22 must-read fantasy books like Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers by Bryan Thomas Schmidt

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Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers

By: Bryan Thomas Schmidt

4.13

Format: 632 pages, Kindle Edition

The second volume of short science fiction anthology. 26 stories from series such as Confederation…

If you liked the fantasy plot in Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers by Bryan Thomas Schmidt , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz

1. The Cybernetic Tea Shop

By: Meredith Katz

3.90

Format: 205 pages, ebook

Clara Gutierrez is a highly-skilled technician specializing in the popular 'Raise' AI companions. H… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt

2. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

By: None

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space--and one adventurous young explorer who d… read more

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3. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, follow… read more

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4. The Tar-Aiym Krang (Pip & Flinx #1)

By: Alan Dean Foster

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings -- two great golden clouds suspended in space … read more

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5. Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

By: None , Becky Chambers

4.12

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are fr… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"We're our own warning."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice."

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"If you never leave, you'll always wonder.  You'll wonder what your life could've been, if you did the right thing. Well... scratch that. You'll always wonder if you did the right thing, no matter wha…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

"We are the wealthiest species alive today. We want for nothing. Without us, there would be no tunnels, no ambi, no galactic map. But we achieved these things through subjugation. Violence. We destroy…"

-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

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

6. 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
  • lgbt
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

7. 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 fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"(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)

Cover of The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4) by Becky  Chambers

8. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 336 pages, ebook

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has g… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the ea…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Then, what is your reason?' 'I don't know!' Pei rubbed her face in frustration. 'There is no reason why I don't want to do this! I'm healthy! I'm clearly capable! Everybody I know who's ever gone to …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something t…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

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9. 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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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"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 The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) by Malka Ann Older

10. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) by Nghi Vo

11. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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12. On the Fox Roads

By: Nghi Vo

4.04

Format: 29 pages, ebook

While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's On the Fox Roads book and Bryan Thomas Schmidt's Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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13. 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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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8) by Seanan McGuire

14. Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.32

Format: 208 pages, ebook

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"They needed to know because a choice you make without knowing the consequences isn't any choice at all!"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"They have hearts. I can feel them beating. So I will build them a home and haven, as none was built for me, and I will care for them as long as I am able."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Then you found a door that said to be sure, and you were sure, you were already sure, you were so sure that when you tried the knob, it wasn't locked, and you could walk right through."

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

"Some children need to escape from places that will only hurt them, or grind them away until they're nothing. And some children need to go somewhere else if they're ever going to grow into the people …"

-Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found (Wayward Children, #8)

Cover of Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) by Martha Wells

15. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

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16. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

By: Becky Chambers

4.20

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Cover of Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

17. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
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18. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

19. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
Cover of Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) by Nghi Vo

20. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu

21. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

By: Samit Basu

3.59

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rul… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"You exist, and you deserve to belong."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else"

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"It's all very clear, I just chose not to get it, I just decided everyone who didn't agree with my vision was lying, or a fool."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"I don't want to talk about this. It's not that I think you're wrong, but it's too big for me. I'll never be able to do anything about it."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

Cover of A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Becky  Chambers

22. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."

-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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23. And Put Away Childish Things

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bodie’s been called into the delightful fantasy world of his grandmother’s beloved children’s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Ah, yes, hindsight, always my weapon of choice."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes there's a place where fiction and reality meet. Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes a wardrobe is just a wardrobe. Sometimes books are just books. That's why we call it fiction."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

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24. Emergent Properties

By: Aimee Ogden

3.57

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brew… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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25. Floating Hotel

By: Grace Curtis

3.70

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery … read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
Cover of What Price Victory? (Honor Harrington - Worlds of Honor Book 7) by David Weber

26. What Price Victory? (Honor Harrington - Worlds of Honor Book 7)

By: David Weber

4.34

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

THE HOTTEST MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OF ALL TIME CONTINUES WITH A COLLECTION OF TALES SET IN… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
Cover of Antimatter Blues (Mickey7, #2) by Edward Ashton

27. 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

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  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
Cover of Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers by Bryan Thomas Schmidt

28. Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers

By: Bryan Thomas Schmidt

4.13

Format: 632 pages, Kindle Edition

The second volume of short science fiction anthology. 26 stories from series such as Confederation… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Thomas Schmidt's Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers book and Bryan Thomas Schmidt's Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
Cover of The Vela (The Vela #1) by Yoon Ha Lee

29. The Vela (The Vela #1)

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.80

Format: 385 pages, ebook

In the fading light of a dying star, a soldier for hire searches for a missing refugee ship and unc… read more

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  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
Cover of Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky

30. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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31. New Adventures in Space Opera

By: Jonathan Strahan

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Have you ever wanted a faster-than-light trip to the future? Are you tired of reading science ficti… read more

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  • space opera
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction

28 best-selling fiction books like Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers by Bryan Thomas Schmidt

Transform Your Habits

The Cybernetic Tea Shop

Meredith Katz

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)

None , Becky Chambers

4.12

Transform Your Habits

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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10 Best fiction books like What Price Victory? (Honor Harrington - Worlds of Honor Book 7) by David Weber

Transform Your Habits

In Our Stars (The Doomed Earth, #1)

Jack Campbell

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Implacable (The Lost Fleet: Outlands #3)

Jack Campbell

4.40

Transform Your Habits

1637: The Transylvanian Decision (Ring of Fire Book 35)

Eric Flint

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Salvage Right (Liaden Universe, #25)

Sharon Lee

4.66

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