Books like Saltcrop
21 science fiction books to read after Saltcrop, by Yume Kitasei, the closest match first.
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1. The Everlasting
by Harrow, Alix E.
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Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who died for queen and country. Her legend lives on in songs and stories, in children’s...
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2. Death of the Author
by Okorafor, Nnedi
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Zelu, a paraplegic Nigerian American writer, has just lost her teaching job and her novel is going nowhere, until she starts a book about robots in a post-human Nigeria. Rusted...
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3. The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
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A woman is detained at the airport because an algorithm reading her dreams decides she might harm her husband, a near-future novel of surveillance.
Sara Hussein is detained at Los Angeles airport when an algorithm reading her dream data decides she might harm her husband. She is held for observation in a converted school,...
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4. Luminous
by Silvia Park
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In a reunified Korea, robots serve as servants, surrogates, children and lovers, but they are second-class citizens. Two estranged siblings, a detective in the Robot Crimes Unit and a gifted...
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5. Shroud
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . . New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists – and a commercial mission to...
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6. When We Were Real
by Daryl Gregory
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Seven years after an announcement revealed that the world is a simulation, impossible places have started to appear across North America: a frozen tornado, a tunnel outside time, a canyon...
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7. When There Are Wolves Again
by E. J. Swift
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Across about fifty years, two women dream of a Britain with wolves again. Lucy becomes an activist fighting to restore the country's lost habitats, while Hester, a filmmaker, studies the...
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8. There Is No Antimemetics Division
by qntm
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(from back cover)An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.Antimemes are real. Think of any piece...
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9. The Salt Oracle
by Lorraine Wilson
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Auli studies the Oracle, a strange girl who channels dangerous ghosts, aboard the Bellwether, a floating college sheltered from the war on the mainland. When her mentor dies and she...
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10. The Compound
by Aisling Rawle
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Lily—a bored, beautiful twenty-something—wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay...
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11. The Poppy Fields
by Nikki Erlick
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Welcome to the Poppy Fields, where there’s hope for even the most battered hearts to heal.Here, in a remote stretch of the California desert, lies an experimental and controversial treatment...
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12. Of Monsters and Mainframes
by Barbara Truelove
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Spaceships aren't programmed to seek revenge--but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception.Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately, her passengers keep...
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13. When the Moon Hits Your Eye
by John Scalzi
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One day the Moon turns into a ball of cheese, and every piece of moon rock on Earth with it. John Scalzi follows an ensemble through a single lunar cycle,...
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14. Automatic Noodle
by Annalee Newitz
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"From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella about a crew of abandoned food service bots opening their very own restaurant.While San Francisco...
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15. I Think We've Been Here Before
by Suzy Krause
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The Jorgensens, a Saskatchewan farm family, learn that Marlen is terminally ill and that a cosmic blast will end life on Earth within months. Their daughter Nora is far away...
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16. These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
by Yiming Ma
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"For fans of Cloud Atlas and The Power, a hauntingly beautiful and profoundly prescient debut set in a future where China is the sole global superpower and citizens can record...
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17. The Shattering Peace
by John Scalzi
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A decade after the treaty that ended the wars between the Colonial Union, Earth and the alien Conclave, an asteroid holding the 50,000-person Unity Colony disappears from space. Gretchen Trujillo,...
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18. Hammajang Luck
by Makana Yamamoto
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Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a person—costs them too much time with too many of the people who need them most.And it’s all Angel’s fault....
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19. Dissolution
by Nicholas Binge
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Maggie Webb has spent years caring for her husband Stanley as his memory fades. Then a stranger, Hassan, tells her that Stanley is not simply losing his memories: a force...
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20. The Stardust Grail
by Yume Kitasei
- Same author
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...
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21. The Deep Sky
by Yume Kitasei
- Same author
Eighty graduates of an elite programme are aboard the Phoenix, sent to start a new generation in deep space. When a bomb kills three crew and pushes the ship off...
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