Books like Gideon the Ninth
21 science fiction books to read after Gideon the Ninth, by Muir, Tamsyn, the closest match first.
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The Locked Tomb book 2
1. Harrow the Ninth
by Muir, Tamsyn
- Same series
- Same author
"She answered the Emperor's call.She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.In victory, her world has turned to ash.After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn...
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2. Nona the Ninth
by Muir, Tamsyn
- Same series
- Same author
Her city is under siege.The zombies are coming back.And all Nona wants is a birthday party.In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a...
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Red Rising Trilogy book 5
3. Dark Age
by Brown, Pierce
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He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw.Cast out of the...
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Teixcalaan book 1 Start here
4. A Memory Called Empire
by Arkady Martine
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Won the 2020 Hugo for Best Novel. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is posted far from her mining station home, to the Empire's glorious capital. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her...
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5. The City in the Middle of the Night
by Charlie Jane Anders
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Would you give up everything to change the world?Humanity clings to life on January – a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine...
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6. The Light Brigade
by Hurley, Kameron
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From the Hugo Award–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order...
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7. A Song for a New Day
by Sarah Pinsker
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In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was...
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8. The Old Drift
by Namwali Serpell
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On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story...
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9. Recursion
by Blake Crouch
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Memory makes reality.That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its...
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10. This Is How You Lose the Time War
by El-Mohtar, Amal
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Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar...
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11. The Deep
by Rivers Solomon
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Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be...
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12. Exhalation
by Ted Chiang
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the...
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13. Machines Like Me
by Ian McEwan
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Machines Like Me is the 15th novel by the English author Ian McEwan. The novel published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape.The novel is set in the 1980s in an alternative...
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14. Cage of Souls
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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Stefan Advani is a rebel, outlaw and survivor, and his account takes him across the western deserts, down a river into a jungle prison and finally into underground caverns. The...
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15. The Last Astronaut
by David Wellington
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In 2055 NASA has no astronaut corps left, so when a huge object from another star system enters the solar system and ignores every message sent to it, the agency...
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Caine Riordan book 4
16. Marque of Caine
by Charles E. Gannon
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"It's been two years since Caine Riordan was relieved of his command for following both his orders and his conscience. Now he's finally received the message he's been waiting for:...
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The Expanse book 8
17. Tiamat's Wrath
by James S.a. Corey
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Tiamat's Wrath is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and the eighth book in their series The Expanse....
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18. Wanderers
by Wendig, Chuck
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A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and...
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19. To Be Taught, If Fortunate
by Becky Chambers
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At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using...
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20. The Future of Another Timeline
by Annalee Newitz
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"1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends...
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Children Of Time book 3
21. Children of Memory
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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Sequel to Children of Ruin.On Imir, Captain Holt founded a hopeful new colony on an empty world. But generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and...
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