5 Best thriller books like Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1) by M.V. Melcer

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Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

By: M.V. Melcer

4.06

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A DISTANT COLONY SHROUDED IN SILENCE. In the vast expanse of space, Bethesda – humanity's first e…

If you liked the thriller plot in Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1) by M.V. Melcer , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. 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
  • space opera
"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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2. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
  • space opera
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

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3. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
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4. The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

By: Cory Doctorow

4.13

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of t… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2) book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
  • thriller
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5. The Object

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.19

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thi… read more

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  • science fiction
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6. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

By: Samit Basu

3.59

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rul… read more

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  • science fiction
"You exist, and you deserve to belong."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"Usually when my life goes according to plan, it turns out the plan was made by someone else"

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"It's all very clear, I just chose not to get it, I just decided everyone who didn't agree with my vision was lying, or a fool."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

"I don't want to talk about this. It's not that I think you're wrong, but it's too big for me. I'll never be able to do anything about it."

-Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

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7. 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

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  • science fiction
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8. 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
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9. These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1)

By: Bethany Jacobs

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire that spans star systems, built on the bones … read more

Similar categories in Bethany Jacobs's These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
  • space opera
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10. 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
  • space opera
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11. Ghostdrift (Finder Chronicles, #4)

By: Suzanne Palmer

4.59

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

The fourth and final installment of the Finder Chronicles, a hopepunk sci-fi caper described as Mac… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
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12. Mal Goes to War: A Novel

By: Edward Ashton

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and… read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
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13. Exordia

By: Seth Dickinson

3.78

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's Exordia book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
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14. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)

By: L.M. Sagas

3.92

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Sagas's Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
  • space opera
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15. The Immortal: A Medical Thriller

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.32

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

They called it the Immortality Code……and one Swiss firm just cracked it.Is it real or a fraud?FBI g… read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
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16. Carpathians

By: Paul Dixon

4.34

Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic First Contact story on a galactic scale. Humans have reached the stars, but there is no ev… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
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17. The Mars Anomaly: Hard Science Fiction

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Solar Flare took out the world’s power……nobody could explain why the street lights still g… read more

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  • science fiction
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18. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
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19. Splendor's Orbit (The MacLee Chronicles #1)

By: Jina S. Bazzar

4.10

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Ten years ago, Captain Colderaro was the star of the Confederacy Task Force. And then she went miss… read more

Similar categories in Jina S. Bazzar's Splendor's Orbit (The MacLee Chronicles #1) book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
  • space opera
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20. The Anatomy of Courage

By: Peter Cawdron

4.62

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr. Christopher Walters has been assigned to a medical evac team serving on the front line of the w… read more

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  • science fiction
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21. Cloaked Deception

By: Timothy Zahn

4.19

Format: 683 pages, Kindle Edition

From Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award winner and # New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Heir to … read more

Similar categories in Timothy Zahn's Cloaked Deception book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
  • thriller
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22. The Wrong Button

By: David Collins

4.29

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

Jerry Anderson was an astronaut faced with an impossible die of asphyxiation in a few hours or see… read more

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23. Engines of Oblivion (The Memory War, #2)

By: Karen Osborne

3.78

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Karen Osborne continues her science fiction action and adventure series the Memory War with Engines… read more

Similar categories in Karen Osborne's Engines of Oblivion (The Memory War, #2) book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
  • space opera
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24. Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

By: M.V. Melcer

4.06

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A DISTANT COLONY SHROUDED IN SILENCE. In the vast expanse of space, Bethesda – humanity's first e… read more

Similar categories in M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1) book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • space opera
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25. Descent (The Palladium Wars, #4)

By: Marko Kloos

4.36

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

A nationalist uprising triggers an interstellar wrest for control in an epic novel of embattled wor… read more

Similar categories in Marko Kloos's Descent (The Palladium Wars, #4) book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
  • space opera
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26. New Adventures in Space Opera

By: Jonathan Strahan

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Have you ever wanted a faster-than-light trip to the future? Are you tired of reading science ficti… read more

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  • science fiction
  • space opera
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27. BROKEN EARTH: DEVASTATION

By: Barbara J. Barker

4.27

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you ready for the end of the world? Brace yourself for a thrilling ride as the Earth is deliver… read more

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28. Wraith (The Convergence War Book 1)

By: M.R. Forbes

4.40

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

A retired captain. An experimental starship. A war like no other. When the research starship Galil… read more

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29. The Meteor: Science Fiction Thriller

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.24

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

The new page-turner from million-selling author Joshua T. Calvert!From the darkness of space……a glo… read more

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30. Killing Stroke (Backyard Starship Book 23)

By: J.N. Chaney

4.67

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The stars have come to Iowa, and the earth will never be the same.With the Nexus up and running, Va… read more

Similar categories in J.N. Chaney's Killing Stroke (Backyard Starship Book 23) book and M.V. Melcer's Refractions (The Guardian Cycle #1)

  • science fiction
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31. The Meteor 2

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.44

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassandra 22007 continues to hold the world in its grip. After the destruction of large parts of Lo… read more

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