Books like The Old Drift
19 science fiction books to read after The Old Drift, by Namwali Serpell, the closest match first.
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1. Gideon the Ninth
by Muir, Tamsyn
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"The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system...
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2. Dark Age
by Brown, Pierce
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He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw.Cast out of the...
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3. A Memory Called Empire
by Arkady Martine
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Won the 2020 Hugo for Best Novel. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is posted far from her mining station home, to the Empire's glorious capital. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her...
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4. The City in the Middle of the Night
by Charlie Jane Anders
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Would you give up everything to change the world?Humanity clings to life on January – a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine...
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5. The Light Brigade
by Hurley, Kameron
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From the Hugo Award–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order...
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6. A Song for a New Day
by Sarah Pinsker
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In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was...
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7. Recursion
by Blake Crouch
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Memory makes reality.That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction that drives its...
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8. This Is How You Lose the Time War
by El-Mohtar, Amal
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Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar...
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9. The Deep
by Rivers Solomon
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Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be...
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10. Exhalation
by Ted Chiang
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the...
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11. Machines Like Me
by Ian McEwan
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Machines Like Me is the 15th novel by the English author Ian McEwan. The novel published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape.The novel is set in the 1980s in an alternative...
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12. Cage of Souls
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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Stefan Advani is a rebel, outlaw and survivor, and his account takes him across the western deserts, down a river into a jungle prison and finally into underground caverns. The...
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13. The Last Astronaut
by David Wellington
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In 2055 NASA has no astronaut corps left, so when a huge object from another star system enters the solar system and ignores every message sent to it, the agency...
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14. Marque of Caine
by Charles E. Gannon
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"It's been two years since Caine Riordan was relieved of his command for following both his orders and his conscience. Now he's finally received the message he's been waiting for:...
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The Expanse book 8
15. Tiamat's Wrath
by James S.a. Corey
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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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16. Wanderers
by Wendig, Chuck
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A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and...
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17. To Be Taught, If Fortunate
by Becky Chambers
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At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using...
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18. The Future of Another Timeline
by Annalee Newitz
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"1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends...
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19. Children of Memory
by Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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Sequel to Children of Ruin.On Imir, Captain Holt founded a hopeful new colony on an empty world. But generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and...
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