Books like Shards of Earth
24 science fiction books to read after Shards of Earth, by Tchaikovsky, Adrian, the closest match first.
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1. 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,...
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2. Project Hail Mary
by Weir, Andy
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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...
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Teixcalaan book 2
3. A Desolation Called Peace
by Arkady Martine
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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...
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Wayfarers book 4
4. 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,...
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5. Machinehood
by S. B. Divya
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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,...
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6. Klara and the Sun
by Ishiguro, Kazuo
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"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...
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7. Plague Birds
by Jason Sanford
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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....
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8. Deep Wheel Orcadia
by Harry Josephine Giles
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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...
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9. A River Called Time
by Courttia Newland
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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...
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10. Skyward Inn
by Aliya Whiteley
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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...
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11. The Echo Wife
by Gailey, Sarah
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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...
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The Murderbot Diaries book 6
12. Fugitive Telemetry
by Wells, Martha
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No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it...
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13. Winter's Orbit
by Everina Maxwell
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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...
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14. The End of Men
by Christina Sweeney-Baird
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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...
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15. Remote Control
by Okorafor, Nnedi
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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...
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Monk & Robot book 1 Start here
16. 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...
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17. Rabbits
by Terry Miles
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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...
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18. Termination Shock
by Stephenson, Neal
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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...
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19. 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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20. Shroud
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
- Same author
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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21. Service Model
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
- Same author
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...
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22. Alien Clay
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
- Same author
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...
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Children Of Time book 3
23. Children of Memory
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
- Same author
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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24. Cage of Souls
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
- Same author
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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