Books like Station Eleven
30 science fiction books to read after Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, the closest match first.
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1. The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August
by Claire North
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What would you do if you could live your life over and over again? It may not be as idyllic an option as it sounds, as Claire North demonstrates in...
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2. Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
- Same author
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest,...
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3. The Race
by Nina Allan
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For the last few years, Nina Allan has been attracting a lot of attention and award nominations for the haunting quality of her short stories. Now she brings that same...
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4. Echopraxia
by Peter Watts
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The sequel to his acclaimed Blindsight begins in the wilderness, where biologist Daniel Bruks has turned his back on humanity. Intruders force him to retreat to a strange monastery, but...
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5. Swastika Night
by Katharine Burdekin
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If there is one overused cliché in science fiction, it is the alternate history novel in which Hitler won the Second World War. But this is a novel about the...
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6. Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart
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A classic Sci Fi novel where an unexpected pandemic turns into an extinction level event.
Earth Abides is something of a rarity among the work of George R. Stewart. He wrote mostly biographies and studies of American history, and when he did write fiction, as...
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7. Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by Mitchell, David
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Inevitably, there is a continuity between past and future. The present is not a cut-off point between one and the other, but simply a sliding scale in the process of...
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8. Lord Of The Flies
by Golding, William
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A plane carrying schoolboys crashes on an uninhabited Pacific island with no adults left alive. Ralph, who is elected leader after blowing a conch to gather the others, tries to...
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9. The Abyss Beyond Dreams
by Hamilton, Peter F.
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A self-proclaimed prophet is haunted by visions of a lost civilisation, and the Commonwealth's founder, Nigel Sheldon, goes to find out whether they come from the Void, the vast region...
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10. 2015: The Bone Clocks
by Mitchell, David
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The story starts in 1984, introducing us to a 15-year-old girl from England named Holly. The book shares the significant moments in Holly's life as she intersects with various characters,...
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11. Wolves
by Simon Ings
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It*s the near future; the economy is running down, and so is the environment. When Conrad and Michel are at school, Micky is obsessed with the end of the world,...
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12. Europe In Autumn
by Dave Hutchinson
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Europe is crumbling, nation states are falling apart, in their place are emerging a myriad of tiny independent statelets, some as small as a city block, some as long and...
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13. The Peripheral
by Gibson, William
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In a run-down part of America's rural South where jobs are scarce, Flynne and her veteran brother, Burton, make a precarious offering security services in an online game. But in...
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14. Lagoon
by Okorafor, Nnedi
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Three strangers, a marine biologist who has just had a bust-up with her husband, a soldier who has just had a fight with his superior, and a rapper who has...
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15. Afterparty
by Daryl Gregory
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Gregory is one of several authors who had more than one book published during the year. One, We Are All Completely Fine, is a very effective horror story, but it...
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16. The Skylark Of Space And Other Works By E.e.
by E. E. Smith
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"Space opera" was a disparaging term coined by Wilson Tucker for the sort of brash interstellar adventure that has been the staple of science fiction magazines before the Second World...
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17. The Bridge
by Iain Banks
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A mysterious structure, a symbolic dream, a journey of self-discovery, a love story--this novel has lots to offer.
Iain Banks had written a string of science fiction before he finally burst into print with his brilliant and controversial novel, The Wasp Factory. That and the two novels that...
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18. Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
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When it was first published, Gravity's Rainbow was shortlisted for the Nebula Award, losing out to Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. In their introduction to The Secret History of...
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19. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel Of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
by Amitav Ghosh
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In 1898, the British scientist Ronald Ross, working in Calcutta, made a major discovery about the transmission of malaria for which he would eventually be awarded the Nobel Prize. But...
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20. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel
by Karen Joy Fowler
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Karen Joy Fowler isn't really a mainstream writer: she began writing science fiction, practically all of her short fiction is sf or fantasy, and she jointly founded the James Tiptree...
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21. A Maggot
by John Fowles
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Fowles is known as a postmodern writer, though some of the postmodern techniques he uses could equally be considered fantastic: the god game in The Magus for instance, or the...
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22. C
by Tom Mccarthy
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Even when the British new wave was introducing literary experiment into science fiction, the genre has been suspicious of the avantgarde. There is a sense that no nonsense storytelling does...
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23. Strange Bodies: A Novel
by Marcel Theroux
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Perhaps it is the fact that he is the son of Paul Theroux that tends to get Marcel Theroux tagged as a mainstream novelist. In fact his work has often...
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24. Viper Wine: A Novel
by Hermione Eyre
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This first novel seems like a fairly conventional historical fiction telling the true story of the death of the Stuart beauty Venetia Stanley in 1633. In her thirties she began...
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25. Set This House In Order: A Romance Of Souls
by Matt Ruff
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Matt Ruff isn't exactly a mainstream writer, his previous novels, Fool on the Hill and Sewer, Gas & Electric were both overtly works of the fantastic, but Set This House...
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26. Resistance
by Owen Sheers
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Sheers is a Welsh poet who chose an unlikely topic for his first novel, because it is basically another version of the Germans winning World War Two, an old and...
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27. Golden Days
by Carolyn See
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There was a rather grisly trend in the early 1980s for television plays such as The Day After and Threads to portray the horrific aftereffects of nuclear war in the...
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28. Licht - Die Trilogie: Drei Romane
by M. John Harrison
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With The Centauri Device, M. John Harrison provided the foundation text of the British Renaissance, or the New Space Opera, or both (depending on who you listen to). Then he...
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29. River Of Gods
by Ian Mcdonald
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The future is here, William Gibson once said, it's just not evenly distributed. That unevenness of distribution is especially apparent in what we still call the Third World, those countries...
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30. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance Hardcover November 18, 2014
by Vandermeer, Jeff
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Trilogies have more or less become the default form of science fiction these days. But even so, producing all three volumes of a trilogy in a year is not exactly...
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