13 best-selling science fiction books like The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories by Yu Chen

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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

By: Yu Chen

3.85

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story …

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1. Spirits Abroad

By: Zen Cho

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

"If you live near the jungle, you will realize that what is real and what is not real is not always… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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2. 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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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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3. 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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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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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4. 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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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"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)

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5. 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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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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6. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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7. The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

By: Yu Chen

3.85

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story … read more

Similar categories in Yu Chen's The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories book and Yu Chen's The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • china
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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8. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

By: Wole Talabi

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning Nigerian author presents a mythic tale of disgruntled… read more

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  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. Gods of Want: Stories

By: K-Ming Chang

3.68

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American wome… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"She claimed she could read palms, but when I gave her mine, she kissed my palms instead of reading them. She said my hands were designed to catch the rain like coins, even though it never rained. Her…"

-K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want: Stories

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11. 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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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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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

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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13. Siren Queen

By: Nghi Vo

3.68

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

“No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers.” Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate t… read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I already knew that being brave didn’t mean anything unless you were willing to do it again."

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

"I'm curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right."

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

"What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?" She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being …"

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

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14. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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15. Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories

By: Aviaq Johnston

3.74

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

“Taaqtumi” is an Inuktitut word that means “in the dark”—and these spine-tingling horror stories by… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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16. Never Have I Ever

By: Isabel Yap

3.99

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

“Am I dead?” Mebuyen sighs. She was hoping the girl would not ask. Spells and stories, urban … read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I don’t see how nightmares is your reward for something good. Where is your mercy? Where is your sense of doing what’s right—what one human would do? I am not human, and even I know."

-Isabel Yap, Never Have I Ever

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17. I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

By: Kim Bo-young

3.73

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Two worlds, four stories, infinite possibilities  In this mind-expanding work of speculative fic… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"People said this was the end of the world. I disagreed. It was simply the end of the human race. People said the gods had abandoned the world. I disagreed. Divine attention had simply shifted from us…"

-Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

"Now people refused to believe that they and the world were one and the same. That they and the Other were one and the same. They thought themselves alone, and drunk in their solitude, they questioned…"

-Kim Bo-young, I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories

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18. The Genesis of Misery

By: Neon Yang

3.44

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy from Neon Yang, author of The Black Tides of Heaven, full … read more

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  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

By: Sheree Renée Thomas

3.79

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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20. Buffalo Is the New Buffalo

By: Chelsea Vowel

4.13

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

"Education is the new buffalo" is a metaphor widely used among Indigenous peoples in Canada to sign… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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21. Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

By: Ken Liu

3.85

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGYSixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking science fi… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • china
  • fantasy
"Meaning was not reducible to language. But if it couldn't be spoken about, how could it exist?"

-Ken Liu, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

"Yellow-Beard said, “All the fire-oil carriages running about in Jinyang were built here. They make up more than half the Institute’s income. The newest model will be released soon. It’s called Elong …"

-Ken Liu, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

"It was three-quarters of the way into the hour of the sheep, after lunch but well before dinner, naturally a fine time for business in the brothels of Xuanren Ward. Powder and perfume steamed in the …"

-Ken Liu, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

"Las escalonadas ramas verdes del antiguo cipresal, cual si de un cortafuegos se tratara, nos separan del ruido y el polvo del mundo secular. No obstante, mi vida diaria no es ni de lejos aburrida: ba…"

-Ken Liu, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

21 best-selling fiction books like The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories by Yu Chen

Transform Your Habits

Spirits Abroad

Zen Cho

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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