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20 science fiction books to read after The Measure, by Nikki Erlick, the closest match first.

  1. Metronome (cover not available)

    1. Metronome

    by Tom Watson

    • On the same lists

    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...

  2. The Red Scholar's Wake

    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...

  3. Nona the Ninth

    3. Nona the Ninth

    by Muir, Tamsyn

    • On the same lists

    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...

  4. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

    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...

  5. The Kaiju Preservation Society

    5. The Kaiju Preservation Society

    by John Scalzi

    • On the same lists

    NÃO ESTAMOS APENAS PROTEGENDO VOCÊ DOS ANIMAIS. ESTAMOS PROTEGENDO OS ANIMAIS DE VOCÊ.Quando a cidade de Nova York é assolada pela covid-19, Jamie Gray perde o emprego e passa a...

  6. The Spare Man (cover not available)

    6. The Spare Man

    by Mary Robinette Kowal

    • On the same lists

    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...

  7. The Mountain in the Sea

    7. The Mountain in the Sea

    by Ray Nayler

    • On the same lists

    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...

  8. Venomous Lumpsucker

    8. Venomous Lumpsucker

    by Ned Beauman

    • On the same lists

    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...

  9. Sea of Tranquility

    9. Sea of Tranquility

    by Emily St. John Mandel

    • On the same lists

    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,...

  10. Upgrade

    10. Upgrade

    by Blake Crouch

    • On the same lists

    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...

  11. How High We Go in the Dark

    11. How High We Go in the Dark

    by Sequoia Nagamatsu

    • On the same lists

    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...

  12. Leviathan Falls

    The Expanse book 9

    12. Leviathan Falls

    by James S.a. Corey

    • On the same lists

    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...

  13. The Coral Bones

    13. The Coral Bones

    by E. J. Swift

    • On the same lists

    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;...

  14. Plutoshine

    14. Plutoshine

    by Lucy Kissick

    • On the same lists

    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...

  15. Dead Silence

    15. Dead Silence

    by S. A. Barnes

    • On the same lists

    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...

  16. Hunt the Stars

    16. Hunt the Stars

    by Mihalik, Jessie

    • On the same lists

    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...

  17. Ocean's Echo

    17. Ocean's Echo

    by Everina Maxwell

    • On the same lists

    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...

  18. Mickey7

    18. Mickey7

    by Edward Ashton

    • On the same lists

    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...

  19. Station Eternity

    19. Station Eternity

    by Mur Lafferty

    • On the same lists

    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...

  20. The Poppy Fields

    20. The Poppy Fields

    by Nikki Erlick

    • Same author

    Welcome to the Poppy Fields, where there’s hope for even the most battered hearts to heal.Here, in a remote stretch of the California desert, lies an experimental and controversial treatment...

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