Books like Doomsday Book (1993)
30 science fiction books to read after Doomsday Book (1993), by Willis, Connie, the closest match first.
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Oxford Time Travel book 2
1. Blackout/all Clear (2011)
by Willis, Connie
- Same series
- Same author
BLackout / All Clear by Connie Willis won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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2. Fire Watch
by Willis, Connie
- Same series
- 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
3. To Say Nothing Of The Dog
by Willis, Connie
- Same series
- 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
4. Blackout
by Willis, Connie
- Same series
- 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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5. Passage
by Willis, Connie
- Same author
- On the same lists
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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6. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
by Verne, Jules
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The classic example.
When Hugo Gernsback wanted to define "scientifiction" in the very first issue of Amazing, he called it the "Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells type of story". It puts...
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Storyteller book 2
7. Cry Of The Wind
by Sue Harrison
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We all know what happens when aliens invade: there's a big fight and then the aliens are driven off, or humanity is reduced to servitude. Well, no. We've got enough...
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8. Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide To David Brin's Uplift Universe
by Brin, David
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When the black monolith appears in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, A Space Odyssey, or the demons in Childhood's End, that is Uplift. But what if humanity has reached into space...
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9. Dune Chronicles
by Herbert, Frank
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What a crazy ass ride this series is. Still wildly popular and selling off the shelves after nearly 50 years, the Dune series has spawned a movie, computer games, board...
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Revelation Space book 1 Start here
10. Revelation Space
by Alastair Reynolds
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A complex novel that postulates many different lifeforms who struggle against ancient, machine-like intelligences seeking to destroy all new organic life.
Throughout its history, one of the strongest and most interesting aspects of science fiction has been its use in satire. And this is just about the most stunning of contemporary...
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Mars Trilogy book 1 Start here
11. Red Mars (1994)
by Robinson, Kim Stanley
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A mission is launched to terraform Mars in this scientific epic.
In 2026, a hundred colonists set off on the first long voyage to Mars. Among them are John Boone, the first man to walk on the planet, and his rival...
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12. Crosstalk
by Willis, Connie
- Same author
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...
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13. Lilith's Brood
by Butler, Octavia E.
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Science fiction isnât always meant to be comfortable or easy reading. Quite the opposite, any literature so based on ideas must challenge the reader, make them think differently (if only...
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14. Ender's Game (1986)
by Card, Orson Scott
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The first in a famous series that seems to become more literary as its characters age. Follows a child prodigy and in the process makes the reader think about war, the means to war, and even loneliness.
Earth has survived two invasions by an insect-like alien race, and the International Fleet is training the most gifted children to lead the next defence. Six-year-old Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is...
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15. The Fall Of Hyperion
by Simmons, Dan
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A more recent example of a winning space opera series is the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. The series contains four novels and several short stories, and they've been wildly successful with fans and critics alike. In 1990 the first novel in the series, Hyperion, won both the Hugo and Locus Awards.
This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.
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16. Woken Furies
by Morgan, Richard K.
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Mixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Richard K. Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as...
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Gap book 1 Start here
17. The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story
by Donaldson, Stephen R.
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Angus Thermopyle is a vicious but unsuccessful pirate who walks in with a beautiful woman on his arm. She is Morn Hyland, a police officer until she met him. His...
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18. Old Man’s War Series
by John Scalzi
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Got popularity? I don't know if you can find a more popular science fiction writer right now. He's socially astute, spot on with his commentary and is nearly too cool...
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19. Consider Phlebas
by Iain M. Banks
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A sprawling series with a well developed society complete with social norms, language, biology, artificial intelligences, and the list goes on.
Banks himself once described the plot of Consider Phlebas as: "a shipwrecked sailor falls in with a gang of pirates and goes in search of buried treasure." And that's precisely...
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20. The Aleutian Trilogy
by Gwyneth Jones
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Gwyneth Jones's first novel for adults, Divine Endurance, set in a richly imagined South East Asia, marked the arrival of a novelist intent on using science fiction to explore the...
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21. The Affirmation
by Priest, Christopher
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In contemporary Britain, a young man called Peter Sinclair loses his job and his girlfriend, and retreats to a remote cottage where he sets out to write his life story....
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22. The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
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Few debut novels since Neuromancer have had the impact that Mary Doria Russell achieved with The Sparrow. After this novel and its sequel, Children of God, she turned to writing...
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23. The Time Ships
by Stephen Baxter
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1995 was the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, and in celebration Stephen Baxter produced one of the best novels in his long and...
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24. Zone Of Thought
by Vernor Vinge
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Ever bought some electronic thing and two days later discovered it was already obsolete? Sucks. This whole idea about broken things is defined by the concept of The Singularity --...
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25. The Star Fraction
by Ken Macleod
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Ken MacLeod was a lifelong friend of Iain Banks, and their interest in science fiction was parallel, though MacLeod's interest in Trotskyist politics gave his work a harder political edge...
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26. The Child Garden
by Geoff Ryman
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Imagine a London that has become semi-tropical, where people photosynthesise, where cancer has been cured but the human lifespan has been cut in half. Imagine a place where viruses are...
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27. Ender Series
by Card, Orson Scott
- On the same lists
Ever read a book that is good in spite of its author's controversial reputation? Card has landed himself in a lot of hot water for his political commentary, primarily driven...
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28. The Uplift Saga
by Brin, David
- On the same lists
A series with a complex universe where politics can decide the fate of an entire race. Feudalism, bureaucracy, indentureship, international relations, ecology, there is a lot happening in this universe.
No science fiction list would be complete without the inclusion of a science fiction mystery that morphs into an action adventure. Published in 1987 Startide Rising won the Hugo, Nebula...
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29. The Pride Of Chanur
by Cherryh, C. J.
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Starts with Downbelow Station. The aliens are coming. The aliens are coming! Until you read Cherryh you haven't really read good aliens. She's got this peculiar gift for summoning aliens...
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30. Dying Inside
by Silverberg, Robert
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Despite his credentials championing hard, rational science fiction, John W. Campbell was a fervent believer in psi powers. Perhaps because of that, whenever telepathy appeared in science fiction, as in...
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