A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star
By: Kathleen Ann Goonan
3.91
Format: 160 pages, ebook
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1. Burning Girls
By: Veronica Schanoes
3.89
Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition
Burning Girls, by Veronica Schanoes, is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educ… read more
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"Learning and skill are things to be proud of; they are the stars that light the sky of one’s lifetime."-Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls
2. 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
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3. Brimstone and Marmalade
By: Aaron Corwin
3.77
Format: 300 pages, ebook
Just in time for Halloween, we have a funny, sweet, and slightly skewed short story by Aaron Corwin… read more
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4. A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon a Star
By: Kathleen Ann Goonan
3.91
Format: 160 pages, ebook
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5. The Hanging Game
By: Helen Marshall
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, ebook
Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Sky… read more
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6. The Witch of Duva (The Grisha, #0.5)
By: Leigh Bardugo
3.91
Format: 241 pages, ebook
There was a time when the woods near Duva ate girls...or so the story goes. But it's just possible … read more
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7. The Devil in America
By: Kai Ashante Wilson
4.50
Format: 142 pages, ebook
Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them acr… read more
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8. These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original
By: Cassandra Khaw
2.82
Format: 3 pages,
A horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her you… read more
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9. Tear Tracks
By: Malka Ann Older
3.89
Format: None pages, ebook
Flur traveled across the stars to make first contact with the Cyclopes, hoping to forge a peace tre… read more
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10. Cold Wind
By: Nicola Griffith
3.62
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
"Cold Wind", by Nicola Griffith, is a dark fantasy tale about a woman who enters a Seattle bar on a… read more
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11. Please Undo This Hurt
By: Seth Dickinson
4.16
Format: None pages, ebook
Ever feel like you care too much? After a breakup, after the funeral...it feels like the way to win… read more
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12. The Language of Knives
By: Haralambi Markov
4.50
Format: None pages, ebook
"The Language of Knives" by Haralambi Markov is about the death rituals of this secondary world. A … read more
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13. Six Months, Three Days
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.73
Format: 216 pages,
Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, bran… read more
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14. This World is Full of Monsters
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.38
Format: 38 pages, ebook
An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death an… read more
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"I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word."-Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters
15. Small Monsters
By: E. Lily Yu
3.91
Format: 37 pages, ebook
All it’s life, a small monster with emerald scales has been source of never-ending food to larger a… read more
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16. Blood in the Thread
By: Cheri Kamei
3.86
Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition
Content warning: This story contains fictional depictions of domestic violence.Nothing tears two wo… read more
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17. The Puppetmaster
By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa
3.71
Format: 15 pages, ebook
A banished warrior teaches her treacherous uncle that once made, some oaths cannot be broken...and … read more
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18. Porgee's Boar
By: Jonathan Carroll
3.79
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
An artist's work attracts the eye of Andrey Porgee, a notorious gangster, who becomes her best cust… read more
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19. Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds
By: Indrapramit Das
3.29
Format: 32 pages, ebook
A student of multiversal time travel slips from one version of New York to another, discovering th… read more
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20. After the Animal Flesh Beings
By: Brian Evenson
3.85
Format: 23 pages, ebook
A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with th… read more
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21. How to Cook and Eat the Rich
By: Sunyi Dean
3.78
Format: 9 pages, ebook
A man is offered the opportunity to partake in an exclusive, subscription-based eating club for tho… read more
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22. No Flight Without the Shatter
By: Brooke Bolander
3.76
Format: 32 pages, ebook
From the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, who "shares… read more
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- novella
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"Hatching is not the end of what lies inside the egg, only the end of the shell around it. There’s no flight without the shatter, and no flock without the flight. What we’re made of will go on. A fled…"-Brooke Bolander, No Flight Without the Shatter
23. The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections
By: Tina Connolly
4.23
Format: 30 pages, ebook
A young food taster to the Traitor King must make a difficult choice in this story of pastries, mag… read more
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24. Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
By: Daryl Gregory
3.91
Format: 42 pages, ebook
When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion--… read more
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"He could talk at length about the known invasive species, and why there were so many different ones: the weblike filaments choking the trees in New Orleans, the flame-colored poppies erupting on Mexi…"-Daryl Gregory, Nine Last Days on Planet Earth
25. Exile's End
By: Carolyn Ives Gilman
4.03
Format: 48 pages, ebook
Exile's End is a complex, sometimes uncomfortable examination of artifact repatriation and cultural… read more
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"How do you lose your name? When people stop telling your story. Why must we tell our story? Because others start telling it for us."-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End
"He came to the prison of ghosts; For Hoarder people do not free their dead. Their feet fall heavy, weighted by the past They do not hear the spirits cry for freedom They heap up secrets in an archive…"-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End
"Let’s sing of the lightbeam journey Of the man who was not a man Sent by the Whispering Kindom To search the sky for ghosts. How did he find the way? He followed the poison papers, He followed the sc…"-Carolyn Ives Gilman, Exile's End
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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"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. 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
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28. The Tale of Ak and Humanity
By: Yefim Zozulya
3.39
Format: 25 pages, ebook
"The Tale of Ak and Humanity" is a Tor.com Original from sci-fi author Yefim Zozula.Citizens are di… read more
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29. Counting Casualties
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.69
Format: 18 pages, ebook
Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more
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30. Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.78
Format: 719 pages, ebook
This year on July 20th, Tor dot com turned 15! Since that long-ago year of 2008, we’ve published mo… read more
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31. 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
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