23 Best science fiction books like Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi

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Summerland

By: Hannu Rajaniemi

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is …

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1. Distrust That Particular Flavor

By: William Gibson

3.81

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking firs… read more

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  • audiobook
"Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting."

-William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

"Singaporeans seemed generally quite loathe to discuss these more intimate policies of government with a curious foreign visitor who was more than twice as tall as the average human, and who sweated s…"

-William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

"Bugis Street, once famous for its transvestite prostitutes - the sort of place where one could have imagined Noel Coward, ripped on opium, cocaine and the local tailoring, just off his rickshaw for a…"

-William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

"I have often raised an eyebrow at hearing him sing, as I push a cart down some Safeway aisle, of the spiritual complexities induced by he admixture of Cuervo Gold, cocaine, and nineteen-year-old girl…"

-William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

Cover of Fiasco by Stanisław Lem, Michael Kandel

2. Fiasco

By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

The planet Quinta is pocked by ugly mounds and covered by a spiderweb-like network. It is a kingdom… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence."

-Stanisław Lem, Fiasco

"Творець не хотів таких експедицій, такого "спілкування цивілізацій", і тому розділив їх безоднями. А ми ж не тільки зробили з райського яблука компот, а вже пиляємо Дерево Пізнання..."

-Stanisław Lem, Fiasco

"It was not that the ocean depths served the creatures there with darkness, to protect them from attack--a darkness they could light, as they needed, with luminescence--but vice versa: the darkness ga…"

-Stanisław Lem, Fiasco

"Purpose informed every scene on Earth, the planet that produced life, because every detail there had its "benefit," its teleology. True, it did not always--but billions of years of organic labor had …"

-Stanisław Lem, Fiasco

Cover of The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3) by Ada Palmer

3. The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3)

By: Ada Palmer

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A political SF epic of extraordinary audacity. The long years of near-utopia have come to an abr… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Complacency is the enemy, Mycroft, not xenophobia. An old phoenix needs burning"

-Ada Palmer, The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3)

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4. Everything Belongs to the Future

By: Laurie Penny

3.54

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Railsea by China Miéville

5. Railsea

By: China Miéville

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Hardcover

On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarp… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Gilded Cage (Dark Gifts, #1) by Vic James

6. Gilded Cage (Dark Gifts, #1)

By: Vic James

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power--and you. If you're … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Queen of Candesce (Virga, #2) by Karl Schroeder

7. Queen of Candesce (Virga, #2)

By: Karl Schroeder

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Venera Fanning was last seen falling into nothingness at the end of Sun of Suns. Now, in Queen of C… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Song for the Basilisk by Patricia A. McKillip

8. Song for the Basilisk

By: Patricia A. McKillip

4.50

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

As a child, Rook had been taken in by the bards of Luly, and raised as one of their own. Of his pas… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

9. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • 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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10. Skybreaker (Matt Cruse, #2)

By: Kenneth Oppel

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

A legendary ghost ship. An incredible treasure. A death-defying adventure. Forty years ago, the air… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota, #2) by Ada Palmer

11. Seven Surrenders (Terra Ignota, #2)

By: Ada Palmer

4.06

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The second book of Terra Ignota, a political SF epic of extraordinary audacity. It is a world in wh… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

12. Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile

By: Nate Jackson

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

An unvarnished and uncensored account of quotidian life in the NFL from one of the best writers to … read more

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13. Witch's Business

By: Diana Wynne Jones

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

They're in the "revenge" business Jess and Frank's father has stopped their allowances for four who… read more

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14. The Prefect (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his … read more

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15. Star Eater

By: Kerstin Hall

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

All martyrdoms are difficult. Elfreda Raughn will avoid pregnancy if it kills her, and one way o… read more

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

16. 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 fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"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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17. 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 fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2) by Alastair Reynolds

18. Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.07

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic hu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The place is of no concern to them. They've left it to fester. An informational dead zone. The abstraction doesn't penetrate here, by design. The dome rebuffs it. The family craved their privacy, the…"

-Alastair Reynolds, Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #2)

Cover of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s by Rob Harvilla

19. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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

20. 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 fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. Walking to Aldebaran

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Chilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Angel Mage

By: Garth Nix

3.63

Format: 576 pages, ebook

More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Rain Heron

By: Robbie Arnott

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slop… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. Shadow Captain

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.81

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down mo… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts

25. The Freeze-Frame Revolution

By: Peter Watts

3.95

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when you… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We're dead anyway, all we get to choose is the exit strategy."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Don't feel too bad. Everyone's in chains here. Eriophora's a slave ship. We cavemen are shackled by our need for air and food and water, by the disorienting discontinuity of lives cut into slices spr…"

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Nothing's immortal on a road trip of a billion years. The universe runs down in stop-motion around you, your backups' backups' backups need backups. Not even the error-correcting replication strategi…"

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

Cover of Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor by Steven Moffat

26. Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

By: Steven Moffat

4.44

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Discover the new Doctor Who classics. When the entire universe is at stake, three different Doc… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Fear is only a disadvantage if you want to attack-it's brilliant if all you want to do is run away."

-Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

"Fear is only a disadvantage if you want to attack-it's brilliant if all you want to di is run away."

-Steven Moffat, Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

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27. The Splinter in the Sky

By: Kemi Ashing-Giwa

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) about a … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien

28. Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072

By: M.E. O'Brien

4.15

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi

29. Summerland

By: Hannu Rajaniemi

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is … read more

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  • espionage
  • ghosts
  • science fiction fantasy
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah  Brooks

30. The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

By: Sarah Brooks

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand e… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Beyond the Dragon's Gate by Yoon Ha Lee

31. Beyond the Dragon's Gate

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.73

Format: 20 pages, ebook

Former Academician Anna Kim’s research into AI cost her everything. Now, years later, the military … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

26 must-read fiction books like Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi

Transform Your Habits

Fiasco

Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel

4.10

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The Will to Battle (Terra Ignota, #3)

Ada Palmer

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Everything Belongs to the Future

Laurie Penny

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Railsea

China Miéville

4.00

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Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)

Greg Egan

4.39

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Ship of Fools

Richard Paul Russo

4.18

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Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)

Stephen Baxter

4.57

Troika

Alastair Reynolds

3.50

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