Books like Crosstalk
25 science fiction books to read after Crosstalk, by Willis, Connie, the closest match first.
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1. 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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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...
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Three Body Series book 3
3. 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
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...
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The Broken Earth book 2
5. 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
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.
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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...
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8. 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
9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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
16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. Passage
by Willis, Connie
- Same author
Immortality, cryogenics, uploading the mind to an AI, extended lifespans, time and again science fiction revolves around the issue of how to avoid death. In this novel, which won the...
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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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Oxford Time Travel book 2
21. Blackout/all Clear (2011)
by Willis, Connie
- Same author
BLackout / All Clear by Connie Willis won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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Oxford Time Travel book 1 Start here
22. Doomsday Book (1993)
by Willis, Connie
- Same author
In 2054, Oxford historians send students back in time to study the past. Kivrin Engle, a young historian, is sent to the English countryside in 1320. But a technician falls...
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23. Fire Watch
by Willis, Connie
- Same author
Winner of six Nebula and five Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time. Her startling and powerful works have redefined the...
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Oxford Time Travel book 2
24. To Say Nothing Of The Dog
by Willis, Connie
- Same author
This is the first of Willisâ time traveling historians. Ned Henry is looking for something called the bishopâs bird stump in the 1940s, despite the fact that he lives in...
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Oxford Time Travel book 3
25. Blackout
by Willis, Connie
- Same author
In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds--great and small--of ordinary...
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