The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August
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30 science fiction books to read after The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August, by Claire North, the closest match first.
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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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25. Dangerous Visions
by Harlan Ellison
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Throughout its history, many of the finest and most important works of science fiction have been short stories. Magazines and anthologies have been the lifeblood of the genre for at...
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27. Behold The Man
by Moorcock, Michael
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A story that is inspired by the Gospel of John and is about a man who travels back in time with the intent of meeting Jesus.
The grandfather paradox – which states that if you go back in time and accidentally kill your grandfather you will never be born, so you cannot travel back in time...
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28. A Darkling Sea -
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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29. Dying Inside
by Silverberg, Robert
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Despite his credentials championing hard, rational science fiction, John W. Campbell was a fervent believer in psi powers. Perhaps because of that, whenever telepathy appeared in science fiction, as in...
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30. The Atrocity Exhibition
by J. G. Ballard
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Whenever you put a list of books together, you'll always get disagreements. But this could well be the most controversial choice of all, because J.G. Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition has...
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