of Updraft. The kingdom in… read more

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4. Lullaby for a Lost World

By: Aliette de Bodard

3.68

Format: 330 pages, ebook

Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up thr… read more

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5. Passing Strange

By: Ellen Klages

4.23

Format: 11 pages, ebook

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the ci… read more

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6. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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8. The Deep

By: Rivers Solomon

3.78

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underw… read more

Similar categories in Rivers Solomon's The Deep book and Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"What is belonging?"

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Forgetting was not the same as healing."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"It is easy to do that with the past, even with the blessing of the full visions of the history."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

"Then don't die." Yetu said... "Stay with me and we will make a new thing. What's behind us, it is done."

-Rivers Solomon, The Deep

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9. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • short stories
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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11. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • short stories
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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13. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • short stories
  • fiction
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16. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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18. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

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

-E. Lily Yu, The Time Invariance of Snow

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20. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • lgbt
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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21. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
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22. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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23. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"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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24. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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26. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative 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

Cover of Blue Morphos in the Garden by Lis Mitchell

27. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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28. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. 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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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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 Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
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31. Machine's Last Testament

By: Benjanun Sriduangkaew

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

To give humanity peace, the artificial intelligence Samsara will wage an eternal war . . . In a … read more

Similar categories in Benjanun Sriduangkaew's Machine's Last Testament book and Elizabeth Bear's Deriving Life

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer

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