Books like The Long Cosmos
27 science fiction books to read after The Long Cosmos, by Pratchett, Terry, the closest match first.
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1. A Murder in Time
by Julie McElwain
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Kendra Donovan is an FBI profiler who, while chasing a killer, is thrown back to 1815 England. There she has to investigate a murder in a country house without the...
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2. Morningstar
by Brown, Pierce
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow...
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Three Body Series book 3
3. Death's End
by Liu, Cixin
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Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold... Half a...
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Themis Files book 1 Start here
4. Sleeping Giants
by Neuvel, Sylvain
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A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a...
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The Broken Earth book 2
5. The Obelisk Gate
by Jemisin, N. K.
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"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season Continuing the trilogy that began with the award-winning The Fifth Season Winner of the Hugo Award Shortlisted for the...
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Vorkosigan Saga book 18
6. Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
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The last volume of Bujold's award winning Vorkosigan saga, Cordelia needs to find a new direction for her life.
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Wayfarers book 2
7. A Closed and Common Orbit
by Becky Chambers
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Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very human emotions. But when her ship was badly damaged, Lovelace...
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8. All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Jane Anders
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An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself. To further complicate things, each of the groups’ most promising followers (Patricia,...
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Terra Ignota book 1 Start here
9. Too Like the Lightning
by Ada Palmer
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"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a...
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10. The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she...
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11. Dark Matter
by Blake Crouch
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One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an...
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12. After Atlas
by Emma Newman
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"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man's murder is much more than it seems... Govcorp...
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13. Central Station
by Tidhar, Lavie
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A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally...
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14. Occupy Me
by Tricia Sullivan
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Pearl is an angel with wings and no clear memory of her origins, who works as a flight attendant and for a Resistance that tries to improve the world through...
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15. Everfair
by Nisi Shawl
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An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a...
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16. The Last One
by Alexandra Oliva
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A woman known as Zoo joins a twelve-person reality show, In the Dark, that sends contestants into the woods for a million-dollar prize. While they are out of contact, something...
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17. Underground Airlines
by Ben H. Winters
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"It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young...
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18. Crosstalk
by Willis, Connie
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Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk-- a genre-bending novel that pushes...
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Machineries Of Empire book 1 Start here
19. Ninefox Gambit
by Yoon Ha Lee
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Yoon Ha Lee is a name that science fiction fans will want to keep in mind for decades to come. Lee’s debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, is exactly the kind of...
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20. The Color Of Magic
by Pratchett, Terry
- Same author
A huge series, these books are part of the Comic Fantasy sub-genre. It parodies and is influenced by canonical authors like Tolkien, Lovecraft, and Shakespeare in addition to folklore, mythology, and fairy tales.
What would a list of best fantasy books be without mentioning Terry? Not that Brooks dude who wrote an entire series about glowing pebbles. The other one. The funny one....
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21. The Light Fantastic
by Pratchett, Terry
- Same author
The side-splitting sequel to The Color of Magic, The Light Fantastic by New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett takes readers on another offbeat journey with bumbling wizard Rincewind...
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22. Equal Rites
by Pratchett, Terry
- Same author
Every world has its rules—even a flat onecarried by four elephants riding on a giant turtle. That's why a dying wizard is searching for an eighth son of an eighth...
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23. Mort
by Pratchett, Terry
- Same author
New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett makes Death a central character in Mort, his fourth sojourn to Discworld, the fantasy cosmos where even the angel of darkness needs...
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24. Sourcery
by Pratchett, Terry
- Same author
Sourcery, a hilarious mix of magic, mayhem, and Luggage, is the fifth book in Terry Pratchett's classic fantasy Discworld series. Rincewind, the legendarily inept wizard, has returned after falling off...
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25. Wyrd Sisters
by Pratchett, Terry
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Terry Pratchett’s fantasy classic Wyrd Sisters, a novel in the Discworld series, is the story of Granny Weatherwax, the most highly regarded non-leader a coven of non-social witches could ever...
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26. Pyramids
by Pratchett, Terry
- Same author
Pyramids is the seventh book in the award-winning comic fantasy Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. In Pyramids, you'll discover the tale of Teppic, a student at the Assassin’s Guild of...
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27. Eric
by Pratchett, Terry
- Same author
Discworld's only demonology hacker, Eric,is about to make life very difficult for the rest of Ankh-Morpork's denizens. This would-be Faust is very bad . . . at his work, that...
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