20 best-selling science fiction books like A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

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A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

By: Sylvain Neuvel

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a scfi thriller reminiscent of B…

"It's like a choice, but with fewer options."

-Sylvain Neuvel, A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

If you liked the science fiction plot in A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

By: None

3.78

Format: None pages, ebook

In this revelatory and moving memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his pers… read more

Similar categories in None's Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

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2. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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3. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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4. The Kaiju Preservation Society

By: John Scalzi

3.99

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food deliv… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I lift things."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"So we’re the monster police, too?"

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"...if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

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5. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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6. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

Cover of Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) by Mur Lafferty

7. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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9. The Paradox Hotel

By: Rob Hart

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. Jan… read more

Similar categories in Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The reason humans process pain by inflicting it on others is because it’s a really shitty and childish way of asking for help."

-Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

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10. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Alderman's The Future book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

Cover of Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) by M.R. Carey

11. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) by Edward Ashton

12. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

By: Edward Ashton

3.75

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"

-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

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13. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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14. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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15. A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

By: Sylvain Neuvel

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a scfi thriller reminiscent of B… read more

Similar categories in Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1) book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • historical
  • adult
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It's like a choice, but with fewer options."

-Sylvain Neuvel, A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

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16. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

Cover of Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2) by Edward Ashton

17. Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)

By: Edward Ashton

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and m… read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2) book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Firmament of Flame (The Universe After, #3) by Drew   Williams

18. The Firmament of Flame (The Universe After, #3)

By: Drew Williams

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Firefly and James S. A. Corey's Expanse novels, The Firmament of Flame is the third ins… read more

Similar categories in Drew Williams's The Firmament of Flame (The Universe After, #3) book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Exadelic

By: Jon Evans

3.47

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark ar… read more

Similar categories in Jon Evans's Exadelic book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

20. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky

21. Saturation Point

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Saturation Point book and Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

20 Best fiction books like A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Kaiju Preservation Society

John Scalzi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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