7 Top speculative fiction books like Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1) by S.L. Huang

Cover of Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1) by S.L. Huang

Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

By: S.L. Huang

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-g…

"Ms. Russell,"

-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

"Ms. Russell,"

-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

"Wait, you remember where you keep your stashes with equations?"

-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

"Wait, you remember where you keep your stashes with equations?"

-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1) by S.L. Huang , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of A Sorcerer's Apprentice (Bookburners #1.4) by Max Gladstone, Brian Francis Slattery, Mur Lafferty, Margaret Dunlap

1. A Sorcerer's Apprentice (Bookburners #1.4)

By: Max Gladstone , Brian Francis Slattery , Mur Lafferty , Margaret Dunlap

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

Sal and Asanti leave the rest of the Team in the lurch when they jet off to Scotland to attend the … read more

Similar categories in Max Gladstone's A Sorcerer's Apprentice (Bookburners #1.4) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pride's Spell (Sin du Jour, #3) by Matt Wallace

2. Pride's Spell (Sin du Jour, #3)

By: Matt Wallace

3.75

Format: 271 pages, ebook

The team at Sin du Jour--New York's exclusive caterers-to-the-damned--find themselves up against th… read more

Similar categories in Matt Wallace's Pride's Spell (Sin du Jour, #3) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

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

3. 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

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative 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)

Cover of Rabbit Trick (Mindspace Investigations, #0.5) by Alex  Hughes

4. Rabbit Trick (Mindspace Investigations, #0.5)

By: Alex Hughes

3.24

Format: 202 pages, ebook

New short story in the Mindspace Investigations universe (with two bonus short stories in other wor… read more

Similar categories in Alex Hughes's Rabbit Trick (Mindspace Investigations, #0.5) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of The Touchstone Trilogy by Andrea K. Höst

5. The Touchstone Trilogy

By: Andrea K. Höst

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

The complete Touchstone Trilogy, containing "Stray", "Lab Rat One" and "Caszandra". Rescue is only … read more

Similar categories in Andrea K. Höst's The Touchstone Trilogy book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell (Newsflesh Trilogy, #3.3) by Mira Grant

6. The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell (Newsflesh Trilogy, #3.3)

By: Mira Grant

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

Outside the classroom walls the Rising was spreading, but inside was a carefully protected sanctuar… read more

Similar categories in Mira Grant's The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell (Newsflesh Trilogy, #3.3) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fiction

7. The Lost Steersman (The Steerswoman, #3)

By: Rosemary Kirstein

3.39

Format: 414 pages,

How do you find a person you have never seen, or have never heard described? And what if the conseq… read more

Similar categories in Rosemary Kirstein's The Lost Steersman (The Steerswoman, #3) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) by David  Wong

8. John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

By: David Wong

3.88

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too … read more

Similar categories in David Wong's John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"When a man plans, a woman laughs."

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"John, let me make one thing clear,"

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"My melon soul Crushed by your Gallagher of apathy"

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

"No. We talked about this. I’m going home to eat a pie."

-David Wong, John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)

9. The Language of Power (The Steerswoman, #4)

By: Rosemary Kirstein

3.72

Format: 224 pages,

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Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

10. 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 S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

11. 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 S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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)

Cover of Translation State by Ann Leckie

12. 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 S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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

Cover of Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) by Mur Lafferty

13. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) by Malka Ann Older

14. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • mystery
Cover of The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) by Nghi Vo

15. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Cover of Furious Heaven (The Sun Chronicles, #2) by Kate Elliott

16. Furious Heaven (The Sun Chronicles, #2)

By: Kate Elliott

4.25

Format: 1081 pages, Kindle Edition

Non-stop action, space battles and intrigue abound in the second in a galactic-scale, gender-swappe… read more

Similar categories in Kate Elliott's Furious Heaven (The Sun Chronicles, #2) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Witch King by Martha Wells

17. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

Cover of Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction by Ann Leckie

18. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

By: Ann Leckie

4.05

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

19. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi

20. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

By: Wole Talabi

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning Nigerian author presents a mythic tale of disgruntled… read more

Similar categories in Wole Talabi's Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

21. 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 S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #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

Cover of These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) by Bethany Jacobs

22. These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

By: Bethany Jacobs

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones … read more

Similar categories in Bethany Jacobs's These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Wicked Problems (The Craft Wars, #2) by Max Gladstone

23. Wicked Problems (The Craft Wars, #2)

By: Max Gladstone

4.35

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Gods and lawyers battle for the soul of the world in the action-packed second volume of Max Gladsto… read more

Similar categories in Max Gladstone's Wicked Problems (The Craft Wars, #2) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Mal Goes to War: A Novel by Edward Ashton

24. Mal Goes to War: A Novel

By: Edward Ashton

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and… read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mal Goes to War: A Novel book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Exordia by Seth Dickinson

25. 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

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's Exordia book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1) by S.L. Huang

26. Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

By: S.L. Huang

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-g… read more

Similar categories in S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Ms. Russell,"

-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

"Wait, you remember where you keep your stashes with equations?"

-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

"I'll thank you to talk to me like the heavily armed person I am."

-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

"Holy crap. They couldn’t control Rio. They couldn’t control Rio! Note to self: To avoid being vulnerable to telepathy, become a psychopath. No, bad plan, Cas."

-S.L. Huang, Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

Cover of The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

27. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Stardust Grail book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Lady Eve's Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow

28. Lady Eve's Last Con

By: Rebecca Fraimow

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hearts will race and anti-grav boots will fly in this scifi rom-com perfect for fans of WINTER'S OR… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Fraimow's Lady Eve's Last Con book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Green Man's Heir (Green Man, #1) by Juliet E. McKenna

29. The Green Man's Heir (Green Man, #1)

By: Juliet E. McKenna

3.91

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Finalist for Best Fantasy Novel in the 2019 British Fantasy Awards A hundred years ago, a man with … read more

Similar categories in Juliet E. McKenna's The Green Man's Heir (Green Man, #1) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills

30. The Wings Upon Her Back

By: Samantha Mills

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A loyal warrior in a crisis of faith must fight to regain her place and begin her life again while … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Mills's The Wings Upon Her Back book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • urban fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2) by M.R. Carey

31. Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2)

By: M.R. Carey

4.36

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Infinity Gate comes the second and final novel in the Pandominio… read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2) book and S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

30 best-selling fiction books like Zero Sum Game (Cas Russell, #1) by S.L. Huang

Transform Your Habits

A Sorcerer's Apprentice (Bookburners #1.4)

Max Gladstone , Brian Francis Slattery , Mur Lafferty , Margaret Dunlap

3.93

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Pride's Spell (Sin du Jour, #3)

Matt Wallace

3.75

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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