The President's Brain is Missing

10 best books like The President's Brain is Missing (John Scalzi): The Future of Another Timeline, A Dead Djinn in Cairo, Vessel, Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic, Randomize, Emergency Skin, You Have Arrived at Your Destination, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms, Articulated Restraint, Atmosphaera Incognita

The Future of Another Timeline

Author	Annalee Newitz
ISBN	0765392127

From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.

1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat,...

A Dead Djinn in Cairo

Author	P. Djèlí Clark
ISBN	0765389444

Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine. What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads...

Vessel

Author	Lisa A. Nichols
ISBN	1501168770

An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her version of what happened in space the truth? Or is there more to the story…. A tense, psychological thriller perfect for fans of Dark Matter and The Martian.

After Catherine Wells’s ship experiences...

Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic

Author

Nick Carr

Listening length: 1 hour, 55 minutes

A teenage genius with a big imagination, Wally just moved to Savannah, GA from Maine with his mom, who adopted Wally when he was an infant. In this charming and sweet solo show, Wally investigates a hiccup in the spacetime fabric of his neighborhood which...

Randomize

Author

Andy Weir

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number...

Emergency Skin

Author

N.K. Jemisin

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award–winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy.

An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others...

You Have Arrived at Your Destination

Author

Amor Towles

Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow.

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next...

Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

Author	John Hodgman
ISBN	0525561102

A hilarious and honest new book in which John Hodgman, New York Times bestselling author of Vacationland, sets out to explore the strange work-land of being a somewhat famous person

After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent, John Hodgman decided to try his own...

Articulated Restraint

Author	Mary Robinette Kowal
ISBN	1250241308

3.5 stars for this SF short story, free online here at Tor.com. Review first posted here on Fantasy Literature:

Ruby Donaldson, an astronaut stationed on the Neutral Buoyancy Lab or NBL, is nursing a severely sprained ankle, which she twisted while practicing a Charleston Flip in a dance rehearsal,...

Atmosphaera Incognita

Author	Neal Stephenson
ISBN	1596069198

For more than two decades, Neal Stephenson has been the reigning master of the epic fictional narrative. His vast, intellectually rigorous books have ranged in setting from the distant past (The Baroque Cycle) to the modern era (Reamde) to the remote future (Anathem, Seveneves). But when Stephenson...

Hello, Moto

Author	Nnedi Okorafor
ISBN	1466803037

I don't understand the ending. Maybe someone could explain to me, in spoiler tag if necessary.

I give two star now for great beginning, good middle part, AND fun innovative link into audio Hello, Moto ringtone when the cellphones were ringing in the story.

(view spoiler)[ I don't understand...