15 must-read science fiction books like Communications Breakdown by Jonathan Strahan

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Communications Breakdown

By: Jonathan Strahan

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An exciting science fiction collection that looks at what future communication might look like and …

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1. Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

By: William Gibson

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteni… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"<> es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"Trabajar con las dos manos" es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

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2. When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

By: Cory Doctorow

3.82

Format: 81 pages, ebook

When multiple terrorist acts bring the world to its knees, the future of mankind rests in the hands… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • technology
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3. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

4. Nightfall

By: Isaac Asimov , Robert Silverberg

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen… read more

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5. Comfort Me with Apples

By: Catherynne M. Valente

3.59

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more

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  • fiction
"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"

-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples

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6. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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7. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

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  • fiction
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8. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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9. The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

By: Cory Doctorow

4.13

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • technology
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10. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

By: Cory Doctorow

3.90

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • technology
"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."

-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

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11. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

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  • fiction
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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12. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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13. Christmas and Other Horrors: A winter solstice anthology

By: Ellen Datlow

3.65

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horro… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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14. The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

3.50

Format: 628 pages, Hardcover

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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15. The Freeze-Frame Revolution

By: Peter Watts

3.95

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when you… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"We're dead anyway, all we get to choose is the exit strategy."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"You might just decide that one life lived on your own recognizance is better than a million unremembered births."

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Don't feel too bad. Everyone's in chains here. Eriophora's a slave ship. We cavemen are shackled by our need for air and food and water, by the disorienting discontinuity of lives cut into slices spr…"

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

"Nothing's immortal on a road trip of a billion years. The universe runs down in stop-motion around you, your backups' backups' backups need backups. Not even the error-correcting replication strategi…"

-Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution

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16. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 5

By: Neil Clarke

3.76

Format: 794 pages, Kindle Edition

From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies
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17. Always Human

By: Ari North

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

First serialized on the popular app and website WebToon, Always Human ran from 2015-2017 and amasse… read more

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  • science fiction
"Do you ever get so nervous that you pass straight through terror and come out the other side? And then you stop being scared and you start being reckless?"

-Ari North, Always Human

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18. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7

By: Neil Clarke

3.80

Format: 626 pages, Kindle Edition

A remote village is determined to keep their robot teacher from being fired. A poetry-loving AI con… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
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19. The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism

By: R. Derek Black

4.11

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the former heir-apparent to white nationalism, The Klansman’s Son is an astonishing memoir of … read more

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20. Communications Breakdown

By: Jonathan Strahan

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An exciting science fiction collection that looks at what future communication might look like and … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • technology
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21. Convergence Problems

By: Wole Talabi

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Convergence Problems is a new short story collection from award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • short stories
  • anthologies

16 Best fiction books like Communications Breakdown by Jonathan Strahan

Transform Your Habits

Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

William Gibson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth

Cory Doctorow

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

William Gibson

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Comfort Me with Apples

Catherynne M. Valente

3.59

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16 must-read fiction books like The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts

Transform Your Habits

Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)

Greg Egan

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Ship of Fools

Richard Paul Russo

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Raft (Xeelee Sequence, #1)

Stephen Baxter

4.57

Troika

Alastair Reynolds

3.50

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