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Readers who enjoyed Other Worlds Than These by John Joseph Adams, Stephen Baxter, Vandana Singh, Paul Melko, Kelly Link, Ian McDonald, Simon McCaffery, E. Catherine Tobler, Alastair Reynolds, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, David Barr Kirtley, Mercurio D. Rivera, Jeff VanderMeer, George R.R. Martin, Carrie Vaughn, Tim Pratt, Robert Reed, Catherynne M. Valente, Yoon Ha Lee, Orson Scott Card, Christie Yant, Seanan McGuire, Robert Silverberg, Ross E. Lockhart, Lev Grossman, Michael Swanwick, Gregory Benford, William Alexander, Pat Cadigan, Joyce Carol Oates & John R. Fultz also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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The Paradox by Charlie Fletcher
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSOMETIMES YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR – SOMETIMES IT LOOKS BACKThose who belong to the secret society called the Oversight know many things. They know cold iron will hold back the beasts in the darkness. They know it is dangerous to stand between two mirrors. And they know that, despite their dwindling numbers, it remains their duty to protect humanity from the supernatural. And vice versa...Categorized as:
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Dry Water by Eric S. Nylund
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere is water pooled deep within the earth--a forbidden spring that flows through the history of humankind.There is a reborn ghost town in New Mexico where real phantoms congregate--along with artists, shamans, witches. . .and all manner of evil.Lightning has chased Larry Ngitis to this place where he will be called upon to do the impossible...Categorized as:
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Ink by Hal Duncan
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's twenty years since the Evenfall swept across the Vellum and the bitmites took reality apart, twenty years since Phreedom Messenger disappeared into the wilderness and Seamus Finnan was imprisoned in his own past. Twenty years of chaos but the Dukes, the remnants of the Covenant, still cling to power in their enclaves of order in the bitmite-devastated wilderness . .Categorized as:
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Dreamseeker by C.S. Friedman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Jessica Drake learned that her DNA didn’t match that of her parents, she had no idea that the search for her heritage would put her family’s lives in danger, or force her to cross into another world...Categorized as:
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The Dragon in the Sword by Michael Moorcock
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe third novel in the History of John Daker, The Eternal Champion...Categorized as:
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Dying Bites by D.D. Barant
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHer job description is the “tracking and apprehension of mentally-fractured killers.” What this really means in FBI profiler Jace Valchek’s brave new world—one in which only one percent of the population is human—is that a woman’s work is never done. And real is getting stranger every day…Jace has been ripped from her reality by David Cassius, the vampire head of the NSA...Categorized as:
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UR by Stephen King, Holter Graham
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWesley Smith buys an Amazon Kindle to keep his mind off his recent nasty breakup, but he finds that his version is no ordinary e-reading device. Smith's Kindle has a special Ur option, which reveals the future and all the works his favorite authors have written in parallel dimensions... -
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Vellum by Hal Duncan
Rated: 3.30 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a fecund imagination that defies description. VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURSIt's 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself...Categorized as:
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Manifest Destiny Vol. 3 by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeep in America's heartland, Lewis & Clark's expedition discovers a civilization unlike any they—or anyone else on Earth—has encountered. An encounter that will push their men to the brink of mutiny, and redefines the relationship between man and monster, predator and prey...Categorized as:
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![Manifest Destiny, Vol. 2: Amphibia & Insecta by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni]()
Manifest Destiny, Vol. 2: Amphibia & Insecta by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsLewis, Clark and the surviving members of their expedition continue westward across America, only to learn there is nowhere to run on a river.Collects MANIFEST DESTINY #7-12...Categorized as:
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Manifest Destiny Vol. 4 by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLewis & Clark didn’t lead the first expedition west...nor were they the first to encounter the BIGGEST mammal in all the land: SASQUATCH! Many have claimed to have seen this legendary creature..Categorized as:
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Manifest Destiny, Vol. 5: Mnemophobia & Chronophobia by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs winter begins, Lewis & Clark hunker the Corp of Discovery down in their new fort on the very frontier of civilization. All is calm... until old enemies emerge from the fog... and the real nightmare begins. Collects MANIFEST DESTINY #25-30...Categorized as:
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Manifest Destiny Vol. 6: Fortis & Invisiblia by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf Meriwether Lewis hopes to reach the Pacific coast, he must learn an important lesson: Don’t listen to the voices in your head...Categorized as:
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Manifest Destiny, Vol. 1: Flora & Fauna by Chris Dingess, Owen Gieni
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1804, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark set out on an expedition to explore the uncharted American frontier. This is the story of the monsters they discovered lurking in the wilds...Collects MANIFEST DESTINY #1-6... -
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InterWorld by Neil Gaiman, Michael Reaves
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsWhen Newbery Medal winner Neil Gaiman and Emmy Award winner Michael Reaves teamed up, they created the bestselling YA novel InterWorld. InterWorld tells the story of Joey Harker, a very average kid who discovers that his world is only one of a trillion alternate earths. Some of these earths are ruled by magic. Some are ruled by science. All are at war...Categorized as:
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