14 Top speculative fiction books like Conquest by Nina Allan

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Conquest

By: Nina Allan

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Rachel's boyfriend Frank is different from other people. His strangeness is part of what she loves …

If you liked the speculative fiction plot in Conquest by Nina Allan , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Distrust That Particular Flavor

By: William Gibson

3.81

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

William Gibson is known primarily as a novelist, with his work ranging from his groundbreaking firs… read more

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"Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting."

-William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

"Singaporeans seemed generally quite loathe to discuss these more intimate policies of government with a curious foreign visitor who was more than twice as tall as the average human, and who sweated s…"

-William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

"Bugis Street, once famous for its transvestite prostitutes - the sort of place where one could have imagined Noel Coward, ripped on opium, cocaine and the local tailoring, just off his rickshaw for a…"

-William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

"I have often raised an eyebrow at hearing him sing, as I push a cart down some Safeway aisle, of the spiritual complexities induced by he admixture of Cuervo Gold, cocaine, and nineteen-year-old girl…"

-William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor

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2. A Natural

By: Ross Raisin

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others lo… read more

Similar categories in Ross Raisin's A Natural book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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3. Central Station

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.51

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Culture… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Central Station book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"...these fragile, worn, faded, thin, cheap paper-bound books. They smelled of dust, and mould, and age. They smelled, faintly, of pee, and tobacco, and spilled coffee. They smelled like things which …"

-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station

"Other humans believed the same way they breathed: it came natural to them. The world was filled with synagogues and churches, mosques and temples, shrines to Elron and Ogko. New faiths rose and fell …"

-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station

"But he knew, too, that there is more than one story in this world at a time; and that her story was not his. Their stories had entwined, but they had different trajectories, different conclusions. He…"

-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station

"It is, perhaps, the prerogative of every man or woman to imagine, and thus force a shape, a meaning, onto that wild and meandering narrative of their lives, by choosing genre. A princess is rescued b…"

-Lavie Tidhar, Central Station

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4. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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5. 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 Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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6. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

Similar categories in Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

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7. Airside

By: Christopher Priest

3.27

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood actress Jeanette Marchand was beautiful, talented, beloved by audiences. During a time … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Priest's Airside book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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8. Prophet

By: Sin Blaché

3.68

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more

Similar categories in Sin Blaché's Prophet book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."

-Sin Blaché, Prophet

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9. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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10. Him

By: Geoff Ryman

3.79

Format: 257 pages, ebook

“Women, of course, can not be sons of God.” In the village of Nazareth, virgin Maryam and the wife … read more

Similar categories in Geoff Ryman's Him book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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11. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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12. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's Rose/House book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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13. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

Similar categories in Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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14. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

By: Sofia Samatar

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more

Similar categories in Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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16. Bridge

By: Lauren Beukes

3.68

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A grieving daughter’s search for her mother becomes a journey across alternate realities in Bridge,… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Beukes's Bridge book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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17. Singer Distance

By: Ethan Chatagnier

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Station Eleven and Light from Other Stars, Ethan Chatagnier’s propulsive, genre-bending… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Chatagnier's Singer Distance book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
"A road can be the connection between places or the distance between them"

-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance

"a constellation is formed by points of light that are not connected to each other by anything other than the observer"

-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance

"I didn’t know whether these pictures would end up in history books or be used against me in a court hearing, but they would testify to something."

-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance

"Crystal owed the two of us so many apologies, but I’d spent enough years imagining extracting those from my father to know that wringing someone else out didn’t make you any fuller."

-Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance

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18. Hopeland

By: Ian McDonald

3.83

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

They met while London burned. A encounter during a riot brought Amon Brightbourne together with Rai… read more

Similar categories in Ian McDonald's Hopeland book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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19. More Perfect

By: Temi Oh

3.69

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

A reimagining of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus, for fans of Becky Chambers and William Gib… read more

Similar categories in Temi Oh's More Perfect book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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20. 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

Similar categories in M. John Harrison's Wish I Was Here book and Nina Allan's Conquest

"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

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21. The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

By: M. John Harrison

3.39

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a deca… read more

Similar categories in M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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22. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

Similar categories in Keanu Reeves's The Book of Elsewhere book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar

23. The Circumference of the World

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notoriou… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Circumference of the World book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Cold Water (The Fractured Europe Sequence) by Dave Hutchinson

24. Cold Water (The Fractured Europe Sequence)

By: Dave Hutchinson

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A dazzling, visionary and original thriller of future espionage, broken borders, and impossible sec… read more

Similar categories in Dave Hutchinson's Cold Water (The Fractured Europe Sequence) book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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25. The Coral Bones

By: E.J. Swift

4.11

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

This is what it looks like when coral dies. Present day. Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racin… read more

Similar categories in E.J. Swift's The Coral Bones book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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26. Lamb

By: Matt Hill

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

‘It’s inside every parent to want to carry their child’s terror. It’s the thing they never tell yo… read more

Similar categories in Matt Hill's Lamb book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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27. Conquest

By: Nina Allan

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Rachel's boyfriend Frank is different from other people. His strangeness is part of what she loves … read more

Similar categories in Nina Allan's Conquest book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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28. Three Eight One

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.57

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing literary crossover novel about the pressures of growing up and the nature of authors… read more

Similar categories in Aliya Whiteley's Three Eight One book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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29. True Love

By: Paddy Crewe

4.12

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

KEELY feels alone in the world — grief consumes her, she wants to escape it, to take both her fathe… read more

Similar categories in Paddy Crewe's True Love book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Seven Lively Suspects (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #3) by Katy  Watson

30. Seven Lively Suspects (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #3)

By: Katy Watson

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It's been five years since Dahlia fan Scott Baker was arrested for a murder that had eerie echoes o… read more

Similar categories in Katy Watson's Seven Lively Suspects (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #3) book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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31. Lake of Darkness

By: Adam Roberts

4.00

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Good is a construct. Evil is a virus.The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sß Oubliette were in orb… read more

Similar categories in Adam Roberts's Lake of Darkness book and Nina Allan's Conquest

  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction

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Ross Raisin

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