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20 science fiction books to read after All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders, the closest match first.

  1. A Murder in Time

    1. A Murder in Time

    by Julie McElwain

    • On the same lists

    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...

  2. Morningstar

    2. 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...

  3. Death's End

    Three Body Series book 3

    3. Death's End

    by Liu, Cixin

    • On the same lists

    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...

  4. Sleeping Giants

    Themis Files book 1 Start here

    4. 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...

  5. The Obelisk Gate

    The Broken Earth book 2

    5. The Obelisk Gate

    by Jemisin, N. K.

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 2017

    "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...

  6. Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen

    Vorkosigan Saga book 18

    6. 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.

  7. A Closed and Common Orbit

    Wayfarers book 2

    7. A Closed and Common Orbit

    by Becky Chambers

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    Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very human emotions. But when her ship was badly damaged, Lovelace...

  8. Too Like the Lightning

    Terra Ignota book 1 Start here

    8. Too Like the Lightning

    by Ada Palmer

    • On the same lists

    "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...

  9. The Underground Railroad

    9. 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...

  10. Dark Matter

    10. Dark Matter

    by Blake Crouch

    • On the same lists

    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...

  11. After Atlas

    11. After Atlas

    by Emma Newman

    • On the same lists

    "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...

  12. Central Station

    12. 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...

  13. Occupy Me (cover not available)

    13. 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...

  14. Everfair

    14. Everfair

    by Nisi Shawl

    • On the same lists

    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...

  15. The Long Cosmos

    The Long Earth book 5

    15. The Long Cosmos

    by Pratchett, Terry

    • On the same lists

    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....

  16. The Last One

    16. The Last One

    by Alexandra Oliva

    • On the same lists

    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...

  17. Underground Airlines

    17. 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...

  18. Crosstalk

    18. Crosstalk

    by Willis, Connie

    • On the same lists

    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...

  19. The City in the Middle of the Night

    19. The City in the Middle of the Night

    by Charlie Jane Anders

    • Same author

    Would you give up everything to change the world?Humanity clings to life on January – a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine...

  20. Ninefox Gambit

    Machineries Of Empire book 1 Start here

    20. 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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