11 Best science fiction books like More Walls Broken by Tim Powers

Cover of More Walls Broken by Tim Powers

More Walls Broken

By: Tim Powers

3.83

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

As this ingenious new novella, More Walls Broken, begins, a trio of academics have just entered a d…

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Cover of Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Joe R. Lansdale

1. Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas

By: Garth Ennis , Steve Dillon , Joe R. Lansdale

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Comics

Alternate Cover Edition One of the most celebrated comics titles of the late 1990s, PREACHER is… read more

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  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I thought you an' I'd already settled the roles in the fucker/fuckee relationship! I guess I thought wrong!"

-Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas

" Criminal: You can suck my dick, motherfucker! Detective Bridges: You suck mine! [shoves barrel of pistol in the Criminal's mouth] An' you get used to it, cause you get to Rykers you're gonna find a …"

-Garth Ennis, Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas

2. The Bedlam Stacks

By: Natasha Pulley

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after susta… read more

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3. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.37

Format: 414 pages,

Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits… read more

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4. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

By: Angela Carter

3.74

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious … read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Necessary connections are fabulous beasts."

-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

"[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason."

-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

"She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted…"

-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

"There had never been such roses as those that bloomed that summer. They clambered everywhere and dripped as if perspiring the heaviest most intoxicating perfume, which seemed to make the very masonry…"

-Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Cover of City of Bones by Martha Wells

5. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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

6. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

By: Natasha Pulley

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian … read more

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Cover of Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4) by Terry Pratchett

7. Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.78

Format: 197 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is h… read more

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4) book and Tim Powers's More Walls Broken

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Where the hell did demons live, anyway?"

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Most of history is pretty appaling, when you look hard at it. Or even not very hard."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

8. Song of Kali

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages,

"O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother." It… read more

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9. 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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Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

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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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"(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. Elder Race

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) by Nghi Vo

12. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

13. 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

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) book and Tim Powers's More Walls Broken

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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14. Lanny

By: Max Porter

4.06

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."

-Max Porter, Lanny

"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."

-Max Porter, Lanny

Cover of The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

15. 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

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Tim Powers's More Walls Broken

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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 Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1) by Ken MacLeod

16. Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1)

By: Ken MacLeod

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

'An exceptional blend of international politics, hard science, and first contact' Michael Mammay, a… read more

Similar categories in Ken MacLeod's Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1) book and Tim Powers's More Walls Broken

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1) by Lina Rather

17. Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)

By: Lina Rather

4.01

Format: 176 pages, ebook

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina … read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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18. The Navigating Fox

By: Christopher Rowe

3.74

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an expeditio… read more

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Wish I Was Here by M. John Harrison

19. Wish I Was Here

By: M. John Harrison

4.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'Is M John Harrison the best writer at work today? He's certainly among the deftest and most origin… read more

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"Much of life, you will never know what happened to you at all, let alone to anyone else."

-M. John Harrison, Wish I Was Here

Cover of Chaos Vector (The Protectorate, #2) by Megan E. O'Keefe

20. Chaos Vector (The Protectorate, #2)

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

4.20

Format: 546 pages, Paperback

Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in the second book in this epi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of More Walls Broken by Tim Powers

21. More Walls Broken

By: Tim Powers

3.83

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

As this ingenious new novella, More Walls Broken, begins, a trio of academics have just entered a d… read more

Similar categories in Tim Powers's More Walls Broken book and Tim Powers's More Walls Broken

  • ghosts
  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • supernatural
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy

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Garth Ennis , Steve Dillon , Joe R. Lansdale

4.18

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Angela Carter

3.74

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Martha Wells

4.00

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Terry Pratchett

3.78

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4.00

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4.01

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4.17

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