Books like The Mountains Of Mourning
30 science fiction books to read after The Mountains Of Mourning, by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster, the closest match first.
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1. Falling Free (1989)
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
- Same series
- Same author
A long running and award winning series that mixes politics, romance, medical ethics, personal identity, and hierarchies.
The quaddies are a generation of people engineered by the corporation GalacTech to work in zero gravity, with four arms and no legs, and they are treated as company property....
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Vorkosigan Saga book 2
2. Shards Of Honour
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
- Same series
- Same author
Shards of Honour is the first Vorkosigan Saga novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, the story of Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan, soldiers on opposite sides who fall in love.
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Vorkosigan Saga book 8
3. Ethan Of Athos
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
- Same series
- Same author
*You'd think that an obstetrician on a planet forbidden to women would be underemployed...* Not so; Dr. Ethan Urquhart, Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Center, is one...
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Vorkosigan Saga book 10
4. Brothers In Arms
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
- Same series
- Same author
Miles must juggle both his identities and find out just who is trying to assassinate which of his personas and why.
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Vorkosigan Saga book 6
5. The Vor Game
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
- Same series
- Same author
The Vor Game is a Vorkosigan Saga novel in which Miles Vorkosigan, a young officer, runs into trouble on an arctic base and ends up in a mutiny and a...
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Vorkosigan Saga book 3
6. Barrayar
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
- Same series
- Same author
Lois McMaster Bujold really does make up for a huge mass of sins that the science-fiction writing industry commits in the form of sexism. Oh, wait... women are meant to...
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Vorkosigan Saga book 11
7. Mirror Dance
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
- Same series
- Same author
Mark Vorkosigan hijacks a ship of the Dendarii Mercenaries and flies to the outlaw planet, Jackson's Whole, to destroy the clone creches where he was raised. The mission goes wrong...
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Vorkosigan Saga book 7
8. Cetaganda
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
- Same series
- Same author
The hero, Miles Vorkosigan, is sent to represent his planet at the funeral of the empress of the planet Cetaganda. While there he becomes involved in a power struggle for...
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Oxford Time Travel book 2
9. To Say Nothing Of The Dog
by Willis, Connie
- On the same lists
This is the first of Willisâ time traveling historians. Ned Henry is looking for something called the bishopâs bird stump in the 1940s, despite the fact that he lives in...
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10. The Caves Of Steel
by Asimov, Isaac
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Earth is overpopulated a thousand years from now. Planets outside of our solar system have been colonized and development of robots through the âpositronic brain.â In this new society, only...
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Retrieval Artist book 1 Start here
11. The Disappeared: A Retrieval Artist Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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Rusch writes about a new world, set in the future, where the humans and alien races try to coexist in a new society. Thereâs a certain level of tolerance being...
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12. Gun, With Occasional Music
by Jonathan Lethem
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A wry and satiric look at the near-future where animals are a part of society, life is monitored with karma cards, and mind-numbing drugs are widely used. The protagonist is a typical noir investigator with a self-deprecating sense of humour and knack for satire.
Set in the future, the humans of the world interact with animals who have developed the ability to speak and interact in society. Inevitably some of them have become bad...
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13. A Philosophical Investigation: A Novel
by Philip Kerr
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What happens when neurologists can test for sociopath tendencies? A list of names and a new serial killer.
Set in the “near future,” scientists have discovered the genetic disposition that makes men more likely to exhibit violent behavior. The breakthrough is in response to an outbreak of serial...
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14. Bimbos Of The Death Sun
by Sharyn Mccrumb
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When a scholar, Dr. James Owen Mega, has his book accepted for publication, he never realizes that his academic tome is about to become a best-seller through the unfortunate name...
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15. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
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A convoluted and twisted book involving murdering ghosts, time travel, and interconnectedness.
Dirk Gently, who was a minor character in one of Adamsâ other works, becomes a private eye in this novel. The character is not the type who checks DNA and...
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16. When Gravity Fails
by George Alec Effinger
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Also a Cyberpunk novel, this one takes place in 22nd century North Africa, where a down-and-out detective must undergo a sophisticated surgery to catch a killer who has been modified with the personality and abilities of every known psychopath.
Marîd Audran is something of a lone wolf in this futuristic book. The current superpowers have foundered and the Middle East is now prospering. The story is set in this...
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17. The Plutonium Blonde
by John Zakour
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This novel is set in 2057, though it easily could have been set 100 years before. Itâs a fairly classic private eye novel with science fiction and humor galore. Zachary...
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18. The Elysium Commission
by Modesitt, L. E.
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As this galaxy becomes more crowded, scientists begin to look for other ways to allow population to continue to grow. They create a universe next to our own; however, in...
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19. Pattern Recognition
by Gibson, William
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One of the few books on this list that is set in the current day, Cayce Pollard reacts to logos and corporate advertising in an allergic fashion. So itâs no...
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20. Red Planet Blues
by Sawyer, Robert J.
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Set on Mars, the book tells of a futuristic society set in New Klondike, a domed city on the Red Planet. Just like its namesake, the town was built to...
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21. Doorways In The Sand
by Zelazny, Roger
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The book reads more like a science fiction caper, where art is stolen and must be retrieved. In this case alien civilizations have swapped their star-stone for some of the...
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22. The Mandel Files, Volume 1: Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder
by Hamilton, Peter F.
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Greg Mandel is an ex-Army officer in Britain. He was part of an experimental group that provided members with intuition and psychic powers. Now out of the Army, Great makes...
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23. Hal Clement's Needle
by Hal Clement
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The Hunter is a small gel-type creature that lives inside of its host. Two such creatures have crashed their ship on Earth. They escaped separately and now the Hunter, who...
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24. Hard-boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World: A Novel
by Murakami, Haruki
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Clearly influenced by hard-boiled detective fiction and cyberpunk fiction this novel does not quite fit into the hard-boiled schematic, but it is a detective story combined with science fiction that descends into an underworld to find a man's mind.
This book, originally published in Japanese, tells two distinct narratives. The science fiction narrative is told by a human with data processing capabilities. This merger of man and machine is...
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25. Tea From An Empty Cup
by Pat Cadigan
- On the same lists
You'd think that Artificial Reality couldn't kill you, since legally speaking, everything is a lie in AR anyway. But that seems to be just exactly what happened - in a...
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Revelation Space book 2
26. Chasm City
by Alastair Reynolds
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Chasm City is the story of what happens when utopia is hit by an epidemic. The story is told through the eyes of Tanner Mirabel, who decides to travel to...
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27. The Automatic Detective
by A. Lee Martinez
- On the same lists
An indestructible robot gives up world domination in favour of driving a cab—but soon is on an quest to find his kidnapped neighbours.
This novel is one of the most unique robot stories in existence, covering not just robots and science fiction, but stirring in the perfect dosage of detective, noir style. If...
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28. A Talent For War
by Mcdevitt, Jack
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Jack McDevitt’s wonderful science fiction mystery rides the line that defines Military Science Fiction very tight. The story, about Alex Benedict’s search for the nature of his uncle’s secret, takes...
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29. The Demolished Man
by Alfred Bester
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Psychic police chase down criminals.
In a future society, extrasensory perception exists in a fraction of the world’s population. There are 3 levels of ESP (or espers as they are called in the book.) They...
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30. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
by Dick, Philip K.
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A novel that contains images that are Retro Futuristic, but is also a story about a post-apocalyptic Earth.
Set in a post-Nuclear War society, the future is pretty bleak. People are being encouraged to leave the planet for parts unknown and are being given an incentive, their own...
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