Books like Starter Villain
27 science fiction books to read after Starter Villain, by John Scalzi, the closest match first.
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1. Some Desperate Glory
by Tesh, Emily
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While we live, the enemy shall fear us.All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea...
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2. Translation State
by Leckie, Ann
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"Translation State" is a 2023 science fiction novel by Ann Leckie, set in the Imperial Radch universe. It follows three characters whose lives intersect as they deal with the mystery...
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3. The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz
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On Sask-E, a corporate-owned planet being terraformed, Destry is a ranger who maintains the ecosystem. She discovers a hidden city of people who should not exist, inside a volcano, and...
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4. In Ascension
by Martin MacInnes
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Leigh grows up in Rotterdam, drawn to the water to escape a violent father, and becomes a marine biologist. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic, she joins the...
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5. Chain-Gang All-Stars
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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She felt their eyes, all those executioners…Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a...
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The Murderbot Diaries book 7
6. System Collapse
by Wells, Martha
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Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a...
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7. The Ten Percent Thief
by Lavanya Lakshminarayan
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Apex City, once Bangalore, is ruled by a Bell Curve: the elite Virtuals live online, while those who score lowest are sent to live as Analogs, without power or running...
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8. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
by Isabel Waidner
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Corey Fah is about to receive a windfall from the Social Evils prize, but the trophy, a neon-beige object with a hint of the UFO, never quite arrives. Corey, partner...
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9. In the Lives of Puppets
by Klune, T. J.
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In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum...
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Red Rising Trilogy book 6
10. Light Bringer
by Brown, Pierce
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The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of...
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11. The Marriage Act
by John Marrs
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In Britain, the Sanctity of Marriage Act offers couples perks such as better healthcare and lower taxes if they accept a 'Smart Marriage', with an AI device recording their conversations....
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12. The Light Pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
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Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels gradually wreak havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast....
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13. The Ferryman
by Cronin, Justin
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On the island of Prospera, people live long lives until their forearm monitors drop below ten percent. Then a ferryman takes them to a third island, the Nursery, to be...
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14. The Future
by Alderman, Naomi
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Martha Einkorn escapes her father's doomsday cult and takes a job with Lenk Sketlish, who runs the world's largest social network. Elsewhere an internet survivalist in Singapore is hunted by...
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15. Land of Milk and Honey
by C Pam Zhang
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In a near future where climate collapse has made food scarce and most people live on grey mung-bean flour, a 29-year-old chef takes a job at a remote mountain community....
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16. The Deep Sky
by Yume Kitasei
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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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17. Bridge
by Lauren Beukes
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After her mother's death, Bridge finds a cocoon-like pod called a dreamworm among her belongings, and realises her mother may have been telling the truth about it. Its threads let...
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18. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
by Marisa Crane
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In a near future the Department of Balance punishes wrongdoers not with prison but with extra shadows, and people who carry them are shunned as Shadesters. Kris, a Shadester, has...
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19. Head On
by John Scalzi
- Same author
Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through...
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Old Man's War book 6
20. The End Of All Things
by John Scalzi
- Same author
Humans expanded into space... only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a...
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21. When the Moon Hits Your Eye
by John Scalzi
- Same author
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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Old Man's War book 7
22. The Shattering Peace
by John Scalzi
- Same author
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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23. The Kaiju Preservation Society
by John Scalzi
- Same author
NÃO ESTAMOS APENAS PROTEGENDO VOCÊ DOS ANIMAIS. ESTAMOS PROTEGENDO OS ANIMAIS DE VOCÊ.Quando a cidade de Nova York é assolada pela covid-19, Jamie Gray perde o emprego e passa a...
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The Interdependency book 3
24. The Last Emperox
by John Scalzi
- Same author
The Interdependency is collapsing as the Flow streams, which link its worlds, fail. Grayland II, the new emperox, has to unite her people and defeat those who profit from the...
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The Interdependency book 1 Start here
25. The Collapsing Empire
by John Scalzi
- Same author
Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars....
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Old Man's War book 1 Start here
26. Old Man's War
by John Scalzi
- Same author
Geriatrics are transferred into healthier bodies and enhanced soldier bodies.
John Scalzi is one of the shining lights of today’s science fiction landscape. His first novel, Old Man’s War, was an incredible introduction, bringing Scalzi to international attention, as well...
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Children Of Time book 3
27. 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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