12 Best science fiction books like Rescue at Io (The Salvagers #0) by John Michael Godier

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Rescue at Io (The Salvagers #0)

By: John Michael Godier

3.94

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

A stand alone novelette set twenty years before the events of the “The Salvagers” series, Lt. Lazar…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Rescue at Io (The Salvagers #0) by John Michael Godier , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Alloy of Law (Mistborn, #4)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.38

Format: 613 pages,

Centuries after the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is on the verge of modernity - railroads, electric s… read more

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2. Shadows of Self (Mistborn, #5)

By: Brandon Sanderson

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Hardcover

Shadows of Selfshows Mistborn's society evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, de… read more

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3. The Salvagers

By: None

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Set four centuries in the future, salvager Captain Camden D. Hunter and his crew find the richest s… read more

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4. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more

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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

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5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.17

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for th… read more

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"My God -- it's full of stars! -Dave Bowman."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

". . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

"Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything."

-Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

6. The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor'… read more

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7. Seveneves

By: Neal Stephenson

4.50

Format: None pages,

What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time b… read more

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8. Rama II (Rama #2)

By: Arthur C. Clarke , Gentry Lee

3.70

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Rama est revenu ! Rama, ou plutôt son double, son clone, son jumeau : Rama II. Soixante-dix ans plu… read more

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"It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?"

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"What had been a perceived threat, a lien in a sense on future human behavior, was quickly reduced to a historical curiosity."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

"Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rama II (Rama #2)

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9. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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10. 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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11. The Last Conversation

By: Paul Tremblay

3.76

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning autho… read more

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"Soon. You keep saying soon. I don't think you and I share that words meaning."

-Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

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12. Ark

By: Veronica Roth

3.60

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a… read more

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"Well, you can’t love everything equally,"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year— those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"Well, you can't love everything equally," she said. "You just can't - and if you did, then it's the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear because that's what love …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"Why, she had once asked her mother, do you bother to keep anything alive when it’ll all be wiped out by Finis? Her mother had shrugged. Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

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13. Emergency Skin

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.03

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subver… read more

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"We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources …"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

"No, there’s no one left alive on Tellus. The planet was in full environmental collapse across every biome when our people left. There were just too many people, and too many of those were unfit, infi…"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

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14. You Have Arrived at Your Destination

By: Amor Towles

3.49

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of th… read more

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  • science fiction
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15. 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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16. Summer Frost

By: Blake Crouch

4.10

Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition

A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bend… read more

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"Because sometimes life is so rich and complicated and surprising that it takes your breath away."

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

"There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of 'real'. There is only information, viewed subjectively, which is allowed by consciousness…"

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

"There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of 'real'. There is only information, viewed subjectiveyly, which is allowed by consciousnes…"

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

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17. Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.18

Format: 146 pages, ebook

When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Eac… read more

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"It's also not fair at all that stupidity has gotten you this far. That's another creature you've killed simply by having no brains, which makes anyone with brains feel as if it isn't worth the headac…"

-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

"If one does nothing but think of someone, it takes up all the time you could use to do something about them. I wish nobody thought of me, but did a lot for me instead. It's just like someone else goi…"

-Tamsyn Muir, Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower

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18. Rescue at Io (The Salvagers #0)

By: John Michael Godier

3.94

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

A stand alone novelette set twenty years before the events of the “The Salvagers” series, Lt. Lazar… read more

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  • science fiction

21 must-read fiction books like Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir

Transform Your Habits

Bryony and Roses

T. Kingfisher

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children, #9)

Seanan McGuire

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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