Books like Babylon's Ashes
27 science fiction books to read after Babylon's Ashes, by James S.a. Corey, the closest match first.
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The Expanse book 5
1. Nemesis Games
by James S.a. Corey
- Same series
- Same author
The crew of the Rocinante scatter to deal with trouble at home just as the solar system begins to come apart. A Belter faction strikes at Earth and the inner...
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The Expanse book 9
2. Leviathan Falls
by James S.a. Corey
- Same series
- Same author
The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the...
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The Expanse book 8
3. Tiamat's Wrath
by James S.a. Corey
- Same series
- Same author
Tiamat's Wrath is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and the eighth book in their series The Expanse....
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The Expanse book 7
4. Persepolis Rising
by James S.a. Corey
- Same series
- Same author
The seventh book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Persepolis Rising finds an old enemy returning home with more power and technology than anyone thought possible, and the crew of...
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The Expanse book 1 Start here
5. Leviathan Wakes
by James S.a. Corey
- Same series
- Same author
Showing that new space opera is just as relevant as more traditional space opera, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, writing under the pen-name James S.A. Corey, offer a 2011 sci-fi...
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The Expanse book 2
6. Caliban's War
by James S.a. Corey
- Same series
- Same author
For a new space opera series in the tradition of some of the older space opera works, give James Cory's The Expanse series a read. It features a heavy Synthetic Biology concept with an engineered alien life form presenting a huge threat to mankind.
The second book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden...
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The Expanse book 3
7. Abaddon's Gate
by James S.a. Corey
- Same series
- Same author
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a...
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The Expanse book 4
8. Cibola Burn
by James S.a. Corey
- Same series
- Same author
"The gates have opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity's home planets....
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The Broken Earth book 3
9. The Stone Sky
by Jemisin, N. K.
- On the same lists
Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel 2018Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2018 The shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling...
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Machineries Of Empire book 2
10. Raven Stratagem
by Yoon Ha Lee
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The Hexarchate, an empire whose weapons depend on its calendar, is under attack from outside, and the undead tactician Shuos Jedao has taken command of its fleet. Whether he is...
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11. Six Wakes
by Mur Lafferty
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"A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again. It was not common to awaken...
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The Interdependency book 1 Start here
12. The Collapsing Empire
by John Scalzi
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Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars....
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13. Provenance
by Leckie, Ann
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A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people:...
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14. New York 2140
by Robinson, Kim Stanley
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It is 2140.The waters rose, submerging New York City.But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever.Every street became a canal....
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15. Borne
by Vandermeer, Jeff
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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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16. American War
by Omar El Akkad
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"An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle--a story that asks what might happen if America...
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17. Dreams Before the Start of Time
by Anne Charnock
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Anne Charnock imagines the changes in how people have children across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in the story of a woman and her family across generations. The reproductive technologies...
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18. Autonomous
by Annalee Newitz
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When anything can be owned, how can we be freeEarth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood,...
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19. Sea of Rust
by C. Robert Cargill
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"A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film...
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20. Spaceman of Bohemia
by Jaroslav Kalfar
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"When Jakub Procha is sent into space to examine a cosmic dust cloud covering Venus, it may be a solo suicide mission. Dreaming of becoming a national hero and desperate...
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21. Gather the Daughters
by Jennie Melamed
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On an isolated island, the children of a small community live under strict rules set by their parents, who have told them that the world beyond is poisoned. Every year...
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22. Artemis
by Weir, Andy
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JASMINE BASHARA never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity's first...
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23. Waking Gods
by Neuvel, Sylvain
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"26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant...
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Binti book 2
24. Home
by Okorafor, Nnedi
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Binti, a young woman of the Himba people, has left Earth for the university on another world and survived a war. In the second novella she returns home to her...
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25. All Our Wrong Todays
by Elan Mastai
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Tom Barren lives in a utopian version of 2016 with flying cars and jetpacks, thanks to his father's invention of time travel. When he travels back to 1965 and a...
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The Murderbot Diaries book 1 Start here
26. All Systems Red
by Wells, Martha
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The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. It calls itself Murderbot, and...
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27. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
by Stephenson, Neal
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Tristan Lyons hires Melisande Stokes, a Harvard linguist, to translate historic texts for a classified government agency, the Department of Diachronic Operations. Her translations point to a past in which...
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