Books like Absolution
24 science fiction books to read after Absolution, by Vandermeer, Jeff, the closest match first.
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1. The Southern Reach Trilogy
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same series
- Same author
The three complete novels that make up this trilogy, Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance, were all first published during 2014. Brought together, they make for a fascinating mixture of science fiction...
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Southern Reach book 2
2. Authority
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same series
- Same author
For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X, a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, the...
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Southern Reach book 3
3. Acceptance
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same series
- Same author
From the publisher--- It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area...
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4. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance Hardcover November 18, 2014
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same series
- Same author
Trilogies have more or less become the default form of science fiction these days. But even so, producing all three volumes of a trilogy in a year is not exactly...
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5. The Ministry of Time
by Kaliane Bradley
- On the same lists
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry...
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6. Annie Bot
by Sierra Greer
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Annie is the perfect girlfriend. She has dinner ready for Doug every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and caters to his every sexual whim. Maybe her cleaning...
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7. Service Model
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
- On the same lists
Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a...
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8. Alien Clay
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did...
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9. Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory
by Yaroslav Barsukov
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Minister Shea Ashcroft refuses a queen's order to gas a crowd of protesters and is banished to the border to oversee the largest defensive tower ever built. The tower uses...
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10. The Mercy of Gods
by James S.a. Corey
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A spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself.How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost...
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11. Orbital
by Samantha Harvey
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A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space....
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12. Extremophile
by Ian Green
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London in 2043 is wrecked by climate collapse, and Charlie and Parker are punk biohackers who make bio-enhancements for criminals and activists. When extremist Green activists hire them for jobs...
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13. Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock
by Maud Woolf
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Lulabelle Rock was a washed-up actress, and the thirteenth clone made of her has one job: to find and kill the twelve before her. The mission goes wrong when the...
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14. Private Rites
by Julia Armfield
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Three estranged sisters, Isla, Irene and Agnes, return to the glass house they grew up in when their father, a cruel and revered architect, dies. Rain has fallen for so...
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15. The Family Experiment
by John Marrs
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Some families are virtually perfect…The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people...
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16. The Stardust Grail
by Yume Kitasei
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Maya, a retired art thief who once returned looted artefacts to their home worlds, is asked by an old friend for one last job: to find the Stardust Grail, which...
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17. Extinction
by Douglas Preston
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At the Erebus Resort in the Colorado Rockies, scientists have revived Ice Age animals such as woolly mammoths and giant deer, with their aggression genes muted. When honeymooners are attacked...
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18. Moon of the Turning Leaves
by Waubgeshig Rice
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More than a decade after the collapse of the modern world, the Anishinaabe community of Shki-dnakiiwin is running low on food. Evan Whitesky volunteers to lead a small group, including...
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19. The Other Valley
by Scott Alexander Howard
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Odile Ozanne lives in a valley that is one of many identical, repeating ones. The neighbouring valley is twenty years in the future and the other twenty years in the...
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20. Red Side Story
by Fforde, Jasper
- On the same lists
A surreal story (Does Jasper write any others?) that is a sequel to Shades of Grey. Edward Russet battles to make sense of his World with an impending hearing before...
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21. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
by Jason Pargin
- On the same lists
Abbott Coburn, 26, lives with his father and finds comfort online. A strangely dressed woman pays him a great deal to drive her and a mysterious black box from California...
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22. Borne
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same author
In a ruined city, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small creature named "Borne" tangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic bear made by a biotech firm. She knows her...
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23. Annihilation
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same author
An expedition enters the strange, shifting Area X and does not come back the same, a weird-fiction Nebula winner.
Annihilation won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel. It beat out the following nominees to win:The Goblin Emperor Trial by Fire Ancillary Sword The Three-Body Problem Coming Home
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24. Steampunk
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same author
An anthology of Steampunk stories that highlight Steampunk's imaginative side, featuring writers such as Neal Stephenson, Michael Chabon, James Baylock, Michael Moorcock, and Joe R. Lansdale.
An anthology of Steampunk stories that highlight Steampunk's imaginative side, featuring writers such as Neal Stephenson, Michael Chabon, James Baylock, Michael Moorcock, and Joe R. Lansdale.
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