14 Best science fiction books like The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu

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The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

By: Ken Liu

3.93

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

original cover of ISBN 9781982134037 From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipate…

"Nostalgia is a wound that we refuse time to heal."

-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

"Nostalgia is a wound that we refuse time to heal."

-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

"The act of remembering is an act of retracing, and by doing so we erase and change the stencil."

-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

"The act of remembering is an act of retracing, and by doing so we erase and change the stencil."

-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

1. Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

4.26

Format: 281 pages, ebook

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more

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  • short story collection
  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

2. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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3. The Time Ships

By: Stephen Baxter

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is a secret passage through time...and it leads all the way to the end of Eternity. But the j… read more

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4. WWW: Wake (WWW, #1)

By: Robert J. Sawyer

3.99

Format: 112 pages,

Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant … read more

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5. Axiomatic

By: Greg Egan

3.86

Format: 157 pages,

Axiomaticis a collection of Greg Egan's short stories that appeared in various science fiction maga… read more

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6. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

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  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

Cover of Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1) by A.R. Merrydew

7. Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

By: A.R. Merrydew

4.23

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

When inventor Godfrey Davis arrived at the ministry that Monday morning he had his first experience… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Sir, I think you need to read this,’ he said, nervously handing over the mainframe’s dissertation of its own wellbeing."

-A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

"Steve shook his head in amazement. ‘If that GOD person hadn’t left that case, we wouldn’t have any of this.’ Thomas agreed. ‘Personally, I can’t praise him enough.’     "

-A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

"Semilla’s Phlegm-O-Matic promptly made an observation. ‘Wow Semilla look at that shuttle.’ ‘Keep your voice down Raymond we’re in danger,’ Semilla hissed. ‘Raymond?’ Burt said incredulously. ‘I had t…"

-A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

"With one hand disturbing a colony of parasitic life forms in his uncombed hair, he yawned loudly. ‘Morning Steve,’ Thomas said scratching his grubby face. His breath drifted across the space between …"

-A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

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8. The Last Sunset

By: March Lions

4.34

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Two baby girls seating in the rear of a car are involved in a terrible accident and their mother di… read more

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"Trust is a strange bedfellow."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"I don't want to be caught with my pants down."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"He sounds like a politician running for office."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

"The truth has a way of coming out of the closet."

-March Lions, The Last Sunset

Cover of Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel by Todor Bombov

9. Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

By: Todor Bombov

4.37

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

2nd Book in Sci-Fi Series Is Set on Saturn’s Moon Homo Cosmicus-2: Titan is a sci-fi novel, sui … read more

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  • science fiction
"While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

"Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you woul…"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

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10. Child of Another Kind

By: Steven Decker

4.29

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

A little girl can look at someone and know their past. How? Why? Single mom Cynthia Pace has he… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"No,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"Teacher,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"We do not sleep,"

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

"They came for me the next morning."

-Steven Decker, Child of Another Kind

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11. Exhalation

By: Ted Chiang

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

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12. Vagabonds

By: Hao Jingfang

3.39

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates fro… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3) by Yoon Ha Lee

13. Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3)

By: Yoon Ha Lee

4.12

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Machineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonis… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The most maddening part of any battle was the waiting."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3)

"the unassuming ones were always agents of revolutionary change."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3)

"According to some law of fuckery and bad luck, enemies always arrived at the most inconvenient time, by chance if not by design."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3)

"In the Compact, there’s a nascent democratic state backed by High General Kel Brezan. The Kel are having fits trying to figure out the mess."

-Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3)

Cover of Parity (Spiral Worlds, #2) by Alexandra Almeida

14. Parity (Spiral Worlds, #2)

By: Alexandra Almeida

4.77

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

SPIRAL WORLDS is a literary, sci-fi series for the fans of Becky Chambers’s A Closed and Common Orb… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
"He could see the stories that connected them, and the secret narratives they chose to hide. He stood witness to the myths and legends running wild in a brand-new world. Stories that gave comfort and …"

-Alexandra Almeida, Parity (Spiral Worlds, #2)

"Scientists and inventors alike, they first guess a new explanation—a hypothesis—as wild and innovative as they can conjure. And then they test it rigorously, their hearts filled with the hope they’ll…"

-Alexandra Almeida, Parity (Spiral Worlds, #2)

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15. A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays

By: Cixin Liu

3.54

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and f… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Model Organisms (Spiral Worlds)

By: Alexandra Almeida

4.19

Format: 23 pages, Kindle Edition

Journey aboard a bus like no other, where every passenger is both unique and unsettlingly identical… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Is Neurocide the Same as Genocide? : And Other Dangerous Ideas (Spiral Worlds) by Alexandra Almeida

17. Is Neurocide the Same as Genocide? : And Other Dangerous Ideas (Spiral Worlds)

By: Alexandra Almeida

4.56

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world grappling with the ethics of advanced technology and the haunting shadows of past genoci… read more

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  • science fiction
"The ones who claim the universe is a dark forest where you either kill or be killed, using safety and security as excuses to maintain the status quo of archaic brains no longer useful in progressive,…"

-Alexandra Almeida, Is Neurocide the Same as Genocide? : And Other Dangerous Ideas (Spiral Worlds)

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18. To Hold Up the Sky

By: Liu Cixin

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem, To Hold Up the Sky… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"If we’re going to be blind, let’s both be blind. If we’re going to be deaf, let’s both be deaf."

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

"There’s no reason to believe that the pace of life for all beings in the universe is like that of humanity."

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

"Imagine if DNA never made mistakes, always replicating and inheriting with perfect fidelity. What would life on Earth become?"

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

"The strongest feeling I’ve gotten from my time in this age is that we’re beyond the time when knowledge can explain everything."

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

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19. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

By: Ken Liu

3.93

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

original cover of ISBN 9781982134037 From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipate… read more

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  • short story collection
  • science fiction fantasy
  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Nostalgia is a wound that we refuse time to heal."

-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

"The act of remembering is an act of retracing, and by doing so we erase and change the stencil."

-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

"As the author, I construct an artifact out of words, but the words are meaningless until they're animated by the consciousness of the reader. The story is co-told by the author and the reader, and ev…"

-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories

Cover of Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3) by A.R. Merrydew

20. Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

By: A.R. Merrydew

4.43

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The third book in the series, ‘Inara’, prepares the reader for the aftermath of Godfrey, and his fr… read more

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"Isn’t this exciting!"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"We might even make this after all,’ he hollered, but the craft didn’t reply."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"If any of them fail me, I will flush them from an airlock into the pit of space, like an unwanted turd. Do I make myself clear?"

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

"Well at least one of you present here today, has the scaly green balls to give me an honest answer,’ he said, as he broke into a hearty lizard laugh."

-A.R. Merrydew, Inara (Godfrey Davis, #3)

Cover of Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-Il Kim

21. Blood of the Old Kings

By: Sung-Il Kim

3.69

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Blood of the Old Kings begins an epic adventure in which three strangers journey through a vast Emp… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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Transform Your Habits

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Taming Flame

Therisa Peimer

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Our Blue Orange (Godfrey Davis, #1)

A.R. Merrydew

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Child of Another Kind

Steven Decker

4.29

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The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

J.B. Lion

4.32

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Down in the Valley (The Netahs)

Lisa Kaniut Cobb

4.37

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His Forefathers and Mick

Michael G. Kramer

4.36

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Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

K. Ritz

4.33

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