19 best-selling science fiction books like A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker

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A Song for a New Day

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.97

Format: 384 pages, ebook

In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illeg…

"She understood: sometimes the performance was the music, and vice versa, and the two couldn't be separated."

-Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

If you liked the science fiction plot in A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Among Others

By: Jo Walton

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"I like her. She's restful."

-Jo Walton, Among Others

"I wish magic was more dramatic"

-Jo Walton, Among Others

"Trees are what paper was, and wants to be."

-Jo Walton, Among Others

"I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day."

-Jo Walton, Among Others

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2. All the Birds in the Sky

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.59

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways un… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What was worse, being crazy or being evil?"

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

"Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises."

-Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

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3. Stations of the Tide

By: Michael Swanwick

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When a strange magician and renegade scientist steals the secrets that could save a distant planet … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"Doveva trovarsi sopra gli scavi archeologici, pensò. Un ottavo di miglio quadrato che era stato ancorato nella roccia sottostante con degli stabilizzatori dopo aver sepolto nel suo cuore almeno tre s…"

-Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide

"Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, hav…"

-Michael Swanwick, Stations of the Tide

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4. Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore, #1)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Eifelheim

By: Michael Flynn

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary hi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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6. No Enemy But Time

By: Michael Bishop

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Joshua Kampa, the illegitimate son of a mute Spanish whore and a black serviceman, has always dream… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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7. The Quantum Rose (Saga of the Skolian Empire, #6)

By: Catherine Asaro

3.29

Format: 80 pages,

Dies ist die Geschichte von Kamoj Argali, der jungen Regentin einer verarmten Provinz, die auf eine… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

8. Rite of Passage

By: Alexei Panshin

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

In 2198, one hundred and fifty years after the desperate wars that destroyed an overpopulated Earth… read more

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9. The Terminal Experiment

By: Robert J. Sawyer

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

To test his theories of immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electr… read more

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10. The Speed of Dark

By: Elizabeth Moon

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed a… read more

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11. Powers (Annals of the Western Shore, #3)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "re… read more

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12. A Time of Changes

By: Robert Silverberg

4.08

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds… read more

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13. Man Plus (Man Plus #1)

By: Frederik Pohl

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biologica… read more

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14. Timescape

By: Gregory Benford , None

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

The author of Tides of Light offers his Nebula Award-winning SF classic--a combination of hard scie… read more

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15. The Healer's War

By: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A novel of the Vietnam War, with a magical, mystical twist. Lt. Kitty McCulley, a young and inexper… read more

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16. Camouflage

By: Joe Haldeman

3.80

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The Changeling has survived by adapting the forms of … read more

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17. Slow River

By: Nicola Griffith

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still … read more

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18. Darwin's Children (Darwin's Radio #2)

By: Greg Bear

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Greg Bear's Nebula Award-winning novel, Darwin's Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on… read more

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19. Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio #1)

By: Greg Bear

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Molecular biologist Kaye Lang's theory--that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can retu… read more

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20. 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
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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21. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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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22. 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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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
"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

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23. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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24. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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25. 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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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
Cover of A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) by P. Djèlí Clark

26. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.03

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more

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  • science fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

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27. 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

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • queer
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28. 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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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science 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

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29. A Half-Built Garden

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
"They're nothing but dangerous questions."

-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

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30. A Song for a New Day

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.97

Format: 384 pages, ebook

In this captivating science fiction novel from an award-winning author, public gatherings are illeg… read more

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  • music
  • audiobook
  • post apocalyptic
  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • queer
"She understood: sometimes the performance was the music, and vice versa, and the two couldn't be separated."

-Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook

19 Best fiction books like A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker

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Jo Walton

3.71

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3.59

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Michael Swanwick

3.68

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4.22

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4.09

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