Books like Downbelow Station
30 science fiction books to read after Downbelow Station, by Cherryh, C. J., the closest match first.
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1. Merchanter's Luck
by Cherryh, C. J.
- Same series
- Same author
Merchanter's Luck is a C. J. Cherryh novel of the Alliance-Union universe, about a young trader on a small merchant ship and the woman from a great trading family who...
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2. Rimrunners
by Cherryh, C. J.
- Same series
- Same author
RIMRUNNERS In space the line between patriot and pirate is as thin as a laser. And a lethal battle for power can be as near as your starship’s next deck...
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3. Heavy Time
by Cherryh, C. J.
- Same series
- Same author
C. J. Cherryh's Heavy Time follows asteroid-belt miners through a salvage job that goes wrong, a trial and a conspiracy, in her Company Wars sequence.
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4. Hellburner
by Cherryh, C. J.
- Same series
- Same author
A sequel to Heavy Time, Hellburner is a C. J. Cherryh novel of a deadly new class of warship and the young pilots who must fly it in the Alliance-Union...
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5. Tripoint
by Cherryh, C. J.
- Same series
- Same author
Tripoint is a C. J. Cherryh novel in the Alliance-Union universe, about Marie Hawkins, a merchanter woman who wants revenge on the pirate who attacked her ship.
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6. Finity's End
by Cherryh, C. J.
- Same series
- Same author
Life in space starring Fletcher Neihart, 17, a youth who becomes an apprentice crewman on his family's merchant spaceship. He does not like space, but he has no choice and...
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7. The Pride Of Chanur
by Cherryh, C. J.
- Same author
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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8. Beggars In Spain
by Nancy Kress
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How much more could you do if you didn't have to sleep? That's the simple question that starts this superb trilogy.In this near future world, a philosophy that is becoming...
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9. Synners
by Pat Cadigan
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Synners are jacked-in outlaws, hooked on the astonishing worlds of virtual space as an escape from the grim, depressing industrial reality around them. But, hot-wired in to cyberspace, they have...
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10. Use Of Weapons
by Iain M. Banks
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Features a Utopian society (culture) that's post scarcity, controlled by benevolent A. I.'s who act for the good of the society. When Culture encounters less enlightened societies, the fun begins.
Iain Banks burst onto the literary scene with his controversial first novel, The Wasp Factory, the violent story of a girl who had been brought up as an emasculated boy....
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11. Cyteen
by Cherryh, C. J.
- Same author
C.J. Cherryh is one of the most consistently reliable authors of convincing, richly-detailed stories of life in space. And her fiction often is about space, set aboard spaceships and space...
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12. Timescape (1981)
by Benford, Gregory
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A novel about ecological issues and scientific experiments that address current events at the time of writing.
In 1998 an ecological catastrophe is poisoning the oceans and the atmosphere. A group of scientists in Cambridge try to send a message back in time using tachyons, particles that...
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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. Lanark
by Alasdair Gray
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Back in the 1950s, a young Alasdair Gray entered a short story in a competition. It came second. That story was part of what would become, nearly 30 years later,...
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21. Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
by Russell Hoban
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Hoban first made his name with books for children, such as the wonderful The Mouse and His Child. When he turned to writing novels for adults, although they seemed to...
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22. Tau Zero
by Anderson, Poul
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Tempted as we were to place this at number one, it's at number three of our top 25 hard science fiction books because this isn't just hard science fiction, it's...
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23. King David's Spaceship
by Jerry Pournelle
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Jerry Pournelle was one of the best-known writers of Military Science Fiction of the 1970s. His stories, both solo and with co-authors like Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, almost all...
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24. Texas-israeli War: 1999
by Howard Waldrop
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This title alone should draw you in, doesn’t it? Especially if you remember that this was a novel written in the 1970s, Jake Saunders and Howard Waldrop’s story of an...
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25. Forever Peace (1999)
by Haldeman, Joe
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In 2048, soldiers fight a war through remote-controlled robot bodies, and Julian Class, a physicist and a mechanic, operates one through a link wired into his skull. When his platoon...
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26. Into The Storm
by Taylor Anderson
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Two World War I destroyers are still in use during World War II, and being chased by the Japanese warship Amagi. This is bad news, made worse by the squall...
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27. Rainbows End
by Vernor Vinge
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Rainbows End, for all it sounds like the title of a children's fantasy book, is some incredibly relevant sci fi. Sitting at number eight on our top 25 hard science...
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28. Everyone In Silico
by Jim Munroe
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Sticking with cyberpunk, but moving beyond it, we come to Everyone in Silico. Written in 2002, it rose to fame because it's author invoiced the companies mentioned for product placement...
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29. Zoo City
by Lauren Beukes
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One of the most exciting things about science fiction in the new century is that the traditional white, male, Anglo-American voice is being displaced. Wonderful new work is starting to...
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30. Life After Life: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
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Search the sf award shortlists for 2013 and you will look in vain for this novel. It wasn't even submitted for any of the juried awards. Yet it is arguably...
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