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  1. System Collapse

    The Murderbot Diaries book 7

    1. System Collapse

    by Wells, Martha

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a...

  2. Network Effect

    The Murderbot Diaries book 5

    2. Network Effect

    by Wells, Martha

    • Same series
    • Same author
    Hugo winner 2021 Nebula winner 2020

    Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet...

  3. Artificial Condition

    The Murderbot Diaries book 2

    3. Artificial Condition

    by Wells, Martha

    • Same series
    • Same author

    It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories...

  4. All Systems Red

    The Murderbot Diaries book 1 Start here

    4. All Systems Red

    by Wells, Martha

    • Same series
    • Same author

    The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. It calls itself Murderbot, and...

  5. Light From Uncommon Stars

    5. Light From Uncommon Stars

    by Aoki, Ryka

    • On the same lists

    An adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation,...

  6. Project Hail Mary

    6. Project Hail Mary

    by Weir, Andy

    • On the same lists

    Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He...

  7. A Desolation Called Peace

    Teixcalaan book 2

    7. A Desolation Called Peace

    by Arkady Martine

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 2022

    Sequel to A Memory Called Empire.An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine...

  8. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

    Wayfarers book 4

    8. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

    by Becky Chambers

    • On the same lists

    With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds,...

  9. Machinehood

    9. Machinehood

    by S. B. Divya

    • On the same lists

    In 2095 most people depend on pills that keep them alive and let them compete with AI in a gig economy. Welga Ramirez, a former special forces soldier turned bodyguard,...

  10. Klara and the Sun

    10. Klara and the Sun

    by Ishiguro, Kazuo

    • On the same lists

    "Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational...

  11. Plague Birds

    11. Plague Birds

    by Jason Sanford

    • On the same lists

    Ten thousand years after civilisation collapsed, humans altered with animal genes live in farming villages. Plague birds are enforcers with AIs in their blood who can kill anyone judged guilty....

  12. Deep Wheel Orcadia

    12. Deep Wheel Orcadia

    by Harry Josephine Giles

    • On the same lists

    Harry Josephine Giles's verse novel is written in Orkney dialect, with an English version alongside, and set on a distant space station struggling to survive. Astrid, an art student returning...

  13. A River Called Time

    13. A River Called Time

    by Courttia Newland

    • On the same lists

    In an alternate history where colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade never took hold and African cosmologies shaped the world, Markriss Denny lives in Dinium, a city split between an...

  14. Skyward Inn

    14. Skyward Inn

    by Aliya Whiteley

    • On the same lists

    Jem and Isley, two veterans who fought on opposite sides of the invasion of the planet Qita, run an inn in an isolated corner of England. Their quiet is broken...

  15. The Echo Wife

    15. The Echo Wife

    by Gailey, Sarah

    • On the same lists

    Evelyn Caldwell is a leading cloning scientist who discovers that her husband Nathan has used her research to make Martine, a copy of her who is his idea of the...

  16. Winter's Orbit

    16. Winter's Orbit

    by Everina Maxwell

    • On the same lists

    While the Iskat Empire has long dominated the system through treaties and political alliances, several planets, including Thea, have begun to chafe under Iskat's rule. When tragedy befalls Imperial Prince...

  17. The End of Men

    17. The End of Men

    by Christina Sweeney-Baird

    • On the same lists

    A virus kills most of the world's men in 2025, and Dr Amy Lennox, a Scottish doctor, sees the first cases. The novel follows women across the world as societies...

  18. Remote Control

    18. Remote Control

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • On the same lists

    After a meteor shower, a glowing seed lands near a shea tree in northern Ghana and gives a girl named Fatima a deadly power: anything she touches dies. After a...

  19. A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    Monk & Robot book 1 Start here

    19. A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    by Becky Chambers

    • On the same lists

    It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries...

  20. Shards of Earth

    The Final Architecture book 1 Start here

    20. Shards of Earth

    by Tchaikovsky, Adrian

    • On the same lists

    Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'. Some escaped, but millions more died. So to protect its colonies, humanity shaped the minds of Idris and others into...

  21. Rabbits

    21. Rabbits

    by Terry Miles

    • On the same lists

    Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly underground alternate reality game might just be altering reality itself, set in the same world as the...

  22. Termination Shock

    22. Termination Shock

    by Stephenson, Neal

    • On the same lists

    A billionaire has an idea for reversing global warming, but will it work? And what will the consequences for the planet be? A disparate group of characters from around the...

  23. Constance

    23. Constance

    by Matthew FitzSimmons

    • On the same lists

    In a near future where the rich back themselves up with clones, Constance D'Arcy wakes in a clinic eighteen months after her last upload, with her recent memories missing, and...

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