15 must-read science fiction books like Afterland by Lauren Beukes

Cover of Afterland by Lauren Beukes

Afterland

By: Lauren Beukes

3.26

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still ho…

"The dark comfort of mortality, she thinks, the reminder that other people before them dreamed and suffered, created strange architecture, and disappeared for reasons incomprehensible to those coming after. Ruins are haunted by history, but so are people."

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

"The dark comfort of mortality, she thinks, the reminder that other people before them dreamed and suffered, created strange architecture, and disappeared for reasons incomprehensible to those coming after. Ruins are haunted by history, but so are people."

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

"Non ti conosco e non so cosa è successo nella tua vita. Ma quello che voglio dirti è che vale la pena raccontare alcuni segreti. Altrimenti ti avvelenano come la chemioterapia... ti scavano dall'interno. Devi parlare, anche se solo con un cane che sai che non ti giudicherà. Ma hai molte persone amichevoli qui intorno - ognuna ha attraversato il suo personale inferno - neanche loro ti giudicheranno."

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

"Non ti conosco e non so cosa è successo nella tua vita. Ma quello che voglio dirti è che vale la pena raccontare alcuni segreti. Altrimenti ti avvelenano come la chemioterapia... ti scavano dall'interno. Devi parlare, anche se solo con un cane che sai che non ti giudicherà. Ma hai molte persone amichevoli qui intorno - ognuna ha attraversato il suo personale inferno - neanche loro ti giudicheranno."

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

If you liked the science fiction plot in Afterland by Lauren Beukes , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Borne (Borne, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

1. Borne (Borne, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.93

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Borne (Borne, #1) book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"People with packs are people with purpose."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

Cover of The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch

2. The Book of Joan

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending… read more

Similar categories in Lidia Yuknavitch's The Book of Joan book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • post apocalyptic
  • feminism
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1) by Kim Stanley Robinson

3. The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating n… read more

Similar categories in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1) book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction

4. Speak

By: Louisa Hall , None

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence -- illuminating … read more

Similar categories in Louisa Hall's Speak book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

5. Children of the New World

By: None

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVV… read more

Similar categories in None's Children of the New World book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

6. Seven for a Secret (Timothy Wilde, #2)

By: Lyndsay Faye

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Hardcover

Six months after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and talented officer, Timothy Wilde,… read more

Similar categories in Lyndsay Faye's Seven for a Secret (Timothy Wilde, #2) book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

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7. Followers

By: Megan Angelo

3.62

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying story of two ambitious friends, the dark choices they make and the stunning moment … read more

Similar categories in Megan Angelo's Followers book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Her aloneness was so random, so total and unprovoked . . ."

-Megan Angelo, Followers

"She wanted him not to hold her; he couldn't let go just yet."

-Megan Angelo, Followers

"She loved her father with ease and loved her mother with effort."

-Megan Angelo, Followers

". . . though she couldn't admit it directly, not even to herself."

-Megan Angelo, Followers

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8. 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 Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • dystopia
  • 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 After World by Debbie Urbanski

9. After World

By: Debbie Urbanski

3.30

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it to fall in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Debbie Urbanski's After World book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Baby X

By: Kira Peikoff

3.87

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest b… read more

Similar categories in Kira Peikoff's Baby X book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Afterland by Lauren Beukes

11. Afterland

By: Lauren Beukes

3.26

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still ho… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Beukes's Afterland book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • feminism
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The dark comfort of mortality, she thinks, the reminder that other people before them dreamed and suffered, created strange architecture, and disappeared for reasons incomprehensible to those coming …"

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

"Non ti conosco e non so cosa è successo nella tua vita. Ma quello che voglio dirti è che vale la pena raccontare alcuni segreti. Altrimenti ti avvelenano come la chemioterapia... ti scavano dall'inte…"

-Lauren Beukes, Afterland

Cover of Curfew by Jayne Cowie

12. Curfew

By: Jayne Cowie

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronic… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Cowie's Curfew book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Twice-Drowned Saint by C.S.E. Cooney

13. The Twice-Drowned Saint

By: C.S.E. Cooney

4.10

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

"World Fantasy Award winner Cooney imagines angels as Lovecraftian monsters . . . Plenty of charm!"… read more

Similar categories in C.S.E. Cooney's The Twice-Drowned Saint book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Wayward (Wanderers, #2) by Chuck Wendig

14. Wayward (Wanderers, #2)

By: Chuck Wendig

4.21

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to … read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Wayward (Wanderers, #2) book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Into the Mist (Into the Mist, #1) by P.C. Cast

15. Into the Mist (Into the Mist, #1)

By: P.C. Cast

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

As men fall to the mist, the age of womankind begins to rise Bombs strike US cities and militar… read more

Similar categories in P.C. Cast's Into the Mist (Into the Mist, #1) book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

16. The Dreamers

By: Karen Thompson Walker

3.63

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her … read more

Similar categories in Karen Thompson Walker's The Dreamers book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"But isn't the future always an imaginary thing before it comes?"

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"How expert we are at looking away from what we would rather not see."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

"But time moves in only one direction. Not everything that breaks can be repaired."

-Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

Cover of The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye

17. The King of Infinite Space

By: Lyndsay Faye

3.96

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

In this lush, magical, queer, and feminist take on Hamlet in modern-day New York City, a neuro-atyp… read more

Similar categories in Lyndsay Faye's The King of Infinite Space book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You're a line of music....I could transpose your melody into any key, hum at any tempo, and still know you."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

"I'm not expressing myself well. What I mean is, you're my geodetic North." "And that means?" "I'd be lost without you."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

"While you were gone I...I wore you in my heart. Every day. ...I wore you then, I wear you now. I wear you in my heart of hearts."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

"I don't actually know who's ending. But someone is. Lia said so. And I would crack every unsolved equation left in the world to make sure that it isn't you."

-Lyndsay Faye, The King of Infinite Space

Cover of The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan

18. The Ten Percent Thief

By: Lavanya Lakshminarayan

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, th… read more

Similar categories in Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Clean Air by Sarah  Blake

19. Clean Air

By: Sarah Blake

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn’t the temperature climbing or the … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Blake's Clean Air book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Denial by Jon Raymond

20. Denial

By: Jon Raymond

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2052. Climate change has had a predictably devastating effect: Venice submerged, cyclon… read more

Similar categories in Jon Raymond's Denial book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill

21. The Dissonance

By: Shaun Hamill

3.99

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters comes an epic contemporary fantasy: a story of… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Hamill's The Dissonance book and Lauren Beukes's Afterland

  • fantasy
  • fiction

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