22 best-selling science fiction books like Good News from the Vatican by Robert Silverberg

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Good News from the Vatican

By: Robert Silverberg

3.52

Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever since I read Baron Corvo’s remarkable novel HADRIAN THE SEVENTH long ago I have amused myself …

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1. The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Mr. Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The sto… read more

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2. The Adventure of the ‘Western Star': A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Audio

Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn … read more

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3. A Little Journey

By: Ray Bradbury

3.85

Format: 288 pages,

About the Story: A LITTLE JOURNEY (August 1951) marks Bradbury's final contribution to the editoria… read more

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4. The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.53

Format: 256 pages, ebook

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5. Tau Zero

By: Poul Anderson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two… read more

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6. Chickamauga

By: Ambrose Bierce

3.73

Format: 216 pages,

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7. 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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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"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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8. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

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9. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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11. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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13. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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14. 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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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"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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15. 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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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"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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16. 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
  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. Cold Eyes

By: Peter Cawdron

4.42

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

COLD EYES is a FIRST CONTACT tribute to the 1974 science fiction classic, THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE. … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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18. 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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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"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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19. The Object

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.19

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thi… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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20. The Girl Who Was Plugged In

By: James Tiptree Jr.

3.56

Format: 35 pages, None

James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon) is primarily renowned for her short fiction, but this piece,… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"There's nothing in the news except what they want people to know. Half the country could burn up and nobody would know it if they didn't want."

-James Tiptree Jr., The Girl Who Was Plugged In

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21. 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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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"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

Cover of 2023 SciFi Anthology (The Science Fiction Novelists, #3) by S.A. Gibson

22. 2023 SciFi Anthology (The Science Fiction Novelists, #3)

By: S.A. Gibson

3.90

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Hunger by Marc NeufferThe Committee by DJ CamdenTime Seeds by Marc NeufferThe Ghost and the Machine… read more

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23. The Breakthrough Effect: A Science-Fiction Thriller

By: Douglas E. Richards

4.26

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping near-future thriller by the author whose books have sold more than three million copie… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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24. The Fossil 2 (Secrets of Mars #2)

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.11

Format: 421 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Filio Amorosa has had one goal, and only one goal: getting back to Mars. All that matter… read more

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  • science fiction
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25. The Fossil 3 (Secrets of Mars #3)

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.00

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

t’s been twenty years since the first manned mission to Mars discovered a human fossil on the Red P… read more

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  • science fiction
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26. The Fossil

By: Joshua T. Calvert

4.15

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

A human fossil on Mars. An astronaut who lost her memory and a powerful organization that keeps a s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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27. The Eyes Have It and Other Stories (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Philip K. Dick

4.02

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

First published in sci-fi magazines of the 1950s, these early stories from Philip K. Dick showcase … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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28. Gauntlet Wars: Mind Raider (Star Force Book 90)

By: Aer-ki Jyr

4.32

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

The Paladin's quest to save the Andromeda galaxy begins to escalate as they seize a disputed planet… read more

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  • science fiction
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29. Spring Into SciFi 2024 Edition

By: Cloaked Press

4.16

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

15 Tales of SciFi sure to delight the imagination.Join these talented authors for adventures AI, a… read more

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30. Gauntlet Wars: Fateless Victory (Star Force Book 91)

By: Aer-ki Jyr

4.57

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

A Gauntlet War may seem inevitable. Multiple dominant races from different galaxies converge to ann… read more

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31. Good News from the Vatican

By: Robert Silverberg

3.52

Format: 12 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever since I read Baron Corvo’s remarkable novel HADRIAN THE SEVENTH long ago I have amused myself … read more

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19 must-read fiction books like Good News from the Vatican by Robert Silverberg

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Ann Leckie

4.09

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Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

Veronica Roth

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

Ann Leckie

3.65

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Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

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

Malka Ann Older

3.64

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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John Scalzi

4.16

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