5 Best science fiction fantasy books like The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8) by Jack McDevitt

Cover of The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8) by Jack McDevitt

The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8)

By: Jack McDevitt

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment in the popular The Academy seri…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8) by Jack McDevitt , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18) by Ellis Peters

1. The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18)

By: Ellis Peters

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

To tie in with the hardcover release of Peters' The Benediction of Brother Cadfael, here is the 18t… read more

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  • fiction

2. Silent Joe

By: T. Jefferson Parker

4.20

Format: 488 pages,

With the horrible remnants of a childhood tragedy forever visible across his otherwise handsome fac… read more

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3. Hand of Evil (Ali Reynolds, #3)

By: J.A. Jance

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

With his hand trapped in the door of a speeding car, a man struggles to remain upright as he's drag… read more

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4. Hell Is Empty (Walt Longmire, #7)

By: Craig Johnson

4.08

Format: 96 pages,

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5. The Ophiuchi Hotline

By: John Varley

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for ex… read more

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6. The Right Side

By: Spencer Quinn

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

LeAnne Hogan went to Afghanistan as a rising star in the military, and came back a much lesser pers… read more

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7. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • 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 Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

8. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

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9. Extinction

By: Douglas Preston

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

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10. Falling Dark

By: Tom Lloyd

3.82

Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the find of a lifetime – an ancient alien spaceship hanging in a forgotten corner of space. Fo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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11. The Object

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.19

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thi… read more

Similar categories in Joshua T. Calvert's The Object book and Jack McDevitt's The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Machine (White Space, #2) by Elizabeth Bear

12. Machine (White Space, #2)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.92

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

In this compelling and addictive novel set in the same universe as the critically acclaimed White S… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • audiobook
"People are so complicated."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Then, oh shit, nanotech tentacles."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Sneaky manipulative bundle of code."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Anxiety was a distraction I did not need."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

Cover of It Ain't Over... (Cole & Srexx, #1) by Robert M. Kerns

13. It Ain't Over... (Cole & Srexx, #1)

By: Robert M. Kerns

4.41

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Buy a planet and disappear...That's all Cole wanted.He spent thirteen years hiding on the fringes o… read more

Similar categories in Robert M. Kerns's It Ain't Over... (Cole & Srexx, #1) book and Jack McDevitt's The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8)

  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • fantasy
Cover of Boundless (The Lost Fleet: Outlands, #1) by Jack Campbell

14. Boundless (The Lost Fleet: Outlands, #1)

By: Jack Campbell

4.32

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary may have saved the Alliance only to destroy it, in this thrilling a… read more

Similar categories in Jack Campbell's Boundless (The Lost Fleet: Outlands, #1) book and Jack McDevitt's The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8)

  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Duel to the Death (Ali Reynolds, #13) by J.A. Jance

15. Duel to the Death (Ali Reynolds, #13)

By: J.A. Jance

4.04

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

After taking down the man responsible for his best friend’s death, Stuart Ramey thinks the case is … read more

Similar categories in J.A. Jance's Duel to the Death (Ali Reynolds, #13) book and Jack McDevitt's The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8)

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8) by Jack McDevitt

16. The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8)

By: Jack McDevitt

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment in the popular The Academy seri… read more

Similar categories in Jack McDevitt's The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8) book and Jack McDevitt's The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • aliens
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mars Anomaly: Hard Science Fiction by Joshua T. Calvert

17. The Mars Anomaly: Hard Science Fiction

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Solar Flare took out the world’s power……nobody could explain why the street lights still g… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Sunken Spaceship (Sunken Spaceship Book 1) by Anthony J. Melchiorri

18. Sunken Spaceship (Sunken Spaceship Book 1)

By: Anthony J. Melchiorri

4.33

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

A crashed starship. An alien creature. Only he can bring it home. Ex-Army paratrooper Griffin “Fin… read more

Similar categories in Anthony J. Melchiorri's Sunken Spaceship (Sunken Spaceship Book 1) book and Jack McDevitt's The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8)

  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Acheron Inheritance (Federation Chronicles #1) by Ken Lozito

19. Acheron Inheritance (Federation Chronicles #1)

By: Ken Lozito

4.49

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

On a dying world along the galactic fringe, Quinton Aldren awakens in the body of an archaic androi… read more

Similar categories in Ken Lozito's Acheron Inheritance (Federation Chronicles #1) book and Jack McDevitt's The Long Sunset (The Academy, #8)

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • space
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

20. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Noumenon Infinity (Noumenon, #2) by Marina J. Lostetter

21. Noumenon Infinity (Noumenon, #2)

By: Marina J. Lostetter

4.02

Format: 572 pages, Kindle Edition

Travel to the remotest reaches of deep space in this wondrous follow-up to the acclaimed Noumenon—a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • audiobook

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Peter Watts

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