24 best-selling science fiction fantasy books like The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

By: Gardner Dozois

4.04

Format: 709 pages, Kindle Edition

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories. I…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois , here is a list of 24 books like this:

Cover of Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

1. Chasm City

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has bee… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Void Star by Zachary Mason

2. Void Star

By: Zachary Mason

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality Not far i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

3. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Cover of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel

4. Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

By: Sylvain Neuvel

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls th… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction

5. Blackflame (Cradle, #3)

By: Will Wight

3.77

Format: 352 pages,

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6. Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

By: Sylvain Neuvel

3.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within … read more

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Cover of The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe

7. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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8. 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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9. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

10. 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

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"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)

Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

11. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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

12. 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
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
"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)

Cover of Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9) by James S.A. Corey

13. Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.54

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Wi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Let's solve the extinction level threat first. Then we can all go back to killing each other at a civilized pace."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9)

Cover of Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) by M.R. Carey

14. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

15. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
Cover of Randomize by Andy Weir

16. Randomize

By: Andy Weir

3.53

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
Cover of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

17. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Stars and Bones (Continuance #1) by Gareth L.   Powell

18. Stars and Bones (Continuance #1)

By: Gareth L. Powell

3.66

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the multi BSFA award-winner comes a stunningly inventive action-packed science-fiction epic ad… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Mal Goes to War: A Novel by Edward Ashton

19. 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
  • fiction
Cover of Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0) by Christopher Paolini

20. Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

By: Christopher Paolini

3.44

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited pla… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"The melatonin hit like a meteorite"

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

"That was the moment he had fallen for her. It wasn't love at first sight. Hell, it wasn't even lust at first sight. But it was close enough."

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

"Sometimes the universe decided to rip apart your life and stomp on the pieces, and there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it except say, "Now what?"

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

"Perhaps it existed only to stand in contrast with the whole nature, as if to say, "We were here." Alex wasn't sure if the thought was morbid or inspiring."

-Christopher Paolini, Fractal Noise (Fractalverse, #0)

Cover of To Hold Up the Sky by Liu Cixin

21. To Hold Up the Sky

By: Liu Cixin

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem, To Hold Up the Sky… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"If we’re going to be blind, let’s both be blind. If we’re going to be deaf, let’s both be deaf."

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

"There’s no reason to believe that the pace of life for all beings in the universe is like that of humanity."

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

"Imagine if DNA never made mistakes, always replicating and inheriting with perfect fidelity. What would life on Earth become?"

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

"The strongest feeling I’ve gotten from my time in this age is that we’re beyond the time when knowledge can explain everything."

-Liu Cixin, To Hold Up the Sky

Cover of Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0) by C. Robert Cargill

22. Day Zero (Sea of Rust, #0)

By: C. Robert Cargill

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this apocalyptic adventure C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between h… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1) by Mark  Lawrence

23. The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)

By: Mark Lawrence

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the ice, east of the Black Rock, there is a hole into which broken children are thrown. On Ab… read more

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  • fiction
"Sometimes even the blind must wait and see."

-Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)

"There seemed nothing else to say. Sometimes all your words are the wrong shape and none of them will fit into the silence left when the conversation pauses."

-Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)

"She didn't know if the priests' poison was starting to infect her, or if this was just what growing up was - a series of compromises that twisted a child's idealism into something shameful."

-Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars (Book of the Ice, #1)

Cover of Blade (Inverted Frontier Book 4) by Linda Nagata

24. Blade (Inverted Frontier Book 4)

By: Linda Nagata

4.33

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

The starship Dragon, accompanied by its fleet of outriders, is faring ever deeper into that region … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 by R.F. Kuang

25. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

By: R.F. Kuang

3.68

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times best… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
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  • science fiction
"The truce was over; the walls were up; they had reminded her why she'd abandoned them, which was that she could never really, properly, be one of them. And Letty, if she could not belong to a place, …"

-R.F. Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

Cover of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 3 by Neil Clarke

26. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 3

By: Neil Clarke

3.74

Format: 626 pages, Kindle Edition

As Earth dies, an architect is commissioned to remote build a monument on Mars from the remains of … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution by P.W. Singer

27. Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

By: P.W. Singer

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

An FBI agent teams up with the first police robot to hunt a shadowy terrorist in this gripping tech… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"You must have never driven in Boston."

-P.W. Singer, Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution

Cover of Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2) by M.R. Carey

28. Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2)

By: M.R. Carey

4.36

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Infinity Gate comes the second and final novel in the Pandominio… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

29. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois

30. The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

By: Gardner Dozois

4.04

Format: 709 pages, Kindle Edition

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories. I… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky

31. Saturation Point

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.93

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more

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29 Best fiction books like The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois

Transform Your Habits

Chasm City

Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Void Star

Zachary Mason

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

Sylvain Neuvel

5.00

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18 Best fiction books like Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

Cory Doctorow

4.13

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