14 Top science fiction books like Palimpseste by Charles Stross, Florence Dolisi

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Palimpseste

By: Charles Stross , Florence Dolisi

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Drame ecologique, guerre nucleaire, catastrophe naturelle... A plus ou moins long terme, toute civi…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Palimpseste by Charles Stross, Florence Dolisi , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Who Fears Death

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.94

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"If you spend enough time in the desert, you will hear it speak."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

"Oh, how our traditions limit and outcast those of us who aren't normal."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

"My mother once said that fear is like a man who, once burned, is afraid of a glow worm"

-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

"To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them."

-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

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2. The Lifecycle of Software Objects

By: Ted Chiang

3.92

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, "Many people thi… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
"recession after the latest flu pandemic,"

-Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

"Experience is algorithmically incompressible."

-Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

"[S]kill at debate isn't the same as maturity."

-Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

"Obviously you’re going to have your hands full,"

-Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects

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3. Anathem

By: Neal Stephenson

4.17

Format: 937 pages, Hardcover

Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians,… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

"Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

"Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

"Linguistics got me into this excellent mess––only physics can get me out."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

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4. Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

4.26

Format: 281 pages, ebook

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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5. Revenger (Revenger, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.87

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Palimpseste by Charles Stross, Florence Dolisi

6. Palimpseste

By: Charles Stross , Florence Dolisi

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Drame ecologique, guerre nucleaire, catastrophe naturelle... A plus ou moins long terme, toute civi… read more

Similar categories in Charles Stross's Palimpseste book and Charles Stross's Palimpseste

  • time travel
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • hugo awards
  • fantasy
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

7. 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
  • 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)

8. Troika

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Troika tells the story of men and women confronting an enigma known as the Matryoshka, a vast alien… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. Slow Bullets

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, be… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fiction

10. The Telling (Hainish Cycle #8)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of… read more

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11. Thousandth Night

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Thousandth Night, the genesis for the epic novel House of Suns, is quintessential Reynolds. A visio… read more

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12. The Medusa Chronicles

By: Stephen Baxter , Alastair Reynolds

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Following an accident that almost cost him his life, Howard Falcon was not so much saved as he was … read more

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13. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

By: None

3.50

Format: 519 pages, Paperback

In a time not far from our own, Lawrence sets out simply to build an artifical intelligence that ca… read more

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14. The End of Eternity

By: Isaac Asimov

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, mon… read more

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15. Journey to the End of the Night

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann

4.19

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more

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  • fiction
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

16. Maelstrom (Rifters, #2)

By: Peter Watts

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Paperback

An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, … read more

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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
  • time travel
Cover of Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4) by Dennis E. Taylor

18. Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.29

Format: 17 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 16 hours and 57 minutes Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, ep… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Subtlety: I no haz it."

-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

"Sadly, it was like most political arguments. No one was willing to debate their base assumptions or justify them or compromise on them. The simple tactic being that if you repeated your assertion oft…"

-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

"We'd gotten onto the concept or morality and Frida had just asked Theresa how she could have any sense of morality without a deity to define what was or was not moral. [...] "What deities give you ar…"

-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

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19. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

Cover of Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4) by Ada Palmer

20. Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4)

By: Ada Palmer

4.33

Format: 586 pages, Hardcover

From the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Even MASON froze a moment. “Bridger built a satellite that built a robot capable of blasting missiles halfway to the Moon?"

-Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4)

"Conflict's resurgence does not require us to accept war's thesis and call war's deaths justice just because we wear the words and uniforms of a past which assented to this."

-Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4)

"We discussed what we want from you now,...you who had power and used it to burn the world. You burned a lot. You didn't just burn trees and cities and each other. You burned our admiration for the go…"

-Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota, #4)

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21. 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
  • fiction

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Who Fears Death

Nnedi Okorafor

3.94

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The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Ted Chiang

3.92

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Neal Stephenson

4.17

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4.26

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Solaris

Stanisław Lem

3.99

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Roadside Picnic

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4.14

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Greg Egan

4.39

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