16 Best science fiction books like Silent City (Corin Hayes, #1) by G.R. Matthews

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Silent City (Corin Hayes, #1)

By: G.R. Matthews

3.88

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

In the Corporation owned cities life is tough. All Hayes wants is money and a bar to spend it in. H…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Silent City (Corin Hayes, #1) by G.R. Matthews , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

By: C. Robert Cargill

4.05

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evo… read more

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  • science fiction
"America wasn’t its people,"

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

"People liked to believe in magic."

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

"No thinking thing should be another thing's property."

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

"But I had to dream. I had to hope. Even if it made me the fool of this particular tale."

-C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust (Sea of Rust, #1)

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2. The Grey Bastards (The Grey Bastards, #1)

By: Jonathan French

3.98

Format: 574 pages,

LIVE IN THE SADDLE. DIE ON THE HOG. Such is the creed of the half-orcs dwelling in the Lot Lands. … read more

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3. Rivers of London (Peter Grant, #1)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.12

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London's Metropolitan Police. Too… read more

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Cover of Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2) by Steven Erikson, Gabriel Stoian

4. Deadhouse Gates (The Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

By: Steven Erikson , Gabriel Stoian

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha'ik and her followers … read more

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5. Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #1)

By: Mark Lawrence

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I was born for killing - the gods made me to ruin. At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are ra… read more

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6. City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

By: Tad Williams

3.93

Format: 780 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the netwo… read more

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  • science fiction
"Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

"Welcome to the Information Jungle."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

"Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

"...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce."

-Tad Williams, City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)

7. Hell Divers (Hell Divers #1)

By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith

4.00

Format: None pages, Audio

More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity live… read more

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8. Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

By: Ed McDonald

4.10

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

The republic faces annihilation, despite the vigilance of Galharrow's Blackwings. When a raven tatt… read more

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"Just because the wolf pack fears your sling doesn’t mean you stop carrying stones."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

"Fight the battles you can win, run from those you can’t. Good words to keep you alive."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

"It is the way of the world that good people try to do the right thing for the wrong people's wrong reasons."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

"Just because he wasn’t Nameless didn’t make it smart to underestimate him; a knife may not be a longsword, but the edge will cut you all the same."

-Ed McDonald, Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

9. The Red: First Light (The Red #1)

By: Linda Nagata

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"There Needs To Be A War Going On Somewhere" Lieutenant James Shelley commands a high-tech squad of… read more

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10. The Kaiju Preservation Society

By: John Scalzi

3.99

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food deliv… read more

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  • science fiction
"I lift things."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"So we’re the monster police, too?"

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"...if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

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11. The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)

By: R.J. Barker

4.04

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

A saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the launch of a new fantasy from R.J. Barker… read more

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"So you will take me to die with you?"

-R.J. Barker, The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)

"Are there any other well-guarded places I should not be that you would like me to get into, Shipwife?"

-R.J. Barker, The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)

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12. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

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  • science fiction
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

Cover of Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) by Martha Wells

13. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

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  • science fiction
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

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14. Of Blood and Fire (The Bound and the Broken, #1)

By: Ryan Cahill

4.11

Format: 541 pages, Kindle Edition

Born in fire. Tempered in blood. Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords … read more

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"I told him that the sun will set, and it will rise again, and it will do so the next day and the next. The gods are in charge of such things, but it is by our own will that we pick ourselves up when …"

-Ryan Cahill, Of Blood and Fire (The Bound and the Broken, #1)

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15. Howling Dark (Sun Eater, #2)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.39

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fa… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen, #2) by John Gwynne

16. Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen, #2)

By: John Gwynne

4.43

Format: 640 pages, Kindle Edition

The Banished Lands is torn by war as High King Nathair sweeps the land challenging all who oppose h… read more

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"Don't punch at all if you can help it, he heard his father's voice, clear as if he were standing next to him, but if you must, punch first and punch hardest."

-John Gwynne, Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen, #2)

"I don't understand.' 'Yes, you do. You just do not want to. You humans are all the same. Willing to live a lie, any lie, as long as it is prettier than the truth. It's one of the few things that I lo…"

-John Gwynne, Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen, #2)

"He had had a taste of war now, though, and the thought of more of it filled him with dread. He was not scared, not of battle, anyway. It was more the knowledge of what came after - the loss of life, …"

-John Gwynne, Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen, #2)

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17. Demon in White (Sun Eater, #3)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.63

Format: 784 pages, Paperback

The third novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fan… read more

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  • science fiction
"Great is Truth, and mighty above all things."

-Christopher Ruocchio, Demon in White (Sun Eater, #3)

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18. Kingdoms of Death (Sun Eater, #4)

By: Christopher Ruocchio

4.47

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

The fourth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fa… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1) by Christopher Buehlman

19. The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which include… read more

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"This heavy, grass-loving dog,"

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"He who leaps at the moon Into cowshyte falls. Glory unto cowshyte!"

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"When listening for danger, one must never mistake silence for safety."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

"Funny how an attack by a sea monster makes everyone less interested in a duel."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)

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20. Walking to Aldebaran

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Chilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian … read more

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  • science fiction
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21. Nettle & Bone

By: T. Kingfisher

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra—the shy, convent-… read more

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"Our own flaws infuriate us in other people."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Run and be free. They cannot use what they cannot find."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Black dog, white dog, Live dog, dead dog, Yellow dog, run!"

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

"Dogs have human names. It's what keeps them from being wolves."

-T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

Cover of Ravencry (Raven's Mark, #2) by Ed McDonald

22. Ravencry (Raven's Mark, #2)

By: Ed McDonald

4.23

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Four years have passed since Nall’s Engine drove the Deep Kings back across the Misery, but as they… read more

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"To be a soldier takes some guts, some discipline, and some hardness. To be a deserter only takes the last."

-Ed McDonald, Ravencry (Raven's Mark, #2)

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23. The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1)

By: Moses Ose Utomi

4.21

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring wate… read more

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  • science fiction
Cover of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle

24. Lost in Time

By: A.G. Riddle

4.20

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

Control the past.Save the future. One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he … read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
"Our future is written in the past, and it's the adventure of a lifetime."

-A.G. Riddle, Lost in Time

Cover of Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1) by Craig Alanson

25. Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1)

By: Craig Alanson

4.26

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news.  The R… read more

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  • science fiction
"The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically ad…"

-Craig Alanson, Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1)

Cover of The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2) by John Gwynne

26. The Hunger of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga, #2)

By: John Gwynne

4.54

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

THE DEAD GODS ARE RISING. Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal pr… read more

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27. The Family Experiment

By: John Marrs

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and bril… read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
Cover of The Sunset Sovereign: A Dragon's Memoir by C.D. Houck

28. The Sunset Sovereign: A Dragon's Memoir

By: C.D. Houck

4.19

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

When a dragon finds an assassin sneaking into his lair, he tells her of his life's work and his soo… read more

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Cover of Silent City (Corin Hayes, #1) by G.R. Matthews

29. Silent City (Corin Hayes, #1)

By: G.R. Matthews

3.88

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

In the Corporation owned cities life is tough. All Hayes wants is money and a bar to spend it in. H… read more

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  • science fiction
  • thriller
Cover of Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L.  Wang

30. Blood Over Bright Haven

By: M.L. Wang

4.45

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have… read more

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  • science fiction

11 Top dark books like Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1) by Ed McDonald

Transform Your Habits

Blackwing (Raven's Mark, #1)

Ed McDonald

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3)

Richard Swan

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Priest of Lies (War for the Rose Throne, #2)

Peter McLean

4.28

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Priest of Crowns (War for the Rose Throne, #4)

Peter McLean

4.32

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