12 must-read science fiction fantasy books like Ra by qntm

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Ra

By: qntm

4.11

Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition

Magic is real. Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's m…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Ra by qntm , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Prince of Milk

By: Exurb1a

4.24

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

All of time is simultaneous. Matter tends towards perfection. Cats can be dicks sometimes. The Prin… read more

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  • literature
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"You wouldn't understand. Oh shut up, I loved just as well as you in my early years. But to court a married woman, that takes a certain shade of stupidity."

-Exurb1a, The Prince of Milk

"It's fun to think that one day our great, great grandchildren may get that much closer to understanding what the hell creation is doing here in the first place, and glimpsing the underlying structure…"

-Exurb1a, The Prince of Milk

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2. Diaspora

By: Greg Egan

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the end of the 30th century humanity has the capability to travel the universe, to journey beyon… read more

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  • hard science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2) by Greg Egan

3. Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)

By: Greg Egan

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace… read more

Similar categories in Greg Egan's Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2) book and qntm's Ra

  • hard science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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4. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

Similar categories in China Miéville's Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) book and qntm's Ra

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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5. Unsong

By: Scott Alexander

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

Aaron Smith-Teller works in a kabbalistic sweatshop in Silicon Valley, where he and hundreds of oth… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

6. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

7. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

By: None

3.50

Format: 519 pages, Paperback

In a time not far from our own, Lawrence sets out simply to build an artifical intelligence that ca… read more

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8. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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9. House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.51

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

11. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) book and qntm's Ra

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Ra by qntm

12. Ra

By: qntm

4.11

Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition

Magic is real. Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's m… read more

Similar categories in qntm's Ra book and qntm's Ra

  • urban fantasy
  • unfinished
  • literature
  • science fiction fantasy
  • hard science fiction
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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13. Exordia

By: Seth Dickinson

3.78

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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14. Morphotrophic

By: Greg Egan

4.26

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world where the cells that make up our bodies are not committed to any one organism, Marla is … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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15. The Fifth Science

By: Exurb1a

4.41

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

The Galactic Human Empire was built atop four logic, physics, psychology, and sociology. Standing … read more

Similar categories in Exurb1a's The Fifth Science book and qntm's Ra

  • literature
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Humans are the only animals that build zoos for themselves."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Distance appears to only apply when the universe knows She is being watched."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Go home and write me, tell me how it was, leave a review. Go home, you bunch of absolute, absolute oxygen thieves."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

"Adam laid in the dark for a long time, thinking and not thinking. Thinking in an indirect way in the fashion one knows the sun is there without having to look straight at the thing."

-Exurb1a, The Fifth Science

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16. Worth the Candle

By: cthulhuraejepsen

4.27

Format: 5199 pages, ebook

From the age of nine, Juniper Smith began filling notebooks with his worlds, at first places of fan… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I can imagine"

-cthulhuraejepsen, Worth the Candle

"There’s always manipulation,"

-cthulhuraejepsen, Worth the Candle

"I spoke with the Dungeon Master,"

-cthulhuraejepsen, Worth the Candle

"I read the books very quickly, and might have missed something,"

-cthulhuraejepsen, Worth the Candle

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17. Theft of Fire

By: Devon Eriksen

4.23

Format: 500 pages, ebook

At the frozen edge of the solar system lies a hidden treasure which could spell their fortune or th… read more

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  • hard science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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18. Logic Beach: Part I

By: Exurb1a

4.31

Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition

Mathematician Polly Hare is missing. She leaves one cat, one scarf, and a hypergeometric theory of… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Scale by Greg Egan

19. Scale

By: Greg Egan

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

When electronics importer Cara Leon goes missing, private investigator Sam Mujrif is hired by her s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Geometry for Ocelots by Exurb1a

20. Geometry for Ocelots

By: Exurb1a

4.42

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

It is the end of history and all is known, or will be soon. Humanity long ago transitioned to the e… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Deep Black (Arcana Imperii #2) by Miles  Cameron

21. Deep Black (Arcana Imperii #2)

By: Miles Cameron

4.40

Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition

Marca Nbaro had always dreamed of serving aboard the Greatships, with their vast cargo holds and a … read more

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  • science fiction

19 must-read fiction books like Ra by qntm

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The Prince of Milk

Exurb1a

4.24

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Diaspora

Greg Egan

4.39

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Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)

Greg Egan

4.39

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Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

China Miéville

3.80

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MultiReal (Jump 225, #2)

David Louis Edelman

3.89

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)

Skyler Ramirez

4.08

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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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