If you liked the short stories plot in Subterranean Magazine #4 by John Scalzi , here is a list of 11 books like this:
1. Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1)
By: Jack Campbell
3.77
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippl… read more
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- science fiction
2. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
By: Martha Wells
4.15
Format: 144 pages, ebook
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated space-farin… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
"On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an “oh shit"-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other."-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
3. 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
"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)
4. Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
By: Ada Palmer
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, t… read more
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- science fiction
5. A Canticle for Leibowitz
By: Walter M. Miller Jr.
3.39
Format: 414 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more
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- science fiction
6. The Death of the Necromancer (Ile-Rien, #2)
By: Martha Wells
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Nicholas Valiarde is a passionate, embittered nobleman with an enigmatic past. Consumed by thoughts… read more
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7. 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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8. City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)
By: Robert Jackson Bennett
4.42
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So … read more
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- science fiction
"What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures."-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)
"He does his best to stumble through an explanation, but he suddenly feels like he knows very little. Perhaps he forgot it all, or perhaps he never really understood it to begin with."-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)
"Change is a slow flower to bloom. Most of us will not see its full radiance. We plant it not for ourselves, but for future generations. But it is worth tending to. Oh, it is so terribly worth tending…"-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)
9. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)
By: Donald E. Westlake
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more
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10. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)
By: Larry Niven
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more
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11. Lightspeed Magazine, June 2010
By: John Joseph Adams , David Barr Kirtley , Carrie Vaughn , Vylar Kaftan , Jack McDevitt
4.09
Format: None pages,
Lightspeed Magazine features all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future… read more
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12. Borders of Infinity (Vorkosigan Saga [Publication] #5.1-5.3)
By: Lois McMaster Bujold
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
Limited edition volume. Contents: Frame story that follows Miles' time on Earth in Brothers in Arms… read more
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13. Beneath Ceaseless Skies #54
By: Steve Rasnic Tem , Ann Leckie , Scott H. Andrews
4.18
Format: None pages,
Issue #54 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Steve Rasnic Tem and Ann… read more
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14. 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
15. 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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- science fiction
"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
16. Saga, Volume 8
By: Brian K. Vaughan
4.46
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions… read more
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- science fiction
"Welcome to Abortion Town!"-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"Is this some kind of kinky thrupple thing? Because I'm not necessarily opposed."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"I´ve held you in my heart since the day you left me. But you´re too heavy to carry another step. And I need to keep moving."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
"Doubt can paralyze you, can make you not want to do anything. But if you learn to channel it, to turn those feelings away from yourself and out at the world you can doubt what's impossible."-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 8
17. Witch King
By: Martha Wells
3.71
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more
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- science fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."-Martha Wells, Witch King
18. Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)
By: Everina Maxwell
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set… read more
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- science fiction
"Society isn't something you can just snap your fingers and change."-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)
"This is nothing. One more incredibly dumb problem to baffle my therapist with."-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)
"It's not fair. It's not equal. You have to let things go, over and over and over again. But it's mine, and it's important, and I'm doing what I can."-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)
"I used to be unusable because I was a mess," Tennal said. "Now I've spent time as a ranker and time as an officer, and you know what? Now I'm unusable by choice."-Everina Maxwell, Ocean's Echo (Winter's Orbit, #2)
19. 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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- science fiction
20. In Mercy, Rain (Wayward Children, #7.5)
By: Seanan McGuire
3.92
Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition
Jack Wolcott was only twelve years old when she and her twin sister Jill, descended the impossible … read more
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- short stories
21. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
By: Arkady Martine
4.32
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one ca… read more
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- science fiction
"I thought you hated them,"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"On the flagship Weight of the Wheel : “You’d have to ask medical,"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"exile happened in the heart and the mind long before it happened to the body"-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
"Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued."-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
22. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)
By: Ann Leckie
3.65
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
23. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.01
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
24. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.87
Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition
A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
25. Meru (The Alloy Era, #1)
By: S.B. Divya
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Kindle Edition
One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in an epic space opera about … read more
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- science fiction
26. The Dragon that Flew out of the Sun
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.91
Format: 77 pages, ebook
Three Short stories in the Xuya Universe, setting of other stories by Alliette de Bodard. Original… read more
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- short stories
27. 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
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- short stories
"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
28. As the Last I May Know
By: S.L. Huang
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
An alternate history short story looking at decisions and consequences, and what it takes to pull t… read more
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- short stories
29. Subterranean Magazine #4
By: John Scalzi
3.80
Format: 92 pages, ebook
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- short stories
- anthologies
30. Incomplete Solutions
By: Wole Talabi
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An elderly woman in early 22nd century Lagos is called in to help test the artificial intelligence … read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
31. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 149 February 2019
By: Neil Clarke
3.91
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
Our February 2019 issue (#149) contains:*Original fiction by Brit E. B. Hvide ("East of the Sun, We… read more
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- anthologies
