15 Top science fiction books like Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy) by Kung Li Sun

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Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

By: Kung Li Sun

4.44

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Begin the World Over is a fictional alternate history of how the Founders’ greatest fear—that Black…

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1. The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

By: Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.28

Format: 627 pages, Paperback

Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Lan… read more

Similar categories in Eric J. Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • politics
"Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remembe…"

-Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

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2. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Always afraid, never a coward"

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"On a whim, I went with him. I could always stab him if he tried anything, after all."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

3. Ammonite

By: Nicola Griffith

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly… read more

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4. The Custom of the Country

By: Edith Wharton , Linda Wagner-Martin

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet… read more

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5. Hild

By: Nicola Griffith

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, us… read more

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6. These Truths: A History of the United States

By: Jill Lepore

4.40

Format: 960 pages, Paperback

Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more

Similar categories in Jill Lepore's These Truths: A History of the United States book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • politics
"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

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7. Cosmoknights, Vol. 1 (Cosmoknights, #1)

By: Hannah Templer

4.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game. Pan's… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Templer's Cosmoknights, Vol. 1 (Cosmoknights, #1) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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8. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • novels
  • fiction
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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9. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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10. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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11. 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

Similar categories in Moses Ose Utomi's The Lies of the Ajungo (Forever Desert, #1) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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12. The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

By: The Care Collective

3.80

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it? The Care Manifesto puts… read more

Similar categories in The Care Collective's The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • politics
"Una visione politica realmente globale richiede allora di abbracciare quello che definiamo un cosmopolitismo quotidiano, una cura promiscua su scala globale che porti la nostra visione della cura al …"

-The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

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13. The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert, #2)

By: Moses Ose Utomi

4.17

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Moses Ose Utomi returns to his Forever Desert series with The Truth of the Aleke , continuing his e… read more

Similar categories in Moses Ose Utomi's The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert, #2) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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14. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

Similar categories in Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • politics
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15. The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change r… read more

Similar categories in Sim Kern's The Free People's Village book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • politics
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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16. Grievers (Grievers, #1)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.04

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A tale of what happens when we can no longer ignore what has been lost in this world. Grievers i… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Grievers (Grievers, #1) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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17. The Dawnhounds (The Endsong, #1)

By: Sascha Stronach

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A police officer is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with pro… read more

Similar categories in Sascha Stronach's The Dawnhounds (The Endsong, #1) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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18. Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

By: Nicola Griffith

4.48

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

In the much anticipated sequel to Hild, Nicola Griffith's Menewood transports readers back to seven… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Griffith's Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I hate thorns,"

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

"You are Christian?"

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

"Cadwallon is like a hawk,"

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

"If people felt safe, they stayed."

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

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19. Palestine +100

By: Basma Ghalayini

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like i… read more

Similar categories in Basma Ghalayini's Palestine +100 book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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20. We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

By: Margaret Killjoy

4.39

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Death cults, queer love, and the end of everything. Spaceships, man-eating lesbian mermaids, sw… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Let the apocalypse not be the lifting of the veil, let it be the lowering."

-Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories

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21. An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Las Leonas, #2)

By: Adriana Herrera

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An Entertainment Weekly "Best Romance Novels of Spring 2023" Pick! One last summer.  For Manu… read more

Similar categories in Adriana Herrera's An Island Princess Starts a Scandal (Las Leonas, #2) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. A Country of Ghosts

By: Margaret Killjoy

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But w… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's A Country of Ghosts book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I’ll never figure out if I’m supposed to let worry get the best of me,"

-Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

"All people are free. When we speak of freedom, we acknowledge that freedom is a relationship between the people of the society. This relationship of freedom is created by the means of mutual respect,…"

-Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

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23. Station Six

By: S.J. Klapecki

3.35

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

A hard science-fiction space opera with a queer protagonist. Sixty million miles from Earth, in… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Klapecki's Station Six book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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24. The Z Word

By: Lindsay King-Miller

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“Sexy, scathing, delightful, and intimately devastating.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay King-Miller's The Z Word book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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25. Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy

By: carla joy bergman

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Solidarity begins at home: a primer on freedom and equality in families and households. Trust K… read more

Similar categories in carla joy bergman's Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • politics
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26. Maroons (Grievers, #2)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.41

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

The search for hope and community in death and desolation. The pandemic of Syndrome H-8 continues t… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Maroons (Grievers, #2) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
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27. Escape from Incel Island

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.89

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a golden opportunity: any… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Killjoy's Escape from Incel Island book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • dystopia
  • fiction
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28. Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

By: Kung Li Sun

4.44

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Begin the World Over is a fictional alternate history of how the Founders’ greatest fear—that Black… read more

Similar categories in Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy) book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry by Adrienne Maree Brown

29. Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.38

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Fables and Spells, a gathering of adrienne maree brown’s short stories and poems, is a vibrant sele… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition by Rinaldo Walcott

30. On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition

By: Rinaldo Walcott

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship … read more

Similar categories in Rinaldo Walcott's On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition book and Kung Li Sun's Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)

  • politics
Cover of JesusDevil: The Parables (Emergent Strategy, 8) by Alexis De Veaux

31. JesusDevil: The Parables (Emergent Strategy, 8)

By: Alexis De Veaux

4.20

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

A brilliantly crafted voyage of queer, black possibility. Evocative and experimental, JesusDevil i… read more

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20 must-read fiction books like Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy) by Kung Li Sun

Transform Your Habits

The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

Margaret Killjoy

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Cosmoknights, Vol. 1 (Cosmoknights, #1)

Hannah Templer

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Tamsyn Muir

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

Malka Ann Older

4.01

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

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