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25 science fiction books to read after Dark Age, by Brown, Pierce, the closest match first.

  1. Morningstar

    1. Morningstar

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    #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...

  2. Golden Son

    2. Golden Son

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by...

  3. Iron Gold

    3. Iron Gold

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the epic next chapter of the Red Rising Saga, the #1 bestselling author of Morning Star pushes the boundaries of one of the boldest...

  4. Light Bringer

    Red Rising Trilogy book 6

    4. Light Bringer

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of...

  5. Red Rising (not Magic, But Hunger Games Survival Meets School Setting With Some Fantasy Elements)

    5. Red Rising (not Magic, But Hunger Games Survival Meets School Setting With Some Fantasy Elements)

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Books in this sub-genre focus almost entirely on magic, but Red Rising stands in stark contrast to that. Part dystopia, part sci-fi fantasy, Red Risingfocuses on the story of a...

  6. Morning Star

    6. Morning Star

    by Brown, Pierce

    • Same series
    • Same author

    The final volume in Pierce Brown's mega popular Red Rising trilogy. This book came out February 2016; it managed to impress us.So far, this has been our favorite read of...

  7. Gideon the Ninth

    The Locked Tomb book 1 Start here

    7. Gideon the Ninth

    by Muir, Tamsyn

    • On the same lists

    "The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system...

  8. A Memory Called Empire

    Teixcalaan book 1 Start here

    8. A Memory Called Empire

    by Arkady Martine

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 2020

    Won the 2020 Hugo for Best Novel. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is posted far from her mining station home, to the Empire's glorious capital. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her...

  9. The City in the Middle of the Night

    9. The City in the Middle of the Night

    by Charlie Jane Anders

    • On the same lists

    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...

  10. The Light Brigade

    10. The Light Brigade

    by Hurley, Kameron

    • On the same lists

    From the Hugo Award­­–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order...

  11. A Song for a New Day

    11. A Song for a New Day

    by Sarah Pinsker

    • On the same lists
    Nebula winner 2019

    In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was...

  12. The Old Drift

    12. The Old Drift

    by Namwali Serpell

    • On the same lists

    On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story...

  13. Recursion

    13. Recursion

    by Blake Crouch

    • On the same lists

    Memory makes reality.That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its...

  14. This Is How You Lose the Time War

    14. This Is How You Lose the Time War

    by El-Mohtar, Amal

    • On the same lists

    Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar...

  15. The Deep

    15. The Deep

    by Rivers Solomon

    • On the same lists

    Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be...

  16. Exhalation

    16. Exhalation

    by Ted Chiang

    • On the same lists

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the...

  17. Machines Like Me

    17. Machines Like Me

    by Ian McEwan

    • On the same lists

    Machines Like Me is the 15th novel by the English author Ian McEwan. The novel published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape.The novel is set in the 1980s in an alternative...

  18. Cage of Souls

    18. Cage of Souls

    by Tchaikovsky, Adrian

    • On the same lists

    Stefan Advani is a rebel, outlaw and survivor, and his account takes him across the western deserts, down a river into a jungle prison and finally into underground caverns. The...

  19. The Last Astronaut

    19. The Last Astronaut

    by David Wellington

    • On the same lists

    In 2055 NASA has no astronaut corps left, so when a huge object from another star system enters the solar system and ignores every message sent to it, the agency...

  20. Marque of Caine

    Caine Riordan book 4

    20. Marque of Caine

    by Charles E. Gannon

    • On the same lists

    "It's been two years since Caine Riordan was relieved of his command for following both his orders and his conscience. Now he's finally received the message he's been waiting for:...

  21. Tiamat's Wrath

    The Expanse book 8

    21. Tiamat's Wrath

    by James S.a. Corey

    • On the same lists

    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....

  22. Wanderers

    22. Wanderers

    by Wendig, Chuck

    • On the same lists

    A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and...

  23. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

    23. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

    by Becky Chambers

    • On the same lists

    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...

  24. The Future of Another Timeline

    24. The Future of Another Timeline

    by Annalee Newitz

    • On the same lists

    "1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends...

  25. Children of Memory

    Children Of Time book 3

    25. Children of Memory

    by Tchaikovsky, Adrian

    • On the same lists

    Sequel to Children of Ruin.On Imir, Captain Holt founded a hopeful new colony on an empty world. But generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and...

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