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25 science fiction books to read after Echopraxia, by Peter Watts, the closest match first.

  1. Blindsight

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    1. Blindsight

    by Peter Watts

    • Same series
    • Same author

    A group of freaks (who are also astronauts) are sent on a one way mission to investigate a mysterious object that appears at the edge of human space. Atmospheric and creepy.

    This novel has been hailed as one of the best hard sf stories written this century. It's an awesome novel, packed with invention and new ideas and challenges to the...

  2. The Race

    2. The Race

    by Nina Allan

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    For the last few years, Nina Allan has been attracting a lot of attention and award nominations for the haunting quality of her short stories. Now she brings that same...

  3. The Abyss Beyond Dreams

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    3. The Abyss Beyond Dreams

    by Hamilton, Peter F.

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    A self-proclaimed prophet is haunted by visions of a lost civilisation, and the Commonwealth's founder, Nigel Sheldon, goes to find out whether they come from the Void, the vast region...

  4. 2015: The Bone Clocks

    4. 2015: The Bone Clocks

    by Mitchell, David

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    The story starts in 1984, introducing us to a 15-year-old girl from England named Holly. The book shares the significant moments in Holly's life as she intersects with various characters,...

  5. Wolves

    5. Wolves

    by Simon Ings

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    It*s the near future; the economy is running down, and so is the environment. When Conrad and Michel are at school, Micky is obsessed with the end of the world,...

  6. Europe In Autumn

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    6. Europe In Autumn

    by Dave Hutchinson

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    Europe is crumbling, nation states are falling apart, in their place are emerging a myriad of tiny independent statelets, some as small as a city block, some as long and...

  7. The Peripheral

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    7. The Peripheral

    by Gibson, William

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    In a run-down part of America's rural South where jobs are scarce, Flynne and her veteran brother, Burton, make a precarious offering security services in an online game. But in...

  8. Lagoon

    8. Lagoon

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

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    Three strangers, a marine biologist who has just had a bust-up with her husband, a soldier who has just had a fight with his superior, and a rapper who has...

  9. Afterparty

    9. Afterparty

    by Daryl Gregory

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    Gregory is one of several authors who had more than one book published during the year. One, We Are All Completely Fine, is a very effective horror story, but it...

  10. Bête

    10. Bête

    by Adam Roberts

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    Adam Roberts is another author who produced more than one book in the year. In fact, five books came out: a glorious pastiche of Jules Verne, Twenty Trillion Leagues Under...

  11. The Southern Reach Trilogy

    11. The Southern Reach Trilogy

    by Vandermeer, Jeff

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    The three complete novels that make up this trilogy, Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance, were all first published during 2014. Brought together, they make for a fascinating mixture of science fiction...

  12. Ancillary Sword

    12. Ancillary Sword

    by Leckie, Ann

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    Ann Leckie's first book, Ancillary Justice, won just about every award going, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Arthur C. Clarke and the BSFA awards. Now, here's the sequel to...

  13. My Real Children

    13. My Real Children

    by Walton, Jo

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    Patricia is a confused old lady, whose memories of the past don't make sense, because she is remembering two very different pasts. In her first job as a teacher at...

  14. All Those Vanished Engines

    14. All Those Vanished Engines

    by Paul Park

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    Paul Park's return to science fiction takes the form of an alternate history, or a set of alternate histories, or nested alternate histories, or perhaps something else entirely. We begin...

  15. A Man Lies Dreaming

    15. A Man Lies Dreaming

    by Tidhar, Lavie

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    In his World Fantasy Award winning novel Osama, Lavie Tidhar turned Osama bin Laden into the hero of a series of pulp noir novels in an alternate version of our...

  16. Ultima

    Proxima book 2

    16. Ultima

    by Stephen Baxter

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    Stephen Baxter's Proxima was one of the great science fiction novels of 2013. It told of a group of convicts who are shipped out to the newly discovered world of...

  17. Yesterday’s Kin

    17. Yesterday’s Kin

    by Nancy Kress

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    This short novel by one of the most reliable writers in the genre is a first contact story with a difference. Aliens have landed in New York, or rather, just...

  18. The Girl With All The Gifts

    18. The Girl With All The Gifts

    by M. R. Carey

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    Melanie is a clever girl, she has a genius-level IQ and she's only 10 years old. But the adults looking after her keep her tied up and at gunpoint, because...

  19. The Bees

    19. The Bees

    by Laline Paull

    • On the same lists

    Throughout the history of the genre, authors have written dystopian views of highly regimented societies where everyone is assigned a place from birth and must stick to that role. Well...

  20. A Darkling Sea -

    20. A Darkling Sea -

    by James L. Cambias

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    When a bunch of Hugo and Nebula award winners queue up to praise a first novel from a brand new writer, and when they compare it to Hal Clement and...

  21. Three Body Problem (chinese)

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    21. Three Body Problem (chinese)

    by Liu, Cixin

    • On the same lists

    If you are looking for an introduction to the best Chinese science fiction, look no further than Lui Cixin's stunning and much celebrated award-winning trilogy which has sold nearly half...

  22. The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August

    22. The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August

    by Claire North

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    What would you do if you could live your life over and over again? It may not be as idyllic an option as it sounds, as Claire North demonstrates in...

  23. The Rifters

    23. The Rifters

    by Peter Watts

    • Same author

    A trilogy that grows from a limited deep ocean outpost to the sprawling Pacific Ocean to cyberspace.

    A trilogy that grows from a limited deep ocean outpost to the sprawling Pacific Ocean to cyberspace.

  24. Station Eleven

    24. Station Eleven

    by Emily St. John Mandel

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    Is there anything new to be done with a post-apocalypse scenario? Well, read Station Eleven and find out.In a performance of King Lear, one snowy night in Toronto, the leading...

  25. The Martian

    25. The Martian

    by Weir, Andy

    • On the same lists

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling.”—The...

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