20 Best fiction books like How to Mars by David Ebenbach

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How to Mars

By: David Ebenbach

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality television nightmare? This debut science-…

"We have been told that this is what it means to be alive."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"Holding hands in spacesuits is not very much like holding actual hands, but it's something."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"What you have here is a women who's travelled more than a hundred millions miles in order to become, I guess, a biologist with no bio to ology"

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"What do you think it means?" she says in a low, conspiratorial voice. "What do YOU think it means?" I say. It's an old psychologist move, that one."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

If you liked the fiction plot in How to Mars by David Ebenbach , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

1. I Am the Cheese

By: Robert Cormier

3.77

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Adam Farmer is on a journey - he has to get to Rutterburg with a parcel for his father. But as he t… read more

Similar categories in Robert Cormier's I Am the Cheese book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • fiction
"He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the j…"

-Robert Cormier, I Am the Cheese

Cover of A Brewing Storm (Derrick Storm, #1) by Richard Castle

2. A Brewing Storm (Derrick Storm, #1)

By: Richard Castle

3.70

Format: 83 pages, ebook

The first piece of the Derrick Storm trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Cast… read more

Similar categories in Richard Castle's A Brewing Storm (Derrick Storm, #1) book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • adult
  • fiction
"As Toppers rose from her seat on a sofa to meet him, Storm realized that he was looking at an architectural marvel. She weighed less than a hundred pounds and was under five feet tall, but she was so…"

-Richard Castle, A Brewing Storm (Derrick Storm, #1)

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3. Carthago

By: Christophe Bec , Milan Jovanović

3.97

Format: 384 pages,

The megalodon, the prehistoric ancestor of the great white shark was the most ferocious predator of… read more

Similar categories in Christophe Bec's Carthago book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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4. Redshirts

By: John Scalzi

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Redshirts book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • humor
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

Cover of Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) by Mur Lafferty

5. 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 David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
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6. The Paradox Hotel

By: Rob Hart

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. Jan… read more

Similar categories in Rob Hart's The Paradox Hotel book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The reason humans process pain by inflicting it on others is because it’s a really shitty and childish way of asking for help."

-Rob Hart, The Paradox Hotel

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7. A Rover's Story

By: Jasmine Warga

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Warga's A Rover's Story book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction
  • space
  • fiction
Cover of Mal Goes to War: A Novel by Edward Ashton

8. Mal Goes to War: A Novel

By: Edward Ashton

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and… read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mal Goes to War: A Novel book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction
  • humor
  • adult
  • fiction
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9. 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 David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
Cover of A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

10. A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

By: Sylvain Neuvel

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a scfi thriller reminiscent of B… read more

Similar categories in Sylvain Neuvel's A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1) book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"It's like a choice, but with fewer options."

-Sylvain Neuvel, A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)

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11. Escape Velocity

By: Victor Manibo

3.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Space Habitat Altaire is the premier luxury resort in low Earth orbit, playground of the privileged… read more

Similar categories in Victor Manibo's Escape Velocity book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
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12. The Apocalypse Seven

By: Gene Doucette

3.83

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whatever. The whateverpocalypse. That’s w… read more

Similar categories in Gene Doucette's The Apocalypse Seven book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Triple Sec

By: T.J. Alexander

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A jaded bartender is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this fresh and sizzling polyamorous rom… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Alexander's Triple Sec book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • adult
  • fiction
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14. Wilderness Reform

By: Matt Query

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The authors of the “impossible to put down” (The Guardian) thriller Old Country return with a terri… read more

Similar categories in Matt Query's Wilderness Reform book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi

15. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

By: Azar Nafisi

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power… read more

Similar categories in Azar Nafisi's Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • adult
"To be a victim is to abdicate responsibility, to in effect give up most of all on yourself."

-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

"Poetry was a way to combat the staid and formulaic language of politicians that opposed the flexible and dynamic language of poets and writers."

-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

"...it is not true that we all want the freedom of knowledge, because it comes at a high price. It comes with pain and loneliness; it demands commitment and responsibility."

-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

"In democratic societies, we do not normally resort to physical violence to muffle those with ideas, but we do use other forms of violence: prejudice, censorship, and slander."

-Azar Nafisi, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Cover of How to Mars by David Ebenbach

16. How to Mars

By: David Ebenbach

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality television nightmare? This debut science-… read more

Similar categories in David Ebenbach's How to Mars book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"We have been told that this is what it means to be alive."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"Holding hands in spacesuits is not very much like holding actual hands, but it's something."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"What you have here is a women who's travelled more than a hundred millions miles in order to become, I guess, a biologist with no bio to ology"

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"What do you think it means?" she says in a low, conspiratorial voice. "What do YOU think it means?" I say. It's an old psychologist move, that one."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

Cover of In the Quick by Kate Hope Day

17. In the Quick

By: Kate Hope Day

3.38

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention who leaves home to begi… read more

Similar categories in Kate Hope Day's In the Quick book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
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18. Unity

By: Elly Bangs

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Evoking the grittiness of Mad Max and the idealism of Sense8, this absorbing sci-fi debut is a dyna… read more

Similar categories in Elly Bangs's Unity book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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19. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Unbalancing by R.B. Lemberg

20. The Unbalancing

By: R.B. Lemberg

4.08

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

New love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save… read more

Similar categories in R.B. Lemberg's The Unbalancing book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell

21. Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories

By: Tobias S. Buckell

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Traffic is piling up, and strange things are heading your way in this new collection by World Fanta… read more

Similar categories in Tobias S. Buckell's Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories book and David Ebenbach's How to Mars

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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A Brewing Storm (Derrick Storm, #1)

Richard Castle

3.70

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Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

Mur Lafferty

3.71

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The Paradox Hotel

Rob Hart

3.54

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Edward Ashton

3.99

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Malka Ann Older

3.64

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Martha Wells

4.22

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Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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