23 must-read fantasy books like Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell

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Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories

By: Tobias S. Buckell

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Traffic is piling up, and strange things are heading your way in this new collection by World Fanta…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. The John Varley Reader

By: John Varley

4.27

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

From the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills and fountain pens, even mechanical pencils, and went straight to one of the fi…"

-John Varley, The John Varley Reader

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2. The Chimes

By: Charles Dickens

3.54

Format: 230 pages,

"The Chimes" is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Vec… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction

3. The Lost Level

By: Brian Keene

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

When modern-day occultist Aaron Pace discovers the secrets of inter-dimensional travel via a mystic… read more

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4. Hogfather (Discworld, #20; Death, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expect… read more

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5. Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

By: Roger Zelazny

3.75

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burn… read more

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6. The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41; Tiffany Aching, #5)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.25

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A shivering of worlds. Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense i… read more

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7. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Fear cannot breed where there is action."

-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

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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
  • fiction
  • horror
"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

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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
  • 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)

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10. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By: Shubnum Khan

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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11. Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

By: Martha Wells

4.31

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. When M… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) book and Tobias S. Buckell's Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans so the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

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12. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

Similar categories in Naseem Jamnia's The Bruising of Qilwa book and Tobias S. Buckell's Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Lies Dreaming (Laundry Files, #10; The New Management, #1) by Charles Stross

13. Dead Lies Dreaming (Laundry Files, #10; The New Management, #1)

By: Charles Stross

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world where magic has gone mainstream, a policewoman and a group of petty criminals are pulled… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Gordon actually wore the company uniform as if he meant it, unlike Bill, who occupied his uniform like a hermit crab living in an abandoned Coke can."

-Charles Stross, Dead Lies Dreaming (Laundry Files, #10; The New Management, #1)

"As the old saying had it, if you owe the bank ten thousand pounds, you have a problem; if you owe the bank ten million pounds, the bank has a problem; and if you owe the bank ten billion pounds, the …"

-Charles Stross, Dead Lies Dreaming (Laundry Files, #10; The New Management, #1)

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14. The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

By: Matt Ruff

3.94

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

“Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”— … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. The Extractionist

By: Kimberly Unger

3.61

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

2023 Philip K. Dick Award Winner In her latest exciting technothriller, acclaimed author Kimberl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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17. Bridge

By: Lauren Beukes

3.68

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge,… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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18. Neom

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Machines roam the desert in search of purpose; works of art can be deadlier than weapons, and impro… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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19. The Beautiful Ones

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash o… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I think she wanted nothing from me, nothing at all but to let her love me."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Beautiful Ones

"I think she wanted nothing from me," Hector added, "nothing at all but to let her love me."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Beautiful Ones

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20. The Tangleroot Palace

By: Marjorie M. Liu

3.98

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestseller and Hugo, British Fantasy, Romantic Times, and Eisner award-winning autho… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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21. Boys, Beasts & Men

By: Sam J. Miller

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In Nebula Award-winning author Sam J. Miller’s devastating debut short-fiction collection, featurin… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Stupid of me to think that just because her empathy extended to monsters like Kong, it would reach all the way to monsters like me."

-Sam J. Miller, Boys, Beasts & Men

"We walk. Two bodies, two wild separate beings. Sex tingles all through me: the hunger for it, for the joy that is more than just the pleasure of it, or the pride of being desired Of connecting to som…"

-Sam J. Miller, Boys, Beasts & Men

Cover of 2024 SciFi Anthology (The Science Fiction Novelists, #4) by S.A. Gibson

22. 2024 SciFi Anthology (The Science Fiction Novelists, #4)

By: S.A. Gibson

3.87

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

For Lovers of Speculative Science Fiction This, our fourth, anthology brings you a collection of 2… read more

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23. How to Mars

By: David Ebenbach

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality television nightmare? This debut science-… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"We have been told that this is what it means to be alive."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"Holding hands in spacesuits is not very much like holding actual hands, but it's something."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"What you have here is a women who's travelled more than a hundred millions miles in order to become, I guess, a biologist with no bio to ology"

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"What do you think it means?" she says in a low, conspiratorial voice. "What do YOU think it means?" I say. It's an old psychologist move, that one."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

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24. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

By: Jason Pargin

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bes… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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25. Crazy in Poughkeepsie (Neddie & Friends, #6)

By: Daniel Pinkwater

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The inimitable Daniel Pinkwater (The Big Orange Splot; The Hoboken Chicken Emergency) brings his za… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
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26. The Unbalancing

By: R.B. Lemberg

4.08

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

New love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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27. The Peculiarities

By: David Liss

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From popular historical alternate history author David Liss (A Conspiracy of Paper) comes the tale … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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28. New Adventures in Space Opera

By: Jonathan Strahan

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Have you ever wanted a faster-than-light trip to the future? Are you tired of reading science ficti… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories

By: Tobias S. Buckell

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Traffic is piling up, and strange things are heading your way in this new collection by World Fanta… read more

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  • short story collection
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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30. Fantastic Americana

By: Josh Rountree

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Yesterday... a giant lost himself in America, forever running from the supernatural killers who pur… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of A Conventional Boy (Laundry Files, #13; New Management, #4) by Charles Stross

31. A Conventional Boy (Laundry Files, #13; New Management, #4)

By: Charles Stross

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1984, Derek Reilly was just another spotty teenage dungeon master growing up in middle England. … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror

25 Best fiction books like Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell

Transform Your Habits

The John Varley Reader

John Varley

4.27

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The Chimes

Charles Dickens

3.54

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I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

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21 Top fiction books like The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan

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The Warm Hands of Ghosts

Katherine Arden

4.02

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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