23 best-selling science fiction fantasy books like Rosebud by Paul Cornell

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Rosebud

By: Paul Cornell

3.41

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

“An elegant, elegiac examination of identity, fictionality, God and humanity itself”―Tamsyn Muir A…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Rosebud by Paul Cornell , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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2. 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

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • space
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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3. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • space
  • science fiction
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4. You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera #1)

By: Cat Rambo

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Farscape meets The Great British Bake Off in this fantastic space opera You Sexy Thing from former … read more

Similar categories in Cat Rambo's You Sexy Thing (Disco Space Opera #1) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
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5. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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6. 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

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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7. Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

By: K.J. Parker

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

There’s no formal training for battlefield salvage. You just have to pick things up as you go along… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The men of Sirupat weren't fighters because they didn't want to be, and in my book there's no higher praise than that--and that's the main reason, when you come to think of it, why women are so infin…"

-K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

"Where you always go wrong is trying to persuade people with facts and arguments. It's why you can only write comedy. What gets people going is stuff that doesn't mean shit but sounds great. Blood, to…"

-K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

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8. 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

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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9. Ogres

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

A bleak glimpse of a world of savage tyrants, from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky in a bea… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Ogres book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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10. These Prisoning Hills

By: Christopher Rowe

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

These Prisoning Hills is a post-apocalyptic Appalachian "weird fiction" novella by Hugo and Nebula … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Rowe's These Prisoning Hills book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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11. Machine (White Space, #2)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.92

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

In this compelling and addictive novel set in the same universe as the critically acclaimed White S… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's Machine (White Space, #2) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
"People are so complicated."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Then, oh shit, nanotech tentacles."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Sneaky manipulative bundle of code."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Anxiety was a distraction I did not need."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

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12. Driving the Deep (Finder Chronicles, #2)

By: Suzanne Palmer

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From a Hugo Award-winning author comes the second book in this action-packed sci-fi caper, starring… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Palmer's Driving the Deep (Finder Chronicles, #2) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • space
  • science fiction
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13. 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

Similar categories in Cixin Liu's A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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14. 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

Similar categories in Aimee Ogden's Emergent Properties book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • science fiction
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15. Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story

By: M. Rickert

3.39

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awak… read more

Similar categories in M. Rickert's Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer: A Krampus Story book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • novella
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
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16. Under Fortunate Stars

By: Ren Hutchings

3.93

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven's f… read more

Similar categories in Ren Hutchings's Under Fortunate Stars book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • time travel
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
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17. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

By: Eddie Robson

3.91

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as tra… read more

Similar categories in Eddie Robson's Drunk on All Your Strange New Words book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
"We take drug abuse very seriously, Lydia."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"if you can control the stories a culture tells about itself, you can control who they are."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

"There’s a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who’s no longer alive, she’s discovering now, and it is the worst kind."

-Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

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18. Beyond the Reach of Earth (Lightspeed Trilogy, #2)

By: Ken MacLeod

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

THE FERMI ARE AWAKE. With the invention of faster-than-light travel there is nowhere that humani… read more

Similar categories in Ken MacLeod's Beyond the Reach of Earth (Lightspeed Trilogy, #2) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • science fiction
  • time travel
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19. The Death I Gave Him

By: Em X. Liu

3.37

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller Hayden Lichf… read more

Similar categories in Em X. Liu's The Death I Gave Him book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • science fiction
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20. Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #2)

By: Lina Rather

3.81

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita navigate the far reaches of space and challenges of faith in… read more

Similar categories in Lina Rather's Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #2) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
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21. The Scavenger Door (Finder Chronicles, #3)

By: Suzanne Palmer

4.17

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Hugo Award-winning author comes the third book in this action-packed sci-fi caper, starring … read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Palmer's The Scavenger Door (Finder Chronicles, #3) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • space
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
"Sorry if I've inconvenienced you," Fergus said, feeling not sorry at all. "Oh no, not at all!" the agent said, as if there had been no sarcasm in Fergus's words. "Chaos is a delight. Without it, noth…"

-Suzanne Palmer, The Scavenger Door (Finder Chronicles, #3)

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22. Inside Man

By: K.J. Parker

3.72

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

K.J. Parker returns to the amoral world of Prosper's Demon with a wry, sardonic novella that flips … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Inside Man book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Better the devil you know, so allow me to introduce myself: I'm the Devil."

-K.J. Parker, Inside Man

"He looks at me as though he's just bitten an apple in a garden and found me there."

-K.J. Parker, Inside Man

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23. January Fifteenth

By: Rachel Swirsky

3.40

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

“One of the best speculative writers of the last decade.”—John Scalzi January Fifteenth—the day … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Swirsky's January Fifteenth book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
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24. Braking Day

By: Adam Oyebanji

3.98

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

On a generation ship bound for a distant star, one engineer-in-training must discover the secrets a… read more

Similar categories in Adam Oyebanji's Braking Day book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • space
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead by Steve Cole

25. Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead

By: Steve Cole

3.86

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Heralding the multi-platform Time Lord Victorious project, The Knight, the Fool and the Dead is a p… read more

Similar categories in Steve Cole's Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • time travel
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
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26. Pulling the Wings Off Angels

By: K.J. Parker

3.70

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Long ago, a wealthy man stole an angel and hid her in a chapel, where she remains imprisoned to thi… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Pulling the Wings Off Angels book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"There's nothing quite like the scriptures for killing faith stone dead. Actually reading them and thinking about what they said evaporated my belief like spit on a hot stove."

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

"Mercy isn't fair, it means someone getting away with what he did because the Boss feels sorry for him. Justice is fair. Justice puts people in prison. Mercy lets them out again. Of course mercy isn't…"

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

"That's the thing about belief, you can't make yourself do it. It's like falling asleep or being in love. You can lie there all night desperately wanting to go to sleep, and the more you want the more…"

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

"He's perfect, so He must be like us and not a bit like them across the border. He thinks like us, obviously; He likes what we like and hates what we hate, and here's Scripture (recorded, translated, …"

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

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27. Rosebud

By: Paul Cornell

3.41

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

“An elegant, elegiac examination of identity, fictionality, God and humanity itself”―Tamsyn Muir A… read more

Similar categories in Paul Cornell's Rosebud book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • time travel
  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1) by Naomi Kritzer

28. Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1)

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.05

Format: 288 pages, ebook

How much does the internet know about YOU? Because her mom is always on the move, Steph hasn’t … read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Catfishing on CatNet (CatNet, #1) book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • lgbt
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • science fiction
Cover of The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory

29. The Album of Dr. Moreau

By: Daryl Gregory

3.99

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Daryl Gregory's The Album of Dr. Moreau combines the science fiction premise of the famous novel by… read more

Similar categories in Daryl Gregory's The Album of Dr. Moreau book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman

30. The Two Doctors Górski

By: Isaac Fellman

3.44

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Annae, a brilliant graduate student in psychiatric magic and survivor of academic abuse, can’t stop… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Fellman's The Two Doctors Górski book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • lgbt
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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31. Comeuppance Served Cold

By: Marion Deeds

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Seattle, 1929—a bitterly divided city overflowing with wealth, violence, and magic. A respected … read more

Similar categories in Marion Deeds's Comeuppance Served Cold book and Paul Cornell's Rosebud

  • mystery
  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

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3.94

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3.71

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Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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