31 Top science fiction books like Stealing for the Sky by Adam Roberts

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Stealing for the Sky

By: Adam Roberts

3.84

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

A blistering science fiction thriller by Adam Roberts with the hardboiled edge of Richard Stark's P…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Stealing for the Sky by Adam Roberts , here is a list of 31 books like this:

Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

1. 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

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  • science fiction
"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)

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2. 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
"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

3. 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
"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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4. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

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  • science fiction
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5. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

6. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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  • science fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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7. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

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  • science fiction
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8. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • science fiction
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9. Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.11

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known… read more

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  • science fiction
"The universe won’t do this to us,’ I whispered to myself. ‘It’s indifferent, but it isn’t actually cruel.’ Perhaps I believed myself, for a moment or two."

-Alastair Reynolds, Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)

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10. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

11. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
Cover of Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) by Nnedi Okorafor

12. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
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13. Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.20

Format: 596 pages, ebook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extr… read more

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  • science fiction
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14. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

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  • science fiction
"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

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15. Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii, #1)

By: Miles Cameron

4.32

Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition

Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships.With their vast cargo holds and… read more

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  • science fiction
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16. 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

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  • science fiction
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17. Prophet

By: Sin Blaché

3.68

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more

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  • science fiction
"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."

-Sin Blaché, Prophet

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18. 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

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  • science fiction
"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

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19. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • science fiction
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20. Ogres

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

A bleak glimpse of a world of savage tyrants, from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky in a bea… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
Cover of Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

21. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1) by Ken MacLeod

22. Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1)

By: Ken MacLeod

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

'An exceptional blend of international politics, hard science, and first contact' Michael Mammay, a… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

23. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

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  • science fiction
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24. Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories

By: qntm

4.34

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, de… read more

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  • science fiction
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25. Descendant Machine (Continuance #2)

By: Gareth L. Powell

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping, fast-paced and fascinating science fiction adventur… read more

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  • science fiction
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26. Stealing for the Sky

By: Adam Roberts

3.84

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

A blistering science fiction thriller by Adam Roberts with the hardboiled edge of Richard Stark's P… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
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27. 36 Streets

By: T.R. Napper

3.95

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this Ditmar and Aurealis award-winning, … read more

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  • science fiction
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28. Beyond the Burn Line

By: Paul McAuley

3.53

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

A novel about posthuman Earth, colonisation, Ufology, and secret histories. It's two hundred thous… read more

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  • science fiction
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29. Plutoshine

By: Lucy Kissick

3.88

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

Terraforming - the megascale-engineering of a planet's surface to one more Earth-like - is now comm… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Beyond the Light Horizon (Lightspeed Trilogy, #3) by Ken MacLeod

30. Beyond the Light Horizon (Lightspeed Trilogy, #3)

By: Ken MacLeod

4.11

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

'IF YOU LIKE SCIENCE FICTION YOU WILL LOVE THIS. . . A ROLLICKING GOOD READ' Scotsman on Beyond the… read more

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  • science fiction
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31. Saturation Point

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella

5 must-read novella books like Stealing for the Sky by Adam Roberts

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How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

James S.A. Corey

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Ogres

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

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Stealing for the Sky

Adam Roberts

3.84

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

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M.R. Carey

4.17

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