18 must-read science fiction books like The Compleat Guth Bandar by Matthew Hughes

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The Compleat Guth Bandar

By: Matthew Hughes

4.07

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

The Compleat Guth Bandar In Old Earth’s penultimate age, humanity’s collective unconscious has lon…

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Compleat Guth Bandar by Matthew Hughes , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of The Many-Coloured Land (Saga of Pliocene Exile, #1) by Julian  May

1. The Many-Coloured Land (Saga of Pliocene Exile, #1)

By: Julian May

4.06

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

In the year 2034, Theo Guderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the… read more

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2. Sand (Sand, #1-5)

By: Hugh Howey

4.04

Format: 417 pages,

The new novel from the international bestselling author of the Wool trilogy. The old world is burie… read more

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3. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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4. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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5. The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

By: John Scalzi

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from… read more

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6. Tales of the Dying Earth

By: Jack Vance

3.77

Format: 352 pages,

Contains all four Dying Earth books in one omnibus volume: 1 * The Dying Earth * [Dying Earth * 1] … read more

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7. The Historian

By: Elizabeth Kostova

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition for  To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, e… read more

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8. Flashforward

By: Robert J. Sawyer

4.24

Format: 376 pages,

FLASHFORWARD Two minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the world Suddenly, without warning, al… read more

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9. City of Bones

By: Martha Wells

4.00

Format: 442 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Where once great galleons roamed the sea, sand ships now traverse the Great Waste, and a glitteri… read more

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"What magic does is to open the mind to the world and sometimes the world isn't what we think it is."

-Martha Wells, City of Bones

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10. 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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"(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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11. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

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12. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

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"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Cover of Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12) by Lois McMaster Bujold

13. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

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14. Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

By: Martha Wells

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCr… read more

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"I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

Cover of Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5) by Ben Aaronovitch

15. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.99

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more

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"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

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16. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

By: Martha Wells

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it res… read more

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"Why is this ship so old and shitty?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"I was having an emotion, and I hate that."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"But they were humans— who knows why they did anything?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

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17. There Is No Antimemetics Division

By: qntm

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more

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"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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18. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

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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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20. Dungeons & Dragons: Infernal Tides

By: Jim Zub

4.01

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A new D&D adventure begins as the odyssey following the Baldur's Gate heroes continues in this grap… read more

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21. Dungeons & Dragons: Days of Endless Adventure (DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Baldur's Gate)

By: Jim Zub

4.15

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Go beyond the tabletop campaign--or fuel it with new material--in this trio of immersive adventures… read more

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22. Head On (Lock In, #2)

By: John Scalzi

4.01

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and cr… read more

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Cover of The Last Emperox (The Interdependency, #3) by John Scalzi

23. The Last Emperox (The Interdependency, #3)

By: John Scalzi

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has … read more

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  • science fiction
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24. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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Cover of Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3) by Charles Stross

25. Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3)

By: Charles Stross

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Season of Skulls continues Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Lovecraftian Laundry Files se… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Agency (Jackpot #2) by William Gibson

26. Agency (Jackpot #2)

By: William Gibson

3.81

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted "a… read more

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"I dislike calling them stubs,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"You’re too young to remember it,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"I like it. A Silicon Valley ghost story."

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"We’ve sourced something field-expedient,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

Cover of Necromancy in Nilztiria (Tales of Nilztiria Book 1) by D.M. Ritzlin

27. Necromancy in Nilztiria (Tales of Nilztiria Book 1)

By: D.M. Ritzlin

4.10

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

The world of Nilztiria is an ancient one. Beneath its brilliant crimson sun and demon-haunted moons… read more

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28. Phaedra: Alastor 824

By: Tais Teng

3.78

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

Wake the living Galleons at your peril... The Elder Race once ruled the entire Alastor cluster. … read more

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29. The Compleat Guth Bandar

By: Matthew Hughes

4.07

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

The Compleat Guth Bandar In Old Earth’s penultimate age, humanity’s collective unconscious has lon… read more

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30. Twilight World

By: Poul Anderson

3.36

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

"The time is shortly after the great nuclear spasm: in all the world there is nothing but ruin, fam… read more

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18 Best fiction books like Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

Cory Doctorow

4.13

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