14 Best science fiction fantasy books like The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar

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The Escapement

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Into the Escapement rides the Stranger, a lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son in a strange par…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Jagannath

By: Karin Tidbeck

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly … read more

Similar categories in Karin Tidbeck's Jagannath book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of City by Clifford D. Simak

2. City

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Wolf Moon (Luna, #2) by Ian McDonald

3. Wolf Moon (Luna, #2)

By: Ian McDonald

3.64

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

A Dragon is dead. Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen.… read more

Similar categories in Ian McDonald's Wolf Moon (Luna, #2) book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) by Philip José Farmer

4. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)

By: Philip José Farmer

4.54

Format: None pages,

To Your Scattered Bodies Gois the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip J… read more

Similar categories in Philip José Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Early Riser

By: Jasper Fforde

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies danger… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

6. Mongrels

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on t… read more

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7. Synners

By: Pat Cadigan , Neil Gaiman

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. A constant stream of new t… read more

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8. Una voce di notte (Commissario Montalbano, #20)

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Tutto congiura perche Montalbano prenda atto del proprio compleanno e, bravando e brontolando, si l… read more

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9. The Salt Grows Heavy

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewi… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Khaw's The Salt Grows Heavy book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"And you shall know her by the trail of dead"

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"There is nothing wrong with being a monster."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"A thousand mythologies contributed to my conception."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

"The truth liberates; it cannot cripple or maul, cannot injure, not unless one declares themselves its apostate."

-Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy

Cover of The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

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 Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • magical realism
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck

11. The Memory Theater

By: Karin Tidbeck

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In a world just parallel to ours exists a mystical realm known only as the Gardens. It is a place w… read more

Similar categories in Karin Tidbeck's The Memory Theater book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • magical realism
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

12. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Chav Solidarity

By: D. Hunter

4.39

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

To the political left Hunter's people are the ignorant and the ill informed, to the victorious righ… read more

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"Οι δικοί μου άνθρωποι ξέρουν και να φροντίζουν μα και να πολεμούν. Κουβαλούν μέσα τους και σκληρότητα και τρυφερότητα, τους εκμεταλλεύονται και τους παραπετάνε, τους απορρίπτουν σαν απολίτιστα στουρν…"

-D. Hunter, Chav Solidarity

Cover of Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3) by Charles Stross

14. Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3)

By: Charles Stross

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Season of Skulls continues Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Lovecraftian Laundry Files se… read more

Similar categories in Charles Stross's Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3) book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. The Extractionist

By: Kimberly Unger

3.61

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

2023 Philip K. Dick Award Winner In her latest exciting technothriller, acclaimed author Kimberl… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Unger's The Extractionist book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Overnight Kidnapper (Inspector Montalbano, #23) by Andrea Camilleri

16. The Overnight Kidnapper (Inspector Montalbano, #23)

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.94

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Camilleri's The Overnight Kidnapper (Inspector Montalbano, #23) book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • fiction
Cover of King Bullet (Sandman Slim, #12) by Richard Kadrey

17. King Bullet (Sandman Slim, #12)

By: Richard Kadrey

4.15

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The incredible finale of the page-turning, high-octane Sandman Slim series filled with an explosive… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's King Bullet (Sandman Slim, #12) book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe

18. We Are Here to Hurt Each Other

By: Paula D. Ashe

4.06

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

With these twelve stories Paula D. Ashe takes you into a dark and bloody world where nothing is sac… read more

Similar categories in Paula D. Ashe's We Are Here to Hurt Each Other book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of 36 Streets by T.R. Napper

19. 36 Streets

By: T.R. Napper

3.95

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this Ditmar and Aurealis award-winning, … read more

Similar categories in T.R. Napper's 36 Streets book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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20. Pulling the Wings Off Angels

By: K.J. Parker

3.70

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Long ago, a wealthy man stole an angel and hid her in a chapel, where she remains imprisoned to thi… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Parker's Pulling the Wings Off Angels book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"There's nothing quite like the scriptures for killing faith stone dead. Actually reading them and thinking about what they said evaporated my belief like spit on a hot stove."

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

"Mercy isn't fair, it means someone getting away with what he did because the Boss feels sorry for him. Justice is fair. Justice puts people in prison. Mercy lets them out again. Of course mercy isn't…"

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

"That's the thing about belief, you can't make yourself do it. It's like falling asleep or being in love. You can lie there all night desperately wanting to go to sleep, and the more you want the more…"

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

"He's perfect, so He must be like us and not a bit like them across the border. He thinks like us, obviously; He likes what we like and hates what we hate, and here's Scripture (recorded, translated, …"

-K.J. Parker, Pulling the Wings Off Angels

Cover of The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

21. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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22. The Ten Percent Thief

By: Lavanya Lakshminarayan

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, th… read more

Similar categories in Lavanya Lakshminarayan's The Ten Percent Thief book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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23. How to Mars

By: David Ebenbach

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality television nightmare? This debut science-… read more

Similar categories in David Ebenbach's How to Mars book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"We have been told that this is what it means to be alive."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"Holding hands in spacesuits is not very much like holding actual hands, but it's something."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"What you have here is a women who's travelled more than a hundred millions miles in order to become, I guess, a biologist with no bio to ology"

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

"What do you think it means?" she says in a low, conspiratorial voice. "What do YOU think it means?" I say. It's an old psychologist move, that one."

-David Ebenbach, How to Mars

Cover of The Only Living Girl on Earth by Charles Yu

24. The Only Living Girl on Earth

By: Charles Yu

3.33

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Univ… read more

Similar categories in Charles Yu's The Only Living Girl on Earth book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Crazy in Poughkeepsie (Neddie & Friends, #6) by Daniel Pinkwater

25. Crazy in Poughkeepsie (Neddie & Friends, #6)

By: Daniel Pinkwater

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The inimitable Daniel Pinkwater (The Big Orange Splot; The Hoboken Chicken Emergency) brings his za… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Pinkwater's Crazy in Poughkeepsie (Neddie & Friends, #6) book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Unity by Elly Bangs

26. Unity

By: Elly Bangs

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Evoking the grittiness of Mad Max and the idealism of Sense8, this absorbing sci-fi debut is a dyna… read more

Similar categories in Elly Bangs's Unity book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar

27. The Escapement

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Into the Escapement rides the Stranger, a lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son in a strange par… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • magical realism
  • westerns
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Gordius. Vermi nel cuore by Massimiliano Niero

28. Gordius. Vermi nel cuore

By: Massimiliano Niero

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Parma, ottobre 2026. Qualcosa di oscuro sta trasformando gli uomini. Quando inizia l’invasion… read more

Similar categories in Massimiliano Niero's Gordius. Vermi nel cuore book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction
Cover of The Peculiarities by David Liss

29. The Peculiarities

By: David Liss

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From popular historical alternate history author David Liss (A Conspiracy of Paper) comes the tale … read more

Similar categories in David Liss's The Peculiarities book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of 51 by Patrick  O'Leary

30. 51

By: Patrick O'Leary

3.57

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

The events at Roswell have long been one of the U.S. government's best-kept secrets. But what if Ar… read more

Similar categories in Patrick O'Leary's 51 book and Lavie Tidhar's The Escapement

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories by Tobias S. Buckell

31. Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories

By: Tobias S. Buckell

3.99

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Traffic is piling up, and strange things are heading your way in this new collection by World Fanta… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

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