7 Best speculative fiction books like The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, #3) by Michael Swanwick

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The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, #3)

By: Michael Swanwick

4.07

Format: None pages, None

Michael Swanwick returns to his gritty, post-industrial faerie with the standalone adventure fantas…

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, #3) by Michael Swanwick , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.24

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bris… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

"Sometimes it is hard because we have to make choices. I remember when having to make choices scared me more than anything else except Master being angry with me. Now I know that making choices is the…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

"There are still fierce pressure groups shouting about letting go of humanity, but they are the same groups who cry that Bioforms are less than human. One day the world will be ready to accept that hu…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)

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2. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"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

3. The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.36

Format: 524 pages, Paperback

In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidde… read more

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4. The Years of Rice and Salt

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occu… read more

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5. Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

By: Seanan McGuire

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciou… read more

Similar categories in Seanan McGuire's Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5) book and Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, #3)

  • urban fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You're not tall, but you walk like you are."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"New things are the best kind of magic there is."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"I have a reservoir filled with lightning under my heart."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

"When a scientist speaks, it behooves the ordinary soul to listen."

-Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)

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6. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • 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

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7. 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 fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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8. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

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9. Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

By: Emily Tesh

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias,… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"he felt himself for a moment as the stump of a rotten old tree, putting up thin green shoots at strange new angles."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He knew it the same way the woodsman knew it, because he knew trees: but he also knew it with the knowledge of the Wild Man of Greenhallow, who felt every slow green beat of the forest's heart."

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

"He planted his feet a shoulders width apart in the ground. After a moment he closed his eyes. Here was the wood. Slow and green he felt the life of it, the life that had been his life as well these f…"

-Emily Tesh, Silver in the Wood (The Greenhollow Duology, #1)

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10. 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

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, #3)

  • urban fantasy
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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11. The Raven Tower

By: Ann Leckie

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"Can you hear me now? I'm talking to you."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"What is it that makes language a far more powerful—and risky—tool for gods than it is for even humans? What is it that makes gods gods? What am I?"

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Given a bit more time he might have realized that what kept him alive was the same god whose continued existence drained his power so relentlessly."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important—except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

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12. Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

By: K.J. Parker

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

There’s no formal training for battlefield salvage. You just have to pick things up as you go along… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1) book and Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, #3)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"The men of Sirupat weren't fighters because they didn't want to be, and in my book there's no higher praise than that--and that's the main reason, when you come to think of it, why women are so infin…"

-K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

"Where you always go wrong is trying to persuade people with facts and arguments. It's why you can only write comedy. What gets people going is stuff that doesn't mean shit but sounds great. Blood, to…"

-K.J. Parker, Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead (Corax Trilogy #1)

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13. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, #3)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

14. House of Open Wounds (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.51

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to a… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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15. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

16. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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17. 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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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"I dislike calling them stubs,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"You’re too young to remember it,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"We’ve sourced something field-expedient,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

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

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

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18. Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

By: K.J. Parker

4.08

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Grea… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1) book and Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, #3)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it."

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

"My guess is, they couldn't sleep, and they had the kind of generous nature that reckons insomnia isn't something you hoard all for yourself, you share it with your friends and loved ones."

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

"My belief is, either you understand things or you understand people. Nobody can do both. Frankly, I’m happier with things. I understand stuff like tensile strength, shearing force, ductility, work ha…"

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

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19. Inside Man

By: K.J. Parker

3.72

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

K.J. Parker returns to the amoral world of Prosper's Demon with a wry, sardonic novella that flips … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Better the devil you know, so allow me to introduce myself: I'm the Devil."

-K.J. Parker, Inside Man

"He looks at me as though he's just bitten an apple in a garden and found me there."

-K.J. Parker, Inside Man

Cover of The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, #3) by Michael Swanwick

20. The Iron Dragon's Mother (The Iron Dragon's Daughter, #3)

By: Michael Swanwick

4.07

Format: None pages, None

Michael Swanwick returns to his gritty, post-industrial faerie with the standalone adventure fantas… read more

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  • urban fantasy
  • adult fiction
  • dragons
  • science fiction fantasy
  • steampunk
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

21. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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