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30 science fiction books to read after The Book Of Phoenix, by Okorafor, Nnedi, the closest match first.

  1. Who Fears Death

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    1. Who Fears Death

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Born into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is...

  2. Lagoon

    2. Lagoon

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same author

    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...

  3. Death of the Author

    3. Death of the Author

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same author

    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...

  4. Remote Control

    4. Remote Control

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same author

    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...

  5. The Night Masquerade

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    5. The Night Masquerade

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same author

    Binti has returned home after the war, and the peace she has helped to build is threatened as the Khoush and Himba peoples are at odds again. The third Binti...

  6. Home

    Binti book 2

    6. Home

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same author

    Binti, a young woman of the Himba people, has left Earth for the university on another world and survived a war. In the second novella she returns home to her...

  7. Natural History

    7. Natural History

    by Justina Robson

    • On the same lists

    In the far future, humanity has split into the Unevolved and the Augmented. The latter have been forged by biotechnology into forms that allow them to live anywhere, including acting...

  8. Galapagos

    8. Galapagos

    by Kurt Vonnegut

    • On the same lists

    This is the story of a band of people shipwrecked on an island in the Galapagos after a crippling global financial crisis and a bacterium that spreads and makes women infertile—except on the shipwrecked island. The book covers the evolution of humanity over the next million years.

    It was in the isolated environment of the Galapagos Islands that Charles Darwin made the observations that were crucial to the development of his ideas of natural selection, and it...

  9. The Ship Who Sang

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    9. The Ship Who Sang

    by Mccaffrey, Anne

    • On the same lists

    Like both Blood Music and Man Plus, The Ship Who Sang deals with the transformation of one person’s body in a way that comes close to horror. But this novel,...

  10. Evolution

    10. Evolution

    by Stephen Baxter

    • On the same lists

    This novel chronicles human evolution by telling a story where each character represents a different evolutionary stage.

    If Last and First Men is the most spectacular, panoramic view of the future of life in our Solar System, Evolution runs it a close second. It begins 65 million...

  11. Man Plus (1977)

    11. Man Plus (1977)

    by Pohl, Frederik

    • On the same lists

    With nuclear war looming, the United States decides that the only way for humanity to survive is on Mars, and that people must be rebuilt for the planet's thin air....

  12. Golden Son

    12. Golden Son

    by Brown, Pierce

    • On the same lists

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by...

  13. The Dark Forest

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    13. The Dark Forest

    by Liu, Cixin

    • On the same lists

    Time is running out for humanity in The Dark Forest, the stunning sequel to Cixin Liu's award-winning and bestselling masterpiece, The Three-Body Problem. Earth is still reeling from the revelation...

  14. The Fifth Season

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    14. The Fifth Season

    by Jemisin, N. K.

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 2016

    Winner of the 2016 Hugo and nominated for a Nebula, The Fifth Season is a volatile combination of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Dystopian Fiction. Mythology comes alive in this hostile world...

  15. Ancillary Mercy

    15. Ancillary Mercy

    by Leckie, Ann

    • On the same lists

    For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Atheok Station's slums turns up someone who...

  16. The End Of All Things

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    16. The End Of All Things

    by John Scalzi

    • On the same lists

    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...

  17. Xenogenesis

    17. Xenogenesis

    by Butler, Octavia E.

    • On the same lists

    When the Earth is destroyed, the only hope for human life is in the form of the alien Oankali, who have rescued a precious few survivors. But will humans cope...

  18. Nemesis Games

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    18. Nemesis Games

    by James S.a. Corey

    • On the same lists

    The crew of the Rocinante scatter to deal with trouble at home just as the solar system begins to come apart. A Belter faction strikes at Earth and the inner...

  19. Triton

    19. Triton

    by Delany, Samuel R.

    • On the same lists

    Also published as Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia, the novel was conceived as a response to Ursula K. Le Guin’s Ambiguous Utopia, The Dispossessed. But at the core of...

  20. Fools

    20. Fools

    by Pat Cadigan

    • On the same lists

    Cyberpunk, despite its interest in body modifications and computer interfaces, was never really concerned with the posthuman. But occasionally a cyberpunk work would start probing towards the posthuman, raising issues...

  21. Seveneves

    21. Seveneves

    by Stephenson, Neal

    • On the same lists

    "What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band...

  22. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

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    22. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

    by Becky Chambers

    • On the same lists

    When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a...

  23. Raising Caine

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    23. Raising Caine

    by Charles E. Gannon

    • On the same lists

    Caine Riordan has just helped to repel an alien invasion of Earth when the Slaasriithi, mysterious and possibly helpful, ask him to lead a diplomatic mission to their worlds. A...

  24. Europe at Midnight

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    24. Europe at Midnight

    by Dave Hutchinson

    • On the same lists

    In a near-future Europe that has broken into many small states, two stories unfold: Jim, an English intelligence officer drawn in by a stabbing on a London bus into preparations...

  25. Arcadia

    25. Arcadia

    by Iain Pears

    • On the same lists

    In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante...

  26. Way Down Dark

    26. Way Down Dark

    by James Smythe

    • On the same lists

    After Earth became uninhabitable, humans built generation ships, and Chan, 17, lives quietly on one of them, the Australia, where gangs and cults run the decks. She finds a way...

  27. The Heart Goes Last

    27. The Heart Goes Last

    by Margaret Atwood

    • On the same lists

    "Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car,...

  28. The Water Knife

    28. The Water Knife

    by Bacigalupi, Paolo

    • On the same lists

    The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole...

  29. Armada

    29. Armada

    by Cline, Ernest

    • On the same lists

    Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he's spent his life consuming....

  30. The Fold

    30. The Fold

    by Clines, Peter

    • On the same lists

    Mike Erikson, a high school teacher with perfect memory, is asked to inspect a new project by the military: a device that lets people fold space to travel from one...

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