6 must-read novels books like Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Cover of Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Walkaway

By: Cory Doctorow

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death. Hubert Vernon Rudolph Cla…

"YA doesn't get librarians fired!"

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"Death is cured! USA! USA! USA!" “This is Canada."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"We can live like it's the first days of a better world, not the like it's the first pages of an Ayn Rand novel. Have this place, but you can't have us. We withdraw our company."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"She was in the zone, a human copressor for a complex system that used machines as a nervous system to wire together the intelligence of a global crowd of people she loved with all her heart."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

If you liked the novels plot in Walkaway by Cory Doctorow , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

1. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.95

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the a… read more

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"Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful efforts keeps us awake."

-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

"Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us."

-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

"Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia."

-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

"It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after."

-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Cover of Version Control by Dexter Palmer

2. Version Control

By: Dexter Palmer

3.72

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But who, in these modern times, slept well?"

-Dexter Palmer, Version Control

"To negotiate is only to attempt to dictate the terms of your own surrender."

-Dexter Palmer, Version Control

"If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was “false,"

-Dexter Palmer, Version Control

"As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes."

-Dexter Palmer, Version Control

Cover of The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton

3. The Abyss Beyond Dreams

By: Peter F. Hamilton

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3) by David Brin

4. The Uplift War (The Uplift Saga, #3)

By: David Brin

3.69

Format: None pages,

Billions of years ago, an alien race known as the Progenitors began the genetically engineered tech… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3) by Jack McDevitt

5. Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)

By: Jack McDevitt

3.66

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Barnes & Noble Review Alex Benedict and his executive assistant, Chase Kolpath -- ambitious ant… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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6. A Talent for War (Alex Benedict, #1)

By: Jack McDevitt

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Christopher Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a rag-tag group of misfits into th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Killashandra (Crystal Singer #2) by Anne McCaffrey

7. Killashandra (Crystal Singer #2)

By: Anne McCaffrey

4.40

Format: None pages,

At first Killashandra Ree's ambitions to become a Crystal Singer, get rich, and forget her past, we… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

8. Hominids (Neanderthal Parallax, #1)

By: Robert J. Sawyer

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Neanderthals have developed a radically different civilization on a parallel Earth. A Neanderthal p… read more

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9. 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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10. When Gravity Fails

By: George Alec Effinger

4.60

Format: None pages,

In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the … read more

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11. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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

12. 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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13. 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
  • novels
"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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14. 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

Cover of Gods of Another Kind (Another Kind, #3) by Steven Decker

15. Gods of Another Kind (Another Kind, #3)

By: Steven Decker

4.39

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Something is very wrong in the birthplace of humanity. Luckily, it’s not Earth. Earth Station has … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Against the Machine: Evolution by Brian Van Norman

16. Against the Machine: Evolution

By: Brian Van Norman

4.33

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Earth, 2212: The novel, third in the Against The Machine trilogy, yet free standing on its own, tel… read more

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  • science fiction
"Manager Mangione,"

-Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

"What’s your business, Sir?"

-Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

"Why is your species so dissatisfied?"

-Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

"Rule # 1: keep the crowd’s interest."

-Brian Van Norman, Against the Machine: Evolution

Cover of The Girl with the Porcelain Lips (Godfrey Davis, #2) by A.R. Merrydew

17. The Girl with the Porcelain Lips (Godfrey Davis, #2)

By: A.R. Merrydew

4.32

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Following on from 'Our Blue Orange', 'The Girl with the Porcelain Lips' continues the story. The de… read more

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  • novels
"My name is Jenny,’ the prototype curtly informed Theodore, with a stance that advertised her statement to perfection."

-A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips (Godfrey Davis, #2)

"And Tarquin,’ Semilla said quietly. ‘He has been in league with them all along?’ ‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed."

-A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips (Godfrey Davis, #2)

"     ‘And Tarquin,’ Semilla said quietly. ‘He has been in league with them all along?’ ‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed."

-A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips (Godfrey Davis, #2)

"The machines were simple and harmless, developed by a human genius who set in motion something, which ultimately had far reaching consequences."

-A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips (Godfrey Davis, #2)

Cover of A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays by Cixin Liu

18. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

19. Walkaway

By: Cory Doctorow

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic tale of revolution, love, post-scarcity, and the end of death. Hubert Vernon Rudolph Cla… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's Walkaway book and Cory Doctorow's Walkaway

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"YA doesn't get librarians fired!"

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"Death is cured! USA! USA! USA!" “This is Canada."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"We can live like it's the first days of a better world, not the like it's the first pages of an Ayn Rand novel. Have this place, but you can't have us. We withdraw our company."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

"She was in the zone, a human copressor for a complex system that used machines as a nervous system to wire together the intelligence of a global crowd of people she loved with all her heart."

-Cory Doctorow, Walkaway

Cover of Escape from Incel Island by Margaret Killjoy

20. Escape from Incel Island

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.89

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a golden opportunity: any… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's Escape from Incel Island book and Cory Doctorow's Walkaway

  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of The Factory Witches of Lowell by C.S. Malerich

21. The Factory Witches of Lowell

By: C.S. Malerich

3.33

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

C. S. Malerich's The Factory Witches of Lowell is a riveting historical fantasy about witches going… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You don't know women, do you? They'll last for weeks on spite alone."

-C.S. Malerich, The Factory Witches of Lowell

"All magic is mastery and command, isn't it? You have to have a claim to something before you can cast spells over it, even your own self."

-C.S. Malerich, The Factory Witches of Lowell

"Flog them, hang them, drown them like rats. It won’t change the facts: we are the ones who poured our sweat and souls into your looms. We have rights to expect a little loyalty."

-C.S. Malerich, The Factory Witches of Lowell

"We were crushed’ said Judith; ‘for lack of resolution more than lack of numbers. A strike is nothing if a worker may pledge herself to it today and return to the factory tomorrow. So we gather here; …"

-C.S. Malerich, The Factory Witches of Lowell

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Peter F. Hamilton

4.20

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David Brin

3.69

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Jack McDevitt

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Sheena Billett

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Andri E. Elia

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Frank Lambert

4.40

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