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30 science fiction books to read after Three Body Problem (chinese), by Liu, Cixin, the closest match first.

  1. The Dark Forest

    Three Body Series book 2

    1. The Dark Forest

    by Liu, Cixin

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Time is running out for humanity in The Dark Forest, the stunning sequel to Cixin Liu's award-winning and bestselling masterpiece, The Three-Body Problem. Earth is still reeling from the revelation...

  2. Death's End

    Three Body Series book 3

    2. Death's End

    by Liu, Cixin

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold... Half a...

  3. The Race

    3. 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...

  4. Echopraxia

    Firefall book 2

    4. 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...

  5. Thus Were Their Faces

    5. Thus Were Their Faces

    by Silvina Ocampo

    • On the same lists

    Silvina Ocampo was the wife of Adolfo Bioy Casares and friend of Jorge Luis Borges, so it is easy to anticipate what sort of fiction she wrote. But as this...

  6. The Abyss Beyond Dreams

    Chronicle Of The Fallers book 1 Start here

    6. 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...

  7. 2015: The Bone Clocks

    7. 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,...

  8. Wolves

    8. 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,...

  9. Europe In Autumn

    Fractured Europe book 1 Start here

    9. 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...

  10. The Peripheral

    The Jackpot Trilogy book 1 Start here

    10. 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...

  11. Lagoon

    11. 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...

  12. Afterparty

    12. 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...

  13. Bête

    13. 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...

  14. The Southern Reach Trilogy

    14. The Southern Reach Trilogy

    by Vandermeer, Jeff

    • On the same lists

    The three complete novels that make up this trilogy, Annihilation, Authority and Acceptance, were all first published during 2014. Brought together, they make for a fascinating mixture of science fiction...

  15. Ancillary Sword

    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...

  16. My Real Children

    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...

  17. All Those Vanished Engines

    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...

  18. A Man Lies Dreaming

    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...

  19. Ultima

    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...

  20. Yesterday’s Kin

    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...

  21. The Girl With All The Gifts

    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...

  22. The Bees

    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...

  23. The Sfwa European Hall Of Fame

    23. The Sfwa European Hall Of Fame

    by Morrow, James

    • On the same lists

    Short stories are often a great way for readers to discover new writers, so they are often a key route by which non-Anglophone writers can reach an English readership. Even...

  24. Labyrinths

    24. Labyrinths

    by Jorge Luis Borges

    • On the same lists

    Labyrinths, a collection of ficciones and other short pieces from several of Borges's earlier books, was the first opportunity the mass of English speakers had to encounter the work of...

  25. Troll: A Love Story

    25. Troll: A Love Story

    by Johanna Sinisalo

    • On the same lists

    One of the things that should make fiction in translation so appealing to science fiction readers is that the stories are often built around very different cultures, traditions, and assumptions ...

  26. Nest Of Worlds

    26. Nest Of Worlds

    by Marek S. Huberath

    • On the same lists

    To illustrate the problems associated with translation, this novel was a major success in its native Poland, but even though there was a very fine translation already in existence by...

  27. Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory To The End Of Mankind

    27. Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory To The End Of Mankind

    • On the same lists

    Rosny was the pseudonym of the Belgian writer, Joseph-Henri Boëx, who rivals his near contemporary, H.G. Wells, as one of the founding figures of European science fiction. Or at least,...

  28. The Cusanus Game

    28. The Cusanus Game

    by Wolfgang Jeschke

    • On the same lists

    By the middle of this century, Northern Europe is a nuclear wasteland, with economic and political consequences that threaten the whole of human civilisation. In Italy, a young woman is...

  29. Harmony

    29. Harmony

    by Project Itoh

    • On the same lists

    Like China, Japan has one of the liveliest science fiction scenes in the world, and one of the least known in the West. Very few Japanese science fiction writers have...

  30. The Angel Maker

    30. The Angel Maker

    by Stefan Brijs

    • On the same lists

    In a small village at the point where the Dutch, Belgian and German borders meet, a strange doctor arrives with three even stranger children. Slowly, as we come to understand...

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