There and Back Again

10 best books like There and Back Again (Pat Murphy): Chilling Effect, On a Red Station, Drifting, The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl, The Secret Commonwealth, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 69, The Last Conversation, Randomize, Emergency Skin, You Have Arrived at Your Destination, Part-Time Gods

Chilling Effect

Author	Valerie Valdes
ISBN	0062877232

A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.

Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena...

On a Red Station, Drifting

Author	Aliette de Bodard
ISBN	0956392458

For generations Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of a human womb, the station’s artificial intelligence has offered guidance and protection to its human relatives.

But war has come to the Dai Viet Empire. Prosper’s brightest minds have...

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl

Author	Theodora Goss
ISBN	1534427872

Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice—and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the electrifying conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Nebula Award finalist and Locus Award winner The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter.

Life’s always an adventure for the Athena...

The Secret Commonwealth

Author	Philip Pullman
ISBN	1448194512

It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.

It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end...

Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 69

Author

Neil Clarke

FICTION
"Immersion" by Aliette de Bodard
"If The Mountain Comes" by An Owomoyela
"You Were She Who Abode" by E. Catherine Tobler

NON-FICTION
"Energizing Futures: How SF Fuels Itself" by Stephen Gaskell
"Neither the Billionaire nor the Tramp: Economics in Speculative...

The Last Conversation

Author

Paul Tremblay

What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.

Imagine you’ve woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where...

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...

Part-Time Gods

Author

Rachel Aaron

Life in the magical mess of the Detroit Free Zone is never easy. When you’re laboring under the curse of a certain prideful, overbearing dragon, it can be down right impossible.

My name is Opal Yong-ae, and I’m a Cleaner. At least, I used to be. Thanks to the supernatural bad luck that turns...

Tether

Author

Jeremy Robinson

In the middle of the night, an explosion rocks Cambridge, Massachusetts and wakes Saul Signalman from bed. Blue, ethereal light pulses into the sky. A FaceTime call pulls him away from the view. It’s his wife, consumed in light, bidding him farewell. And then—the call ends. The explosion of light...