18 must-read science fiction books like Sanctuary (The Aftermath, #3) by Dave Hutchinson

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Sanctuary (The Aftermath, #3)

By: Dave Hutchinson

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The stunning return to Dave Hutchinson's post-apocalyptic vision of the future in a world ravaged b…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Sanctuary (The Aftermath, #3) by Dave Hutchinson , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Places in Between

By: Rory Stewart

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more

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2. 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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"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)

3. The Inverted World

By: Christopher Priest

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be fr… read more

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4. Why I Write

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unp… read more

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5. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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6. The Ferryman

By: Justin Cronin

3.93

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a… read more

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7. 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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"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)

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8. 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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"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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9. The Twyford Code

By: Janice Hallett

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more

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"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"

-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code

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10. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

By: Janice Hallett

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more

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11. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

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12. The Last Murder at the End of the World

By: Stuart Turton

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Wat… read more

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13. Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii, #1)

By: Miles Cameron

4.32

Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition

Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships.With their vast cargo holds and… read more

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  • science fiction
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14. Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

By: Edward Ashton

3.75

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee … read more

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"I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for who they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if y…"

-Edward Ashton, Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

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15. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

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"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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16. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

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17. A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

By: K.J. Parker

4.15

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A Practical Guide to Conquering the World can be read by itself, but for those who like endings it … read more

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"I really don’t understand why people go on about how wonderful the truth is. In my experience, all it does is make trouble."

-K.J. Parker, A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

"My life has been so universally shitty that either I lose it or improve it, I'm not really bothered which, just so long as it doesn't carry on the way it's been so far."

-K.J. Parker, A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

"Comedy to observers, tragedy to participants; I consider myself an observer. I fly over my life like a migrating bird, and I only ever play for beans or counters, never for real money."

-K.J. Parker, A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

"The truth, I’ve found, is like an annoying little dog that takes a fancy to you in the street and follows you home, barking. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I’ve been glad …"

-K.J. Parker, A Practical Guide to Conquering the World (The Siege, #3)

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18. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

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19. The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.60

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Chaos. Fury. Destruction. The Great Change is upon us... Some say that to change the world yo… read more

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"...how's your leg?"

-Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

"Absolutes are never to be trusted."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

"I never did a thing to deserve loyalty like that.' 'Sometimes loyalty's an excuse for something else."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

"...if enough people got angry enough, they could change things. Now anger was the answer to everything."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

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20. And Put Away Childish Things

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bodie’s been called into the delightful fantasy world of his grandmother’s beloved children’s… read more

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"Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Ah, yes, hindsight, always my weapon of choice."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes there's a place where fiction and reality meet. Folklore, myth, you know."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

"Sometimes a wardrobe is just a wardrobe. Sometimes books are just books. That's why we call it fiction."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, And Put Away Childish Things

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21. Vigilance

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

3.72

Format: 208 pages, ebook

Robert Jackson Bennett's Vigilance is a dark science fiction action parable from an America that ha… read more

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22. The Doors of Eden

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.87

Format: 609 pages, ebook

Lee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of … read more

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23. The Half Life of Valery K

By: Natasha Pulley

4.20

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set i… read more

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"Guilt like that, it's a sort of arrogance, you know? An assumption that everything is your own fault when that's clearly absurd."

-Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K

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24. Hokey Pokey

By: Kate Mascarenhas

3.34

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

February, 1929. The Regent Hotel in Birmingham is a place of deception and glamour. Behind its … read more

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"I’ve never wanted to be compliant,"

-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

"If that memory were false, she didn’t know how the trust the rest."

-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

"Merlini Sat up in bed with the cautiousness of someone who has read too many cheap ghost stories, trying not to catch the attention of shadows."

-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

"Quarrington recognised this feeling from heavy snowfalls in prior years. He theorists that hotels should be for pleasure, or business, but never an emergency in a storm. As soon as people were confin…"

-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey

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25. Conquest

By: Nina Allan

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Rachel's boyfriend Frank is different from other people. His strangeness is part of what she loves … read more

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26. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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27. Sanctuary (The Aftermath, #3)

By: Dave Hutchinson

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The stunning return to Dave Hutchinson's post-apocalyptic vision of the future in a world ravaged b… read more

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28. The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate

By: Adam Roberts

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A gothic tale of murder and corruption set in 1840s Victorian London, taking inspiration from our m… read more

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29. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

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30. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

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31. Lake of Darkness

By: Adam Roberts

4.00

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Good is a construct. Evil is a virus.The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sß Oubliette were in orb… read more

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18 must-read fiction books like Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii, #1) by Miles Cameron

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

Eversion

Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.20

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