29 must-read science fiction books like Doomsday Game (The Apocalypse Duology, #3) by Gary Gibson

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Doomsday Game (The Apocalypse Duology, #3)

By: Gary Gibson

3.95

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

"...a master of core sf" - The Guardian.Rozalia is a Pathfinder, dedicated to exploring parallel Ea…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Doomsday Game (The Apocalypse Duology, #3) by Gary Gibson , here is a list of 29 books like this:

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1. Polity Agent (Agent Cormac, #4)

By: Neal Asher

4.23

Format: 562 pages, Paperback

From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming … read more

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"It all came back to human time and utterly human impulses: in the end, gods did not appreciate godlike power, but humans did."

-Neal Asher, Polity Agent (Agent Cormac, #4)

"Thus, in moments of catastrophe, when hard decisions needed to be made quickly, all AIs included in their calculations a human death toll governed by a factor called ‘pigheadedness’."

-Neal Asher, Polity Agent (Agent Cormac, #4)

"Coloron often pondered how a race, in which the stupid seemed more inclined to breed, had managed to come this far, and why human intelligence persisted—a discussion point in the nature vs nurture de…"

-Neal Asher, Polity Agent (Agent Cormac, #4)

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2. The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

By: Iain M. Banks

4.28

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Culture - a humanoid/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players. One of … read more

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  • science fiction
"Escape is a commodity like anything else"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"Escape is a commodity like anything else."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called “Gurgeh."

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

"The ship told you a guilty system recognises no innocents. I’d say it does. It recognises the innocence of a young child, for example, and you saw how they treated that. In a sense it even recognises…"

-Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (Culture, #2)

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3. Newton's Wake: A Space Opera

By: Ken MacLeod

2.00

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture-a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive… read more

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  • science fiction

4. Nosferatu

By: Peter Cawdron

3.92

Format: 368 pages,

Vampires walk among us, using folklore to hide, and relying on superstitions to discredit the very … read more

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5. The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

Format: 491 pages, Paperback

When a spy is stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, she must first figure out how to sur… read more

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  • science fiction
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6. 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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"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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7. Detonation Boulevard

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, … read more

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  • science fiction
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8. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • science fiction
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9. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

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  • science fiction
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10. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

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  • science fiction
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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

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"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. 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

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  • science fiction
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13. 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
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14. 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
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15. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more

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  • science fiction
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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

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  • science fiction
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17. Scorpio (Frontlines: Evolution, #1)

By: Marko Kloos

4.14

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

On a distant Earth colony, an orphaned survivor of an alien invasion discovers that the greatest wo… read more

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  • science fiction
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18. The Misfit Soldier

By: Michael Mammay

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ocean’s Eleven meets John Scalzi in this funny, action-filled, stand-alone sci-fi adventure from th… read more

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  • science fiction
"As I passed through the door, I reached up and unpinned the lieutenant’s rank from my collar, then weighed the major’s insignia in my hand for a moment before pinning it on. My implant unhelpfully pr…"

-Michael Mammay, The Misfit Soldier

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19. The Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds, #2)

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

4.21

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the D… read more

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  • science fiction
"A woman in possession of a bomb is in want of a reason to use it." "Oh god help us, she's been reading old shit again." Kuma said. "Hanging up now," Naira said. "Tell me if anything blows up that's n…"

-Megan E. O'Keefe, The Fractured Dark (The Devoured Worlds, #2)

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20. Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

By: K.J. Parker

4.08

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Orhan, son of Siyyah Doctus Felix Praeclarissimus, and his history of the Grea… read more

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"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it."

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

"My guess is, they couldn't sleep, and they had the kind of generous nature that reckons insomnia isn't something you hoard all for yourself, you share it with your friends and loved ones."

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

"My belief is, either you understand things or you understand people. Nobody can do both. Frankly, I’m happier with things. I understand stuff like tensile strength, shearing force, ductility, work ha…"

-K.J. Parker, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege, #1)

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21. 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

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  • science fiction
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22. Beyond the Reach of Earth (Lightspeed Trilogy, #2)

By: Ken MacLeod

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

THE FERMI ARE AWAKE. With the invention of faster-than-light travel there is nowhere that humani… read more

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  • science fiction
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23. The Outside (The Outside, #1)

By: Ada Hoffmann

3.80

Format: 401 pages, ebook

Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the futu… read more

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  • science fiction
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24. Imperial Privateer (Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire, #5)

By: Andrew Moriarty

4.56

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Dirk's old problems are gone. New ones are moving in!Dirk and company can rest easy. The ship isn't… read more

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  • science fiction
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25. Ripe

By: James Hider

4.12

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

2023 San Francisco Book Festival WINNER - Science Fiction "Prepare to be swept away with this rive… read more

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  • science fiction
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26. The Art of War

By: Peter Cawdron

4.53

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

Commander Lisa Chao works in the US Navy’s Strategic Planning Center in Pearl Harbor. When tensions… read more

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27. The Dark Side (Alex Hunter, #9)

By: Greig Beck

4.33

Format: 363 pages, ebook

Hundreds of thousands of miles away on the dark side of the moon, the Russian lunar base has self-d… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Beyond the Light Horizon (Lightspeed Trilogy, #3) by Ken MacLeod

28. Beyond the Light Horizon (Lightspeed Trilogy, #3)

By: Ken MacLeod

4.11

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

'IF YOU LIKE SCIENCE FICTION YOU WILL LOVE THIS. . . A ROLLICKING GOOD READ' Scotsman on Beyond the… read more

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Cover of The Bound Worlds (The Devoured Worlds, #3) by Megan E. O'Keefe

29. The Bound Worlds (The Devoured Worlds, #3)

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Worlds will collide and fates will be rewritten in the thrilling conclusion to the Devoured Worlds … read more

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  • science fiction
"Being injured is something of a lifestyle choice for Nai."

-Megan E. O'Keefe, The Bound Worlds (The Devoured Worlds, #3)

"I may go away, sometimes. But as long as it's in my power, I'll always come back."

-Megan E. O'Keefe, The Bound Worlds (The Devoured Worlds, #3)

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30. Doomsday Game (The Apocalypse Duology, #3)

By: Gary Gibson

3.95

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

"...a master of core sf" - The Guardian.Rozalia is a Pathfinder, dedicated to exploring parallel Ea… read more

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  • science fiction
  • alternate history
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31. The Accidental War (Dread Empire's Fall #4)

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.94

Format: 499 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox tactics by a r… read more

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  • science fiction

21 Best science fiction books like Beyond the Light Horizon (Lightspeed Trilogy, #3) by Ken MacLeod

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Gary Gibson

4.17

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Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

M.R. Carey

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