30 must-read fiction books like Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection by Emma Newman

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Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

By: Emma Newman

3.96

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to her Planetfall universe with a collection of ten short stor…

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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
  • space
  • 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)

2. China Mountain Zhang

By: None

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

With this groundbreaking novel, Maureen F. McHugh established herself as one of the decade's best s… read more

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3. The Cloud Roads (Books of the Raksura, #1)

By: Martha Wells

3.97

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Moon has spent his life hiding what he is — a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's The Cloud Roads (Books of the Raksura, #1) book and Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

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

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

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

5. 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

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  • science fiction
  • space
  • fiction
  • 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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6. 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
  • space
  • fiction
  • 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

7. 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
  • 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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8. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

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

9. 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

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction by Ann Leckie

10. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

By: Ann Leckie

4.05

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction book and Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

12. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

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

13. 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

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) book and Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

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

14. 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

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) book and Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) by M.R. Carey

15. 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
  • space
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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
  • space
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

18. 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

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. 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

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  • science fiction
  • space
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3) book and Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

  • science fiction
  • space
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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

Similar categories in Ken MacLeod's Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1) book and Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

  • science fiction
  • space
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Generation Ship by Michael Mammay

23. Generation Ship

By: Michael Mammay

3.83

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

In this riveting, stand-alone novel from Michael Mammay, author of  Planetside,  the beginning of a… read more

Similar categories in Michael Mammay's Generation Ship book and Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

  • science fiction
  • space
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed

24. And What Can We Offer You Tonight

By: Premee Mohamed

3.60

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Descendant Machine (Continuance #2) by Gareth L.   Powell

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
  • space
  • fiction
Cover of Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection by Emma Newman

26. Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

By: Emma Newman

3.96

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to her Planetfall universe with a collection of ten short stor… read more

Similar categories in Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection book and Emma Newman's Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection

  • collections
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Liberty's Daughter by Naomi Kritzer

27. Liberty's Daughter

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of I Am AI: A Novelette by Ai Jiang

28. I Am AI: A Novelette

By: Ai Jiang

4.11

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to su… read more

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

29. 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
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2) by M.R. Carey

30. 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

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

31. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space
  • fiction
  • audiobook

23 must-read audiobook books like Before, After, Alone: A Planetfall Universe short story collection by Emma Newman

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

Mur Lafferty

3.94

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18 Best fiction books like Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

Cory Doctorow

4.13

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