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27 science fiction books to read after The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi, the closest match first.
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1. Metronome
by Tom Watson
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Aina and Whitney have spent twelve years in exile on an island, each tied to a croft by pills they must take from a machine every eight hours. When their...
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2. The Red Scholar's Wake
by Aliette De Bodard
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Xich Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and...
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3. Nona the Ninth
by Muir, Tamsyn
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Her city is under siege.The zombies are coming back.And all Nona wants is a birthday party.In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a...
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4. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
by Moreno-garcia, Silvia
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In 1871, Carlota Moreau lives with her father at the remote Yucatan hacienda of Yaxaktun, where Doctor Moreau's experiments have created the hybrid people who are her family and her...
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5. The Spare Man
by Mary Robinette Kowal
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Tesla Crane, an inventor and heir, and her husband Shan are on a honeymoon aboard a luxury space liner when a death turns into a murder inquiry. Tesla's service dog...
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6. The Mountain in the Sea
by Ray Nayler
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When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to investigate a highly intelligent, dangerous octopus species, she doesn't pause...
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7. Venomous Lumpsucker
by Ned Beauman
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In a near future where extinction is a financial product and species are traded as credits, Karin Resaint, an animal-cognition scientist, and Mark Halyard, a mining executive with an illegal...
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8. Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel
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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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9. Upgrade
by Blake Crouch
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Logan Ramsay is about to get the brain he always dreamed of. But will he be transformed into something more than human… or something less?When the SWAT team gives the...
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10. How High We Go in the Dark
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
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Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life...
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11. The Measure
by Nikki Erlick
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Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice.It seems like any other day. You wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and head out.But today, when you open your front door, waiting...
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12. Leviathan Falls
by James S.a. Corey
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The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the...
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13. The Coral Bones
by E. J. Swift
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Three women, linked by the ocean, live in different centuries: Hana, a marine biologist documenting the decline of the Great Barrier Reef; Judith, a teenager voyaging from Sydney in 1839;...
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14. Plutoshine
by Lucy Kissick
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On Pluto, a team led by the terraformer Lucian is building a giant mirror to bring light and warmth to the surface. After a tragedy leaves the colony's founder in...
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15. Dead Silence
by S. A. Barnes
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Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of...
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16. Hunt the Stars
by Mihalik, Jessie
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Captain Tavi Zarola leads a small bounty-hunting crew and wants to stay out of the spotlight, but her crew needs money. She takes a job from Torran Fletcher, the ruthless...
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17. Ocean's Echo
by Everina Maxwell
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When Tennal—a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster—is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone with coercive powers strong...
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18. Mickey7
by Edward Ashton
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Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living. Mickey7 is an a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission...
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19. Station Eternity
by Mur Lafferty
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Mallory Viridian is a magnet for murders, so she retreats to Eternity, a sentient space station shared with alien visitors, to keep other people safe. Then a shuttle of humans...
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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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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24. Starter Villain
by John Scalzi
- Same author
Depois de um divórcio conturbado, Charlie abandonou o trabalho como jornalista e passou a se dedicar ao ensino, mas não tem nem muito dinheiro, nem amigos ou parentes próximos, só...
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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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