16 Best science fiction books like The Network by Cindy Zhang

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The Network

By: Cindy Zhang

3.78

Format: 106 pages, ebook

Sabine is working on a mixed-species spaceship when it abruptly comes under attack by a strange mon…

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1. A Dead Djinn in Cairo

By: P. Djèlí Clark

3.66

Format: 341 pages, ebook

Egypt, 1912. In an alternate Cairo infused with the otherworldly, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantm… read more

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2. The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)

By: Premee Mohamed

3.72

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In post-climate disaster Alberta, a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"In silent agreement we squeeze into the window to study our valley. Unlovely in the early spring, crusted with think rime of muddy snow, the river still choked with ice, a single dark thread of water…"

-Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds #1)

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3. The Route of Ice and Salt

By: José Luis Zárate

3.62

Format: 143 pages, ebook

A reimagining of Dracula’s voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It’s … read more

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  • lgbt
"But I must see that man for the last time, tell him that Hunger is not a sin, nor is Necessity or Appetite. What matters, I repeat, is what we are willing to do to satisfy them."

-José Luis Zárate, The Route of Ice and Salt

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4. Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

4.24

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hugo and Crawford Award-Winning Series! The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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5. The Secret of Poppyridge Cove

By: Rimmy London

3.77

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

A hauntingly beautiful seaside mansion has been abandoned for decades... and for good reason. When… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. Chaos Rising (Edge of Collapse, #0.5)

By: Kyla Stone

4.30

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

In a heartbeat, everything grinds to a halt... On Christmas Eve, the lights go out. Vehicles stop w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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8. The Seep

By: Chana Porter

3.66

Format: 203 pages, Hardcover

Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—bu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • lgbt
"Grief is happy memories."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"…interrogate the depths of your sadness or you’ll drown."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"Deeba had been a vegan long before the aliens came. Some people didn’t need cosmic intervention to know how to be good."

-Chana Porter, The Seep

"How have we never met before? they said again and again, but what they really meant was How have I only just begun to love you?"

-Chana Porter, The Seep

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9. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

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  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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10. 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

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  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Darkest Winter (Savage North Chronicles, #1)

By: Lindsey Pogue

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

The Virus spread. Billions died. The Ending began. A group of orphaned misfits. The wild lands … read more

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  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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12. This World is Full of Monsters

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.38

Format: 38 pages, ebook

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death an… read more

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  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • audiobook
"I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word."

-Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters

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13. The Clown Brigade

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.51

Format: 100 pages, Audiobook

It’s a brand-new day for Kyle: He’s flying across the country to meet a woman he connected with onl… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Djinn City

By: Saad Z. Hossain

3.71

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third worl… read more

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  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Ocean's Godori

By: Elaine U. Cho

3.67

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Ocean Yoon has never felt like much of a Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haeny… read more

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  • science fiction
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
"She asks, "Do you ever want to go back to Mars?" "It's a weird little place," he replies. "Stuck in its ways. I feel more like a Martian when I'm not there, if that makes sense."

-Elaine U. Cho, Ocean's Godori

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16. Dance of a Burning Sea (Mousai, #2)

By: E.J. Mellow

4.27

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Within the world of Aadilor, there is a hidden place called the Thief Kingdom, where both magic and… read more

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17. The Restless Dark

By: Erica Waters

3.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk. The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
"Dad said I should be afraid of death because I'll finally have to face judgement for my sins. But he was wrong. These bones tell me there's nothing in death to fear. It's only the living who need to …"

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

"There is no such thing as generational curses, no evil carried in our DNA. That's just Pentecostal bullshit, a way to reject responsibility and guilt. We are the choices we make, the actions we commi…"

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

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18. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

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  • science fiction
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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19. The Follower of Flowers (Flowers of Prophecy #2)

By: Natalia Hernandez

4.43

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

As a child, the Name-Bearer had one duty; to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
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20. Beholder

By: Ryan La Sala

3.92

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

"Beholder is a resplendent monster of power, secrets, wealth, and murderous interior design." - An… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
"People look into mirrors with such unguarded curiosity, never thinking that someone else is looking back."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"We mustn’t light our way with the flame of fear. It’ll make the shadows of even small things into impossible monsters."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"This book isn’t dedicated to you, Susan, but I know you’ll read it one day. So I just wanted to let you know you still owe me the rest of my security deposit. Hope those books of yours are going well!"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"Our world is an artful illusion—of light, color, and sound. It feels spontaneous when you’re in it, but it isn’t. Beneath it all, or above it all, there’s something both significant and unknowable. A…"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

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21. Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)

By: Rin Chupeco

3.98

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Remy Pendergast is many things: the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne (though his father might wis… read more

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  • lgbt
"Can't I just have a little bit of slaughter? I'm sure they won't notice."

-Rin Chupeco, Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)

"He was too soft, like his father had said. Must have gotten it from his mother. And then he wondered if his mother had only been soft because she'd loved his father. Like kindness had ever been a sin."

-Rin Chupeco, Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)

"[Xiaodan] '...Perhaps you're being unduly hard on yourself, milord.' 'Armiger,' Remy said, before he could stop himself. 'Not milord.' 'Armiger. That means "arm's bearer," doesn't it? But why choose …"

-Rin Chupeco, Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)

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22. A Dragonbird in the Fern

By: Laura Rueckert

3.88

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

When an assassin kills Princess Jiara’s older sister Scilla, her vengeful ghost is doomed to walk t… read more

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23. Colony Two Mars (Colony Mars #2)

By: Gerald M. Kilby

4.02

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. The sole survivor of the ill-fated… read more

Similar categories in Gerald M. Kilby's Colony Two Mars (Colony Mars #2) book and Cindy Zhang's The Network

  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Dark Nest Chronicles

By: Leanna Renee Hieber

3.47

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

Compiled into a single volume for the first time, discover Leanna Renee Hieber’s award-winning Dark… read more

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25. Red Dust (Cuban Science Fiction)

By: Yoss

3.49

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond… read more

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  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • audiobook
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26. How We End

By: L.M. Juniper

4.31

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly infection. Seven Strangers. The fight for survival begins... Jake didn’t think his nigh… read more

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  • science fiction
  • lgbt
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27. Symphony for a Deadly Throne (Mousai, #3)

By: E.J. Mellow

4.11

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning author E. J. Mellow comes the third and final installment in the Mousai series, … read more

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  • audiobook
"The middle of the night is just as advantageous as the middle of the day."

-E.J. Mellow, Symphony for a Deadly Throne (Mousai, #3)

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28. Junket

By: Lauren Groff

2.47

Format: 27 pages, Audiobook

In these over-busy, stress-rich days, what sounds better than a stay at a high-end spa, complete wi… read more

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29. Cyber Mage

By: Saad Z. Hossain

3.89

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2089. A city notorious for its extreme population density has found… read more

Similar categories in Saad Z. Hossain's Cyber Mage book and Cindy Zhang's The Network

  • science fiction
Cover of The Only Living Girl on Earth by Charles Yu

30. 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

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  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Network

By: Cindy Zhang

3.78

Format: 106 pages, ebook

Sabine is working on a mixed-species spaceship when it abruptly comes under attack by a strange mon… read more

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  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • audiobook
  • lgbt

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