20 must-read science fiction books like Providence by Max Barry

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Providence

By: Max Barry

3.86

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, inventive, and thought-provoking new novel from the ingenious author of Jennifer Govern…

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1. Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

By: C. Robert Cargill

4.05

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evo… read more

Similar categories in C. Robert Cargill's Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1) book and Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction fantasy
  • artificial intelligence
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"America wasn’t its people,"

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

"People liked to believe in magic."

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

"No thinking thing should be another thing's property."

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

"But I had to dream. I had to hope. Even if it made me the fool of this particular tale."

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

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2. The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and stagger… read more

Similar categories in Tom Sweterlitsch's The Gone World book and Max Barry's Providence

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

3. 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 Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • 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)

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4. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

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5. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) book and Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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6. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

By: Edward Ashton

3.75

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) book and Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"

-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

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7. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence book and Max Barry's Providence

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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8. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Ghost Station book and Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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9. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and Max Barry's Providence

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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10. Rubicon

By: J.S. Dewes

3.93

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

Sergeant Adrienne Valero wants to die. She can't. After enduring a traumatic resurrection for th… read more

Similar categories in J.S. Dewes's Rubicon book and Max Barry's Providence

  • space opera
  • artificial intelligence
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Mal Goes to War: A Novel by Edward Ashton

11. 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 Max Barry's Providence

  • artificial intelligence
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and Max Barry's Providence

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

Cover of Providence by Max Barry

13. Providence

By: Max Barry

3.86

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, inventive, and thought-provoking new novel from the ingenious author of Jennifer Govern… read more

Similar categories in Max Barry's Providence book and Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • artificial intelligence
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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14. Paradise-1

By: David Wellington

3.83

Format: 681 pages, Paperback

When Special Agent Petrov and Dr. Lei Zhang are woken up from cryogenic sleep, dragged freezing and… read more

Similar categories in David Wellington's Paradise-1 book and Max Barry's Providence

  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2) by Edward Ashton

15. Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2)

By: Edward Ashton

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and m… read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2) book and Max Barry's Providence

  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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16. Vessel

By: Lisa A. Nichols

3.45

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

An astronaut returns to Earth after losing her entire crew to an inexplicable disaster, but is her … read more

Similar categories in Lisa A. Nichols's Vessel book and Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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17. The Last Human

By: Zack Jordan

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Most days, Sarya doesn't feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. Most days, she's got… read more

Similar categories in Zack Jordan's The Last Human book and Max Barry's Providence

  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"Order is unnatural," it says. "It costs energy to maintain. Disorder, on the other hand, happens all by itself."

-Zack Jordan, The Last Human

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18. Child Zero

By: Chris Holm

3.63

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

From molecular biologist turned Anthony Award-winning author of THE KILLING KIND comes a fact-based… read more

Similar categories in Chris Holm's Child Zero book and Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2) by M.R. Carey

19. 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 Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • audiobook
Cover of Gate Crashers by Patrick S. Tomlinson

20. Gate Crashers

By: Patrick S. Tomlinson

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

On humanity’s first extra-solar mission, the exploration vessel Magellan discovers an alien constru… read more

Similar categories in Patrick S. Tomlinson's Gate Crashers book and Max Barry's Providence

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • artificial intelligence
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • audiobook
"There are only two ways a child saddled with a name like Maximus Tiberius turns out. He either becomes confidence personified, or he ends up trapped inside the name like a cruel irony. This child, wh…"

-Patrick S. Tomlinson, Gate Crashers

"You're just going to have to accept that people are *never* ready in times like these. Page-turners and bolt-tighteners always demand more time than external forces permit. That's your job. My job is…"

-Patrick S. Tomlinson, Gate Crashers

20 must-read fiction books like Providence by Max Barry

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Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

C. Robert Cargill

4.05

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The Gone World

Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

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Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

M.R. Carey

4.17

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Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

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