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27 science fiction books to read after Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen, by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster, the closest match first.

  1. Falling Free (1989)

    1. Falling Free (1989)

    by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

    • Same series
    • Same author

    A long running and award winning series that mixes politics, romance, medical ethics, personal identity, and hierarchies.

    The quaddies are a generation of people engineered by the corporation GalacTech to work in zero gravity, with four arms and no legs, and they are treated as company property....

  2. Shards Of Honour

    Vorkosigan Saga book 2

    2. Shards Of Honour

    by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Shards of Honour is the first Vorkosigan Saga novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, the story of Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan, soldiers on opposite sides who fall in love.

  3. Ethan Of Athos

    Vorkosigan Saga book 8

    3. Ethan Of Athos

    by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

    • Same series
    • Same author

    *You'd think that an obstetrician on a planet forbidden to women would be underemployed...* Not so; Dr. Ethan Urquhart, Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Center, is one...

  4. Brothers In Arms

    Vorkosigan Saga book 10

    4. Brothers In Arms

    by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Miles must juggle both his identities and find out just who is trying to assassinate which of his personas and why.

  5. The Vor Game

    Vorkosigan Saga book 6

    5. The Vor Game

    by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

    • Same series
    • Same author
    Hugo winner 1991

    The Vor Game is a Vorkosigan Saga novel in which Miles Vorkosigan, a young officer, runs into trouble on an arctic base and ends up in a mutiny and a...

  6. Barrayar

    Vorkosigan Saga book 3

    6. Barrayar

    by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

    • Same series
    • Same author
    Hugo winner 1992

    Lois McMaster Bujold really does make up for a huge mass of sins that the science-fiction writing industry commits in the form of sexism. Oh, wait... women are meant to...

  7. Mirror Dance

    Vorkosigan Saga book 11

    7. Mirror Dance

    by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

    • Same series
    • Same author
    Hugo winner 1995

    Mark Vorkosigan hijacks a ship of the Dendarii Mercenaries and flies to the outlaw planet, Jackson's Whole, to destroy the clone creches where he was raised. The mission goes wrong...

  8. Cetaganda

    Vorkosigan Saga book 7

    8. Cetaganda

    by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

    • Same series
    • Same author

    The hero, Miles Vorkosigan, is sent to represent his planet at the funeral of the empress of the planet Cetaganda. While there he becomes involved in a power struggle for...

  9. A Murder in Time

    9. A Murder in Time

    by Julie McElwain

    • On the same lists

    Kendra Donovan is an FBI profiler who, while chasing a killer, is thrown back to 1815 England. There she has to investigate a murder in a country house without the...

  10. Morningstar

    10. Morningstar

    by Brown, Pierce

    • On the same lists

    #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...

  11. Death's End

    Three Body Series book 3

    11. Death's End

    by Liu, Cixin

    • On the same lists

    Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold... Half a...

  12. Sleeping Giants

    Themis Files book 1 Start here

    12. Sleeping Giants

    by Neuvel, Sylvain

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    A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a...

  13. The Obelisk Gate

    The Broken Earth book 2

    13. The Obelisk Gate

    by Jemisin, N. K.

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 2017

    "Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season Continuing the trilogy that began with the award-winning The Fifth Season Winner of the Hugo Award Shortlisted for the...

  14. A Closed and Common Orbit

    Wayfarers book 2

    14. A Closed and Common Orbit

    by Becky Chambers

    • On the same lists

    Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very human emotions. But when her ship was badly damaged, Lovelace...

  15. All the Birds in the Sky

    15. All the Birds in the Sky

    by Charlie Jane Anders

    • On the same lists
    Nebula winner 2016

    An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further complicate things, each of the groups’ most promising followers (Patricia,...

  16. Too Like the Lightning

    Terra Ignota book 1 Start here

    16. Too Like the Lightning

    by Ada Palmer

    • On the same lists

    "The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a...

  17. The Underground Railroad

    17. The Underground Railroad

    by Colson Whitehead

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    Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she...

  18. Dark Matter

    18. Dark Matter

    by Blake Crouch

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    One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an...

  19. After Atlas

    19. After Atlas

    by Emma Newman

    • On the same lists

    "Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems... Govcorp...

  20. Central Station

    20. Central Station

    by Tidhar, Lavie

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    A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally...

  21. Occupy Me (cover not available)

    21. Occupy Me

    by Tricia Sullivan

    • On the same lists

    Pearl is an angel with wings and no clear memory of her origins, who works as a flight attendant and for a Resistance that tries to improve the world through...

  22. Everfair

    22. Everfair

    by Nisi Shawl

    • On the same lists

    An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a...

  23. The Long Cosmos

    The Long Earth book 5

    23. The Long Cosmos

    by Pratchett, Terry

    • On the same lists

    The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine....

  24. The Last One

    24. The Last One

    by Alexandra Oliva

    • On the same lists

    A woman known as Zoo joins a twelve-person reality show, In the Dark, that sends contestants into the woods for a million-dollar prize. While they are out of contact, something...

  25. Underground Airlines

    25. Underground Airlines

    by Ben H. Winters

    • On the same lists

    "It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young...

  26. Crosstalk

    26. Crosstalk

    by Willis, Connie

    • On the same lists

    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...

  27. Ninefox Gambit

    Machineries Of Empire book 1 Start here

    27. Ninefox Gambit

    by Yoon Ha Lee

    • On the same lists

    Yoon Ha Lee is a name that science fiction fans will want to keep in mind for decades to come. Lee’s debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, is exactly the kind of...

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