Books like The Mercy of Gods
25 science fiction books to read after The Mercy of Gods, by James S.a. Corey, the closest match first.
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1. The Ministry of Time
by Kaliane Bradley
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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry...
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2. Annie Bot
by Sierra Greer
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Annie is the perfect girlfriend. She has dinner ready for Doug every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and caters to his every sexual whim. Maybe her cleaning...
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3. Service Model
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a...
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4. Alien Clay
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did...
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5. Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory
by Yaroslav Barsukov
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Minister Shea Ashcroft refuses a queen's order to gas a crowd of protesters and is banished to the border to oversee the largest defensive tower ever built. The tower uses...
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6. Orbital
by Samantha Harvey
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A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space....
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7. Extremophile
by Ian Green
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London in 2043 is wrecked by climate collapse, and Charlie and Parker are punk biohackers who make bio-enhancements for criminals and activists. When extremist Green activists hire them for jobs...
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8. Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock
by Maud Woolf
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Lulabelle Rock was a washed-up actress, and the thirteenth clone made of her has one job: to find and kill the twelve before her. The mission goes wrong when the...
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9. Private Rites
by Julia Armfield
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Three estranged sisters, Isla, Irene and Agnes, return to the glass house they grew up in when their father, a cruel and revered architect, dies. Rain has fallen for so...
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10. The Family Experiment
by John Marrs
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Some families are virtually perfect…The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people...
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11. The Stardust Grail
by Yume Kitasei
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Maya, a retired art thief who once returned looted artefacts to their home worlds, is asked by an old friend for one last job: to find the Stardust Grail, which...
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12. Extinction
by Douglas Preston
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At the Erebus Resort in the Colorado Rockies, scientists have revived Ice Age animals such as woolly mammoths and giant deer, with their aggression genes muted. When honeymooners are attacked...
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13. Moon of the Turning Leaves
by Waubgeshig Rice
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More than a decade after the collapse of the modern world, the Anishinaabe community of Shki-dnakiiwin is running low on food. Evan Whitesky volunteers to lead a small group, including...
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14. The Other Valley
by Scott Alexander Howard
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Odile Ozanne lives in a valley that is one of many identical, repeating ones. The neighbouring valley is twenty years in the future and the other twenty years in the...
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Southern Reach book 4
15. Absolution
by Vandermeer, Jeff
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The fourth Southern Reach book works as both prequel and sequel to the Area X trilogy and follows three separate expeditions. The first, before the border came down, is a...
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16. Red Side Story
by Fforde, Jasper
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A surreal story (Does Jasper write any others?) that is a sequel to Shades of Grey. Edward Russet battles to make sense of his World with an impending hearing before...
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17. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
by Jason Pargin
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Abbott Coburn, 26, lives with his father and finds comfort online. A strangely dressed woman pays him a great deal to drive her and a mysterious black box from California...
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The Expanse book 5
18. Nemesis Games
by James S.a. Corey
- Same author
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...
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The Expanse book 9
19. Leviathan Falls
by James S.a. Corey
- Same author
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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The Expanse book 8
20. Tiamat's Wrath
by James S.a. Corey
- Same author
Tiamat's Wrath is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, and the eighth book in their series The Expanse....
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The Expanse book 7
21. Persepolis Rising
by James S.a. Corey
- Same author
The seventh book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Persepolis Rising finds an old enemy returning home with more power and technology than anyone thought possible, and the crew of...
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The Expanse book 6
22. Babylon's Ashes
by James S.a. Corey
- Same author
The Expanse Saga continues in the 6th installment. The Free Navy – a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships – has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign...
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23. Leviathan Wakes
by James S.a. Corey
- Same author
Showing that new space opera is just as relevant as more traditional space opera, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, writing under the pen-name James S.A. Corey, offer a 2011 sci-fi...
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The Expanse book 2
24. Caliban's War
by James S.a. Corey
- Same author
For a new space opera series in the tradition of some of the older space opera works, give James Cory's The Expanse series a read. It features a heavy Synthetic Biology concept with an engineered alien life form presenting a huge threat to mankind.
The second book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden...
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The Expanse book 3
25. Abaddon's Gate
by James S.a. Corey
- Same author
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a...
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