A Short Walk Through a Wide World
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Curated category · 2006—2025
Best science fiction & fantasy
Award-winning and editorially recommended science fiction & fantasy across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.
- Selections
- 341
- Authors
- 263
- Lists & prizes
- 5
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
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An Academy for Liars
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Annie Bot
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Blackheart Man
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Blood of the Old Kings
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Blue Lard
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Bride
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Dead in Long Beach, California
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Haunt Sweet Home
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House of Flame and Shadow
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Long Live Evil
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Metal from Heaven
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Nicked
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Ours
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Pink Slime
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Rakesfall
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Real Americans
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Some Desperate Glory
Hugo Award for Best Novel
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
On 2 lists: Nebula Award for Best Novel, NPR Books We Love
Somewhere Beyond the Sea
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The Book of Love
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The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
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The Butcher of the Forest
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
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The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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The City in Glass
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The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
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The Familiar
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The Husbands
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The Last Hour Between Worlds
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The Ministry of Time
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The Woods All Black
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This Great Hemisphere
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Those Beyond the Wall
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You Dreamed of Empires
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