Books like The Southern Reach Trilogy
30 science fiction books to read after The Southern Reach Trilogy, by Vandermeer, Jeff, the closest match first.
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Southern Reach book 4
1. Absolution
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same series
- Same author
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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Southern Reach book 2
2. Authority
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same series
- Same author
For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X, a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, the...
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Southern Reach book 3
3. Acceptance
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same series
- Same author
From the publisher--- It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area...
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4. Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance Hardcover November 18, 2014
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same series
- Same author
Trilogies have more or less become the default form of science fiction these days. But even so, producing all three volumes of a trilogy in a year is not exactly...
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5. The Race
by Nina Allan
- On the same lists
For the last few years, Nina Allan has been attracting a lot of attention and award nominations for the haunting quality of her short stories. Now she brings that same...
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Firefall book 2
6. Echopraxia
by Peter Watts
- On the same lists
The sequel to his acclaimed Blindsight begins in the wilderness, where biologist Daniel Bruks has turned his back on humanity. Intruders force him to retreat to a strange monastery, but...
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Chronicle Of The Fallers book 1 Start here
7. The Abyss Beyond Dreams
by Hamilton, Peter F.
- On the same lists
A self-proclaimed prophet is haunted by visions of a lost civilisation, and the Commonwealth's founder, Nigel Sheldon, goes to find out whether they come from the Void, the vast region...
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8. 2015: The Bone Clocks
by Mitchell, David
- On the same lists
The story starts in 1984, introducing us to a 15-year-old girl from England named Holly. The book shares the significant moments in Holly's life as she intersects with various characters,...
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9. Wolves
by Simon Ings
- On the same lists
It*s the near future; the economy is running down, and so is the environment. When Conrad and Michel are at school, Micky is obsessed with the end of the world,...
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Fractured Europe book 1 Start here
10. Europe In Autumn
by Dave Hutchinson
- On the same lists
Europe is crumbling, nation states are falling apart, in their place are emerging a myriad of tiny independent statelets, some as small as a city block, some as long and...
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The Jackpot Trilogy book 1 Start here
11. The Peripheral
by Gibson, William
- On the same lists
In a run-down part of America's rural South where jobs are scarce, Flynne and her veteran brother, Burton, make a precarious offering security services in an online game. But in...
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12. Lagoon
by Okorafor, Nnedi
- On the same lists
Three strangers, a marine biologist who has just had a bust-up with her husband, a soldier who has just had a fight with his superior, and a rapper who has...
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13. Afterparty
by Daryl Gregory
- On the same lists
Gregory is one of several authors who had more than one book published during the year. One, We Are All Completely Fine, is a very effective horror story, but it...
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14. Bête
by Adam Roberts
- On the same lists
Adam Roberts is another author who produced more than one book in the year. In fact, five books came out: a glorious pastiche of Jules Verne, Twenty Trillion Leagues Under...
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15. Ancillary Sword
by Leckie, Ann
- On the same lists
Ann Leckie's first book, Ancillary Justice, won just about every award going, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Arthur C. Clarke and the BSFA awards. Now, here's the sequel to...
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16. My Real Children
by Walton, Jo
- On the same lists
Patricia is a confused old lady, whose memories of the past don't make sense, because she is remembering two very different pasts. In her first job as a teacher at...
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17. All Those Vanished Engines
by Paul Park
- On the same lists
Paul Park's return to science fiction takes the form of an alternate history, or a set of alternate histories, or nested alternate histories, or perhaps something else entirely. We begin...
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18. A Man Lies Dreaming
by Tidhar, Lavie
- On the same lists
In his World Fantasy Award winning novel Osama, Lavie Tidhar turned Osama bin Laden into the hero of a series of pulp noir novels in an alternate version of our...
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Proxima book 2
19. Ultima
by Stephen Baxter
- On the same lists
Stephen Baxter's Proxima was one of the great science fiction novels of 2013. It told of a group of convicts who are shipped out to the newly discovered world of...
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20. Yesterday’s Kin
by Nancy Kress
- On the same lists
This short novel by one of the most reliable writers in the genre is a first contact story with a difference. Aliens have landed in New York, or rather, just...
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21. The Girl With All The Gifts
by M. R. Carey
- On the same lists
Melanie is a clever girl, she has a genius-level IQ and she's only 10 years old. But the adults looking after her keep her tied up and at gunpoint, because...
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22. The Bees
by Laline Paull
- On the same lists
Throughout the history of the genre, authors have written dystopian views of highly regimented societies where everyone is assigned a place from birth and must stick to that role. Well...
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23. Borne
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same author
In a ruined city, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small creature named "Borne" tangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic bear made by a biotech firm. She knows her...
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24. A Darkling Sea -
by James L. Cambias
- On the same lists
When a bunch of Hugo and Nebula award winners queue up to praise a first novel from a brand new writer, and when they compare it to Hal Clement and...
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Three Body Series book 1 Start here
25. Three Body Problem (chinese)
by Liu, Cixin
- On the same lists
If you are looking for an introduction to the best Chinese science fiction, look no further than Lui Cixin's stunning and much celebrated award-winning trilogy which has sold nearly half...
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26. The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August
by Claire North
- On the same lists
What would you do if you could live your life over and over again? It may not be as idyllic an option as it sounds, as Claire North demonstrates in...
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27. Annihilation
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same author
An expedition enters the strange, shifting Area X and does not come back the same, a weird-fiction Nebula winner.
Annihilation won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel. It beat out the following nominees to win:The Goblin Emperor Trial by Fire Ancillary Sword The Three-Body Problem Coming Home
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28. Steampunk
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- Same author
An anthology of Steampunk stories that highlight Steampunk's imaginative side, featuring writers such as Neal Stephenson, Michael Chabon, James Baylock, Michael Moorcock, and Joe R. Lansdale.
An anthology of Steampunk stories that highlight Steampunk's imaginative side, featuring writers such as Neal Stephenson, Michael Chabon, James Baylock, Michael Moorcock, and Joe R. Lansdale.
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29. Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
- On the same lists
Is there anything new to be done with a post-apocalypse scenario? Well, read Station Eleven and find out.In a performance of King Lear, one snowy night in Toronto, the leading...
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30. The Martian
by Weir, Andy
- On the same lists
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling.”—The...
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