6 Top epic fantasy books like Aspects by John M. Ford

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Aspects

By: John M. Ford

3.89

Format: None pages, None

"The best writer in America, bar none."—Robert JordanAt last, the final work of John M. Ford—one of…

"We can misspend time - hurting people, ourselves included, making the world worse - but to 'waste' time - to get no motion at all, good or bad - to do that one would have to not be alive at all."

-John M. Ford, Aspects

If you liked the epic fantasy plot in Aspects by John M. Ford , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature by Edward  James, Farah Mendlesohn

1. The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

By: Edward James , Farah Mendlesohn

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be f… read more

Similar categories in Edward James's The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
Cover of Forest of Memory by Mary Robinette Kowal

2. Forest of Memory

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

Katya deals in Authenticities and Captures, trading on nostalgia for a past long gone. Her clients … read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's Forest of Memory book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. 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 John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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 The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) by Malka Ann Older

4. 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 John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12) by Lois McMaster Bujold

5. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12) book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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6. The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

By: Katherine Addison

4.32

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Addison's The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2) book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • steampunk
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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7. Into the Narrowdark (The Last King of Osten Ard, #3)

By: Tad Williams

4.54

Format: 580 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling world of Osten Ard returns in the third Last King of Osten Ard novel… read more

Similar categories in Tad Williams's Into the Narrowdark (The Last King of Osten Ard, #3) book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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8. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2) book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • magic
  • epic fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16) by Steven Brust

10. Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16)

By: Steven Brust

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

First comes love. Then comes marriage… Vlad Taltos is in love. With a former assassin who may ju… read more

Similar categories in Steven Brust's Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16) book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Too much weird at once and you just gotta take what piece of it you can and deal with that, worry about the rest later."

-Steven Brust, Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16)

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11. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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12. Illuminations: Stories

By: Alan Moore

3.53

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a se… read more

Similar categories in Alan Moore's Illuminations: Stories book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of comp…"

-Alan Moore, Illuminations: Stories

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13. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

Similar categories in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3) by Robert Jackson Bennett

14. Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.04

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

A god wages war—using all of humanity as its pawns—in the unforgettable conclusion to the Founders … read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3) book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • epic fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"It'll just go on. More fixes gone awry. The mad pride of men who think themselves engineers of all creation."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

"No. There are people in this world who learned the lessons I never did, the lessons that our son has learned all too late - that you are right. There is no magic fix. That a better world can only be …"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

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15. A Half-Built Garden

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the… read more

Similar categories in Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"They're nothing but dangerous questions."

-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

Cover of Aspects by John M. Ford

16. Aspects

By: John M. Ford

3.89

Format: None pages, None

"The best writer in America, bar none."—Robert JordanAt last, the final work of John M. Ford—one of… read more

Similar categories in John M. Ford's Aspects book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • epic fantasy
  • steampunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"We can misspend time - hurting people, ourselves included, making the world worse - but to 'waste' time - to get no motion at all, good or bad - to do that one would have to not be alive at all."

-John M. Ford, Aspects

Cover of Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1) by A. Deborah Baker

17. Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

By: A. Deborah Baker

3.69

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

If you trust her you’ll never make it home… Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is… read more

Similar categories in A. Deborah Baker's Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1) book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It's better to forget a home than to lose it,"

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"Frightened means you've the sense to be afraid, and it's cowards who get things done, more often than not."

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know."

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

"It's fine not knowing things. Not knowing things means you have room to learn, and learning's about the most important thing there is,"

-A. Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall (The Up-and-Under, #1)

Cover of Empire of Grass (The Last King of Osten Ard, #2) by Tad Williams

18. Empire of Grass (The Last King of Osten Ard, #2)

By: Tad Williams

4.38

Format: 1255 pages, ebook

Following on from The Witchwood Crown, Empire of Grass: Book Two of The Last King of Osten Ard cont… read more

Similar categories in Tad Williams's Empire of Grass (The Last King of Osten Ard, #2) book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The strong never need to silence the weak, or they prove that they are the truly weak ones."

-Tad Williams, Empire of Grass (The Last King of Osten Ard, #2)

" Summer's End Cruel orb, my foe, the sun, Glaring upon things I never want to see again The proud, lightning-limbed oaks Of Hekhasor The shimmering blue waters of Silverhome's lake And the endless, e…"

-Tad Williams, Empire of Grass (The Last King of Osten Ard, #2)

Cover of Pulling the Wings Off Angels by K.J. Parker

19. Pulling the Wings Off Angels

By: K.J. Parker

3.70

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Long ago, a wealthy man stole an angel and hid her in a chapel, where she remains imprisoned to thi… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Pulling the Wings Off Angels book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"There's nothing quite like the scriptures for killing faith stone dead. Actually reading them and thinking about what they said evaporated my belief like spit on a hot stove."

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

"Mercy isn't fair, it means someone getting away with what he did because the Boss feels sorry for him. Justice is fair. Justice puts people in prison. Mercy lets them out again. Of course mercy isn't…"

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

"That's the thing about belief, you can't make yourself do it. It's like falling asleep or being in love. You can lie there all night desperately wanting to go to sleep, and the more you want the more…"

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

"He's perfect, so He must be like us and not a bit like them across the border. He thinks like us, obviously; He likes what we like and hates what we hate, and here's Scripture (recorded, translated, …"

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

Cover of Warrior of the Altaii by Robert Jordan

20. Warrior of the Altaii

By: Robert Jordan

3.63

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Draw near and listen, or else time is at an end. The watering holes of the Plain are drying up, … read more

Similar categories in Robert Jordan's Warrior of the Altaii book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • epic fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Friend Zone Experiment by Zen Cho

21. The Friend Zone Experiment

By: Zen Cho

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the outside, Renee Goh’s life looks perfect. She’s thirty and beautiful, runs a glamorous―and … read more

Similar categories in Zen Cho's The Friend Zone Experiment book and John M. Ford's Aspects

  • adult
  • fiction

20 Best fiction books like Aspects by John M. Ford

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Forest of Memory

Mary Robinette Kowal

5.00

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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

Malka Ann Older

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

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Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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John Scalzi

4.16

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