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19 science fiction books to read after This Is How You Lose the Time War, by El-Mohtar, Amal, the closest match first.

  1. Gideon the Ninth

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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...

  2. Dark Age

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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...

  3. A Memory Called Empire

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    3. A Memory Called Empire

    by Arkady Martine

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    Hugo winner 2020

    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...

  4. The City in the Middle of the Night

    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...

  5. The Light Brigade

    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...

  6. A Song for a New Day

    6. A Song for a New Day

    by Sarah Pinsker

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    Nebula winner 2019

    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...

  7. The Old Drift

    7. The Old Drift

    by Namwali Serpell

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    On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the epic story...

  8. Recursion

    8. 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...

  9. The Deep

    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...

  10. Exhalation

    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...

  11. Machines Like Me

    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...

  12. Cage of Souls

    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...

  13. The Last Astronaut

    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...

  14. Marque of Caine

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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:...

  15. Tiamat's Wrath

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    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....

  16. Wanderers

    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...

  17. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

    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...

  18. The Future of Another Timeline

    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...

  19. Children of Memory

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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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