13 Best science fiction books like Take Us to a Better Place by Madeline Ashby

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Take Us to a Better Place

By: Madeline Ashby

3.48

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

A profound and unforgettable original story collection about well-being and the future of health an…

"I know a few who have learned the hard way that a luxury bunker is too narrow a world at any price. No more moats and walls. We will tend the garden for everyone."

-Madeline Ashby, Take Us to a Better Place

"She believed in her soul that they saw each other’s flaws, each crack and fissure, and that their love filled them with the same promise: I see you, all of you, all the things you don’t want the world to know. I see what you’re ashamed of, what terrifies you, and I still choose you."

-Madeline Ashby, Take Us to a Better Place

If you liked the science fiction plot in Take Us to a Better Place by Madeline Ashby , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) by Martha Wells

1. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

By: Martha Wells

4.15

Format: 144 pages, ebook

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated space-farin… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) book and Madeline Ashby's Take Us to a Better Place

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an “oh shit"

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

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2. Gravity Falls: Journal 3

By: Alex Hirsch , Rob Renzetti , Andy Gonsalves , Stephanie Ramirez

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Journal 3brims with every page ever seen on the Gravity Fallsshow plus all-new pages with monsters … read more

Similar categories in Alex Hirsch's Gravity Falls: Journal 3 book and Madeline Ashby's Take Us to a Better Place

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction

3. Nine Goblins

By: T. Kingfisher

4.12

Format: 428 pages, ebook

When a party of goblin warriors find themselves trapped behind enemy lines, it'll take more than wh… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction

4. Incognito

By: Suzanne Allain

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

INCOGNITO is a historical romantic comedy set in Regency England that should appeal to fans of Jane… read more

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5. Stories of the Raksura, Volume 1: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud

By: Martha Wells

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

In The Falling World, Jade, ruler of the Indigo Cloud Court, has travelled with Chime and Balm to a… read more

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6. 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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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(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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7. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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8. Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

By: Martha Wells

4.26

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I was tired of pretending to be human. I needed a break."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"Pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

"I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other."

-Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)

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9. 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

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) book and Madeline Ashby's Take Us to a Better Place

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"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 Pages to Fill (Legends & Lattes, #0.5) by Travis Baldree

10. Pages to Fill (Legends & Lattes, #0.5)

By: Travis Baldree

3.63

Format: 33 pages, ebook

Short story prequel to Legends & Lattes. It is available in the book Legends & Lattes, second editi… read more

Similar categories in Travis Baldree's Pages to Fill (Legends & Lattes, #0.5) book and Madeline Ashby's Take Us to a Better Place

  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

By: Martha Wells

4.31

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. When M… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans so the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

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12. Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

By: Martha Wells

4.38

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it res… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4) book and Madeline Ashby's Take Us to a Better Place

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Why is this ship so old and shitty?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"I was having an emotion, and I hate that."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"But they were humans— who knows why they did anything?"

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

"Once I started telling the truth, it was hard to stop."

-Martha Wells, Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)

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13. 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 fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells

14. Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

By: Martha Wells

4.47

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear. It worries about the fragile human cre… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) book and Madeline Ashby's Take Us to a Better Place

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Ugh, emotions."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"So, you have a relationship with this transport."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

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15. The Black God's Drums

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.01

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A Sorceress Comes to Call book and Madeline Ashby's Take Us to a Better Place

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Siege (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5) by Guillermo del Toro

17. Siege (The Boy in the Iron Box, #5)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.07

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

The mercenaries set an explosive scheme in motion to blow this bad dream to smithereens. But in par… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunted (The Boy in the Iron Box, #3) by Guillermo del Toro

18. The Hunted (The Boy in the Iron Box, #3)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.08

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

Their radio is sabotaged. The wolves are gathering outside. And for the increasingly desperate merc… read more

Similar categories in Guillermo del Toro's The Hunted (The Boy in the Iron Box, #3) book and Madeline Ashby's Take Us to a Better Place

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Encounter (The Boy in the Iron Box, #6) by Guillermo del Toro

19. Encounter (The Boy in the Iron Box, #6)

By: Guillermo del Toro

4.06

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

Dawn breaks, but the nightmare only intensifies in the shocking finale of The Boy in the Iron Box. … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Take Us to a Better Place

By: Madeline Ashby

3.48

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

A profound and unforgettable original story collection about well-being and the future of health an… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Ashby's Take Us to a Better Place book and Madeline Ashby's Take Us to a Better Place

  • science fiction fantasy
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I know a few who have learned the hard way that a luxury bunker is too narrow a world at any price. No more moats and walls. We will tend the garden for everyone."

-Madeline Ashby, Take Us to a Better Place

"She believed in her soul that they saw each other’s flaws, each crack and fissure, and that their love filled them with the same promise: I see you, all of you, all the things you don’t want the worl…"

-Madeline Ashby, Take Us to a Better Place

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Martha Wells

4.15

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Alex Hirsch , Rob Renzetti , Andy Gonsalves , Stephanie Ramirez

3.98

Nine Goblins

T. Kingfisher

4.12

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4.22

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Hannah Kaner

3.90

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

Seanan McGuire

4.09

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T. Kingfisher

4.00

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