7 must-read short stories books like The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree Jr.

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The Girl Who Was Plugged In

By: James Tiptree Jr.

3.56

Format: 35 pages, None

James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) is primarily renowned for her short fiction, but this piece,…

"There's nothing in the news except what they want people to know. Half the country could burn up and nobody would know it if they didn't want."

-James Tiptree Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In

"There's nothing in the news except what they want people to know. Half the country could burn up and nobody would know it if they didn't want."

-James Tiptree Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In

If you liked the short stories plot in The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree Jr. , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

By: Osamu Dazai , Ralph F. McCarthy

3.74

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Blue Bamboo is a collection of seven short stories by one of Japan's preeminent postwar writers and… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
"When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn."

-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

"Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance."

-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

"It seems that when people are in a state of euphoria, they don’t always notice the suffering of others."

-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

"It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling."

-Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

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2. Freshwater

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.02

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more

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  • fiction
"It wasn’t me,"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

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3. Muhtelif Evhamlar Kitabı

By: Ömür İklim Demir

4.11

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

"Ne diyeyim, huzur tuhaf şey arkadaş, ancak kaybedecek bir şeyin kalmadığında gelip seni buluyor." … read more

Similar categories in Ömür İklim Demir's Muhtelif Evhamlar Kitabı book and James Tiptree Jr.'s The Girl Who Was Plugged In

  • short stories
  • fiction
"İnsanları bilmem ama hayvanlar beni hep çok sevmiştir."

-Ömür İklim Demir, Muhtelif Evhamlar Kitabı

"Kendime vereceğim bir iyi, bir de kötü haberim var. Kötü haber: Hayatımda hiçbir şey hayal ettiğim kadar iyi olmayacak. İki artı bir evde, yalnız başıma uzun yıllar daha yaşayacağım. İyi haber: Hayat…"

-Ömür İklim Demir, Muhtelif Evhamlar Kitabı

4. Bloodchild

By: Octavia E. Butler

5.00

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Contains the short story Bloodchild only. Years ago a group known as the Terrans left Earth in sear… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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5. Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

3.68

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwa… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
"Love once, love always"

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

"Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."

-George Eliot, Silas Marner

6. Johnny Mnemonic

By: William Gibson , Terry Bisson

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Synopsis: Johnny is a courier. He carries data, uploaded into his brain through a jack implanted in… read more

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7. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

By: James Hogg , John Carey

3.88

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

James Hogg wrote about the supernatural powerfully and convincingly, especially in his best-known n… read more

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8. Herland

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Ann J. Lane

3.68

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An all-female society is discovered somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth by three male exp… read more

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9. The Amphibian

By: None , None , Alexander Belyaev

4.12

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

The Amphibian will throw you back to a time when skin and deep-sea diving had not yet made the Sile… read more

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  • science fiction
  • classics
  • fiction

10. Definitely Maybe

By: Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

Someone or something threatens the lives of leading scientists who are on the verge of major breakt… read more

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11. The Status Civilization

By: Robert Sheckley

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Will Barrent had no memory of his crime . . . but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal… read more

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12. The Screwfly Solution

By: James Tiptree Jr. , None

3.50

Format: None pages,

The Screwfly Solution" is a 1977 science fiction short story by Raccoona Sheldon, a pen name for ps… read more

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13. Gun Island

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07DNDDFLD Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns De… read more

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  • fiction
"That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"... there was a land of sugar, where everything was sweet; and also a country made of cloth, and an island of chains."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"Sometimes, said Moyna, it seemed as though both land and water were turning against those who lived in the Sunderbans."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

Cover of The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree Jr.

14. The Girl Who Was Plugged In

By: James Tiptree Jr.

3.56

Format: 35 pages, None

James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) is primarily renowned for her short fiction, but this piece,… read more

Similar categories in James Tiptree Jr.'s The Girl Who Was Plugged In book and James Tiptree Jr.'s The Girl Who Was Plugged In

  • classics
  • literature
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"There's nothing in the news except what they want people to know. Half the country could burn up and nobody would know it if they didn't want."

-James Tiptree Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In

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15. Aliens: Bishop

By: T.R. Napper

3.99

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A direct sequel to Aliens and Alien 3 —Weyland-Yutani, the Colonial Marines, and Bishop’s creator a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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16. Nasıl Ölünür

By: Émile Zola

3.77

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Ölüm gerçek, ölüm döşeği tabu, cenaze ortak, yas bireysel… Peki ölüm herkesi eşitler mi? Romanla… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • classics
  • short stories
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17. Dansa Davet

By: Jean Teulé

3.13

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

"Dans etmek bir çığlığı susturmak mı?" Dansa Davet, 1518 yılında görülen, dünyanın en ilginç top… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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18. Geri Giden Saat

By: Edward Page Mitchell

3.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“Edward Page Mitchell, Amerika’dan çıkan en büyük bilimkurgu yazarlarından biri.” –Sam Moskowitz … read more

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  • classics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction

19. A Sketch of the Past

By: Virginia Woolf

4.05

Format: None pages, None

Minningabrot eins fremsta rithöfundar 20. aldarinnar, Virginiu Woolf, sem hér birtast eru vitnisbur… read more

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"A great part of everyday is not lived consciously. One walks, eats, sees things, deals with what has to be done; the broken vacuum cleaner; ordering dinner; writing orders to Mabel; washing; cooking …"

-Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past

"It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole …It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what; making a scene come right; making a character come tog…"

-Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past

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20. Mutlu Olma Sanatı

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

3.78

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Mutlu olmak, mutlu yaşamak mümkün müdür? Schopenhauer’in radikal kötümserliği, onun felsefesini … read more

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  • classics

21. The Gernsback Continuum

By: William Gibson

3.39

Format: None pages, None

Ein 1980, das es nie gab Ein Fotograf erhält den Auftrag, die einst futuristische, jetzt allerdi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • short stories
  • cyberpunk

13 must-read fiction books like The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree Jr.

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Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

Osamu Dazai , Ralph F. McCarthy

3.74

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Freshwater

Akwaeke Emezi

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Muhtelif Evhamlar Kitabı

Ömür İklim Demir

4.11

Bloodchild

Octavia E. Butler

5.00

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Transform Your Habits

Beş Sevim Apartmanı: Rüya Tabirli Cinperi Yalanları

Mine Söğüt

4.09

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Cadı

Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar

3.35

Transform Your Habits

Mutsuzluk Zamanlarında Mutluluk

Zehra Aksu Yılmazer , Wilhelm Genazino

3.35

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Jean-Louis Fournier , Zafer Demez

3.94

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