Books like A Closed and Common Orbit
24 science fiction books to read after A Closed and Common Orbit, by Becky Chambers, the closest match first.
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Wayfarers book 4
1. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
by Becky Chambers
- Same series
- Same author
With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds,...
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Wayfarers book 3
2. Record of a Spaceborn Few
by Becky Chambers
- Same series
- Same author
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen. Humanity has finally been accepted into...
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Wayfarers book 1 Start here
3. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
by Becky Chambers
- Same series
- Same author
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a...
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4. A Murder in Time
by Julie McElwain
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Kendra Donovan is an FBI profiler who, while chasing a killer, is thrown back to 1815 England. There she has to investigate a murder in a country house without the...
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5. Morningstar
by Brown, Pierce
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow...
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Three Body Series book 3
6. Death's End
by Liu, Cixin
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Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold... Half a...
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Themis Files book 1 Start here
7. Sleeping Giants
by Neuvel, Sylvain
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A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a...
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The Broken Earth book 2
8. The Obelisk Gate
by Jemisin, N. K.
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"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season Continuing the trilogy that began with the award-winning The Fifth Season Winner of the Hugo Award Shortlisted for the...
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Vorkosigan Saga book 18
9. Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
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The last volume of Bujold's award winning Vorkosigan saga, Cordelia needs to find a new direction for her life.
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10. All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders
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An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further complicate things, each of the groups’ most promising followers (Patricia,...
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Terra Ignota book 1 Start here
11. Too Like the Lightning
by Ada Palmer
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"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a...
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12. The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she...
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13. Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch
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One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an...
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14. After Atlas
by Emma Newman
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"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems... Govcorp...
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15. Central Station
by Tidhar, Lavie
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A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally...
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16. Occupy Me
by Tricia Sullivan
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Pearl is an angel with wings and no clear memory of her origins, who works as a flight attendant and for a Resistance that tries to improve the world through...
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17. Everfair
by Nisi Shawl
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An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a...
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The Long Earth book 5
18. The Long Cosmos
by Pratchett, Terry
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The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine....
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19. The Last One
by Alexandra Oliva
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A woman known as Zoo joins a twelve-person reality show, In the Dark, that sends contestants into the woods for a million-dollar prize. While they are out of contact, something...
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20. Underground Airlines
by Ben H. Winters
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"It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young...
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21. Crosstalk
by Willis, Connie
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Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk-- a genre-bending novel that pushes...
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Monk & Robot book 1 Start here
22. A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Becky Chambers
- Same author
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries...
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23. To Be Taught, If Fortunate
by Becky Chambers
- Same author
At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using...
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Machineries Of Empire book 1 Start here
24. Ninefox Gambit
by Yoon Ha Lee
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Yoon Ha Lee is a name that science fiction fans will want to keep in mind for decades to come. Lee’s debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, is exactly the kind of...
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