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25 science fiction books to read after Red Side Story, by Fforde, Jasper, the closest match first.

  1. The Ministry of Time

    1. The Ministry of Time

    by Kaliane Bradley

    • On the same lists

    In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry...

  2. Annie Bot

    2. Annie Bot

    by Sierra Greer

    • On the same lists

    Annie is the perfect girlfriend. She has dinner ready for Doug every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and caters to his every sexual whim. Maybe her cleaning...

  3. Service Model

    3. Service Model

    by Tchaikovsky, Adrian

    • On the same lists

    Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a...

  4. Alien Clay

    4. Alien Clay

    by Tchaikovsky, Adrian

    • On the same lists

    On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did...

  5. Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory

    5. Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory

    by Yaroslav Barsukov

    • On the same lists

    Minister Shea Ashcroft refuses a queen's order to gas a crowd of protesters and is banished to the border to oversee the largest defensive tower ever built. The tower uses...

  6. The Mercy of Gods

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    6. The Mercy of Gods

    by James S.a. Corey

    • On the same lists

    A spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the universe itself.How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost...

  7. Orbital

    7. Orbital

    by Samantha Harvey

    • On the same lists

    A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space....

  8. Extremophile

    8. Extremophile

    by Ian Green

    • On the same lists

    London in 2043 is wrecked by climate collapse, and Charlie and Parker are punk biohackers who make bio-enhancements for criminals and activists. When extremist Green activists hire them for jobs...

  9. Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock

    9. Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock

    by Maud Woolf

    • On the same lists

    Lulabelle Rock was a washed-up actress, and the thirteenth clone made of her has one job: to find and kill the twelve before her. The mission goes wrong when the...

  10. Private Rites

    10. Private Rites

    by Julia Armfield

    • On the same lists

    Three estranged sisters, Isla, Irene and Agnes, return to the glass house they grew up in when their father, a cruel and revered architect, dies. Rain has fallen for so...

  11. The Family Experiment

    11. The Family Experiment

    by John Marrs

    • On the same lists

    Some families are virtually perfect…The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people...

  12. The Stardust Grail

    12. The Stardust Grail

    by Yume Kitasei

    • On the same lists

    Maya, a retired art thief who once returned looted artefacts to their home worlds, is asked by an old friend for one last job: to find the Stardust Grail, which...

  13. Extinction

    13. Extinction

    by Douglas Preston

    • On the same lists

    At the Erebus Resort in the Colorado Rockies, scientists have revived Ice Age animals such as woolly mammoths and giant deer, with their aggression genes muted. When honeymooners are attacked...

  14. Moon of the Turning Leaves

    14. Moon of the Turning Leaves

    by Waubgeshig Rice

    • On the same lists

    More than a decade after the collapse of the modern world, the Anishinaabe community of Shki-dnakiiwin is running low on food. Evan Whitesky volunteers to lead a small group, including...

  15. The Other Valley

    15. The Other Valley

    by Scott Alexander Howard

    • On the same lists

    Odile Ozanne lives in a valley that is one of many identical, repeating ones. The neighbouring valley is twenty years in the future and the other twenty years in the...

  16. Absolution

    Southern Reach book 4

    16. Absolution

    by Vandermeer, Jeff

    • On the same lists

    The fourth Southern Reach book works as both prequel and sequel to the Area X trilogy and follows three separate expeditions. The first, before the border came down, is a...

  17. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

    17. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

    by Jason Pargin

    • On the same lists

    Abbott Coburn, 26, lives with his father and finds comfort online. A strangely dressed woman pays him a great deal to drive her and a mysterious black box from California...

  18. The Eyre Affair

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    18. The Eyre Affair

    by Fforde, Jasper

    • Same author

    Imagine an alternate world where the world of books and people collide. It does in this delightful series by Jasper Fforde. I could spend the next 10,000 words trying to...

  19. Lost In A Good Book

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    19. Lost In A Good Book

    by Fforde, Jasper

    • Same author

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Constant Rabbit comes “Harry Potter just for adults . . . [an] immensely enjoyable, almost compulsive experience” (The New York...

  20. The Well Of Lost Plots

    Thursday Next book 3

    20. The Well Of Lost Plots

    by Fforde, Jasper

    • Same author

    Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. After two rollicking New York Times-bestselling adventures through the Western literary canon, Britain's Prose Resource Operative was literally and literaturally at her wit's end...

  21. Something Rotten

    Thursday Next book 4

    21. Something Rotten

    by Fforde, Jasper

    • Same author

    Tired of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction, literary sleuth Thursday Next packs up her son, Friday, to return to Swindon, accompanied by the Danish prince Hamlet, only to...

  22. First Among Sequels

    Thursday Next book 5

    22. First Among Sequels

    by Fforde, Jasper

    • Same author

    The fifth installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of The...

  23. One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing

    Thursday Next book 6

    23. One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing

    by Fforde, Jasper

    • Same author

    The sixth installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of Early...

  24. The Woman Who Died A Lot

    Thursday Next book 7

    24. The Woman Who Died A Lot

    by Fforde, Jasper

    • Same author

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ex-detective Thursday Next faces her trickiest assignment yet in the seventh novel of this renowned series, “[a] bibliophile’s Wonderland” (The Plain Dealer). “It’s safe to...

  25. Dark Reading Matter

    25. Dark Reading Matter

    by Fforde, Jasper

    • Same author

    Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was featured in the "New York Times," which...

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