Books like The Abyss Beyond Dreams
30 science fiction books to read after The Abyss Beyond Dreams, by Hamilton, Peter F., the closest match first.
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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. Bête
by Adam Roberts
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Adam Roberts is another author who produced more than one book in the year. In fact, five books came out: a glorious pastiche of Jules Verne, Twenty Trillion Leagues Under...
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10. The Southern Reach Trilogy
by Vandermeer, Jeff
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The three complete novels that make up this trilogy, Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance, were all first published during 2014. Brought together, they make for a fascinating mixture of science fiction...
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11. Ancillary Sword
by Leckie, Ann
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Ann Leckie's first book, Ancillary Justice, won just about every award going, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Arthur C. Clarke and the BSFA awards. Now, here's the sequel to...
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12. My Real Children
by Walton, Jo
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Patricia is a confused old lady, whose memories of the past don't make sense, because she is remembering two very different pasts. In her first job as a teacher at...
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13. All Those Vanished Engines
by Paul Park
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Paul Park's return to science fiction takes the form of an alternate history, or a set of alternate histories, or nested alternate histories, or perhaps something else entirely. We begin...
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14. A Man Lies Dreaming
by Tidhar, Lavie
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In his World Fantasy Award winning novel Osama, Lavie Tidhar turned Osama bin Laden into the hero of a series of pulp noir novels in an alternate version of our...
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15. Ultima
by Stephen Baxter
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Stephen Baxter's Proxima was one of the great science fiction novels of 2013. It told of a group of convicts who are shipped out to the newly discovered world of...
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16. Yesterday’s Kin
by Nancy Kress
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This short novel by one of the most reliable writers in the genre is a first contact story with a difference. Aliens have landed in New York, or rather, just...
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17. The Girl With All The Gifts
by M. R. Carey
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Melanie is a clever girl, she has a genius-level IQ and she's only 10 years old. But the adults looking after her keep her tied up and at gunpoint, because...
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18. The Bees
by Laline Paull
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Throughout the history of the genre, authors have written dystopian views of highly regimented societies where everyone is assigned a place from birth and must stick to that role. Well...
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by James L. Cambias
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When a bunch of Hugo and Nebula award winners queue up to praise a first novel from a brand new writer, and when they compare it to Hal Clement and...
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20. Three Body Problem (chinese)
by Liu, Cixin
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If you are looking for an introduction to the best Chinese science fiction, look no further than Lui Cixin's stunning and much celebrated award-winning trilogy which has sold nearly half...
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21. 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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22. Pandora's Star
by Hamilton, Peter F.
- Same author
Hummanity can live forever by uploading themselves into new bodies.
The Commonwealth Saga is a vast, sprawling space opera that is spread over several novels and short stories. In a precursor to the main series, Misspent Youth, a rejuvenation procedure...
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23. Judas Unchained
by Hamilton, Peter F.
- Same author
Peter F. Hamilton's superbly imagined, cunningly plotted interstellar adventures are conceived on a staggeringly epic scale and filled with fully realized human and alien characters as complex as they are...
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24. The Dreaming Void
by Hamilton, Peter F.
- Same author
Reviewers exhaust superlatives when it comes to the science fiction of Peter F. Hamilton. His complex and engaging novels, which span thousands of years--and light-years--are as intellectually stimulating as they...
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25. The Temporal Void
by Hamilton, Peter F.
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Many of Peter F. Hamilton's dazzling novels, which offer startling perspectives on tomorrow's technological and cultural trends, are epic in scope, spanning vast stretches of space and time. And yet...
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26. The Evolutionary Void
by Hamilton, Peter F.
- Same author
Araminta becomes the target of a galaxywide search by a government agent seeking to prevent the pilgrimage of a cult into the heart of the Void, while Edeard, the Waterwalker,...
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27. The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder
by Hamilton, Peter F.
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Greg Mandel is an ex-Army officer in Britain. He was part of an experimental group that provided members with intuition and psychic powers. Now out of the Army, Great makes...
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28. A Quantum Murder
by Hamilton, Peter F.
- Same author
Professor Edward Kitchener: a double Nobel Laureate researching quantum cosmology for the Event Horizon conglomerate - but no good to anybody dead and with his lungs spread out on either...
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29. The Nano Flower
by Hamilton, Peter F.
- Same author
Julia Evans: billionairess, owner of Event Horizon, for fifteen years the undisputed power behind England's economic renaissance. And in trouble. With her husband missing and rival companies suddenly claiming to...
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30. Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
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Is there anything new to be done with a post-apocalypse scenario? Well, read Station Eleven and find out.In a performance of King Lear, one snowy night in Toronto, the leading...
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