18 Best science fiction books like The Starfarers Series Books 3–4: Metaphase * Nautilus by Vonda N. McIntyre

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The Starfarers Series Books 3–4: Metaphase * Nautilus

By: Vonda N. McIntyre

4.58

Format: 796 pages, Kindle Edition

The final two books in “the most important series in science fiction” from the New York Times–bests…

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1. Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

By: C.J. Cherryh

3.90

Format: 526 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A legend among sci-fi readers, C. J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels, while separate and complete i… read more

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"Their minds were geared to the old problems and to their own problems and their own politics."

-C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

"It was a scientific success, bringing back data enough to keep the analysts busy for years… but there was no glib, slick way to explain the full meaning of its observations in layman’s terms. In publ…"

-C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

"What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated is…"

-C.J. Cherryh, Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1)

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2. The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)

By: Ellis Peters

4.08

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the … read more

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"There's an art in every labour."

-Ellis Peters, The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)

"Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case."

-Ellis Peters, The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)

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3. The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

By: Ellis Peters

4.16

Format: 250 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the Summer of 1143, two visitors arrive at the gates of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul … read more

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"What are wits for unless a man uses them?"

-Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

"One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man."

-Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

"They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think."

-Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

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4. Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set (Mistborn, #1-3)

By: Brandon Sanderson

4.13

Format: 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The New York Timesbestselling series from Brandon Sanderson. This boxed set contains:    read more

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5. The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down i… read more

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6. The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)

By: Helene Wecker

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling jo… read more

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7. The Spacetime Pool

By: Catherine Asaro

4.57

Format: None pages, ebook

From the Kindle description of the book: Three short works from Catherine Asaro, author of the Skol… read more

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8. 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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9. 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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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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"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)

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11. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.03

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more

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"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

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12. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

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13. Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

By: James Clavell

4.41

Format: 1152 pages, Paperback

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and e… read more

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"I can't use hope against swords."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"What is pain to a man? A privilege!"

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now ."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

"Horses are far worse than men for treachery..."

-James Clavell, Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)

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

16. 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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"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)

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17. Defiance (Foreigner #22)

By: C.J. Cherryh

4.36

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

The twenty-second book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Came… read more

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18. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

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19. 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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20. 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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21. Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

By: Ellis Peters

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

November, 1145. While Cadfael has bent Abbey rules, he has never broken his monastic vows--until no… read more

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"The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears."

-Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

"In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right…"

-Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

"It may be that God is reminding me that I am approaching my November. Well, why regret it? November has beauty, has seen the harvest into the barns, even laid by next year's seed. No need to fret abo…"

-Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

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22. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

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"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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23. Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel i… read more

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24. Knot of Shadows (Penric and Desdemona, #11)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.30

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

When a corpse is found floating face-down in Vilnoc harbor that is not quite as dead as it seems, T… read more

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25. An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1141, two monks have arrived in Shrewsbury from Winchester, where their abbey was destroyed. Now… read more

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"Well, God’s vision is clearer than mine, he may both see a way out of this tangle and open my eyes to it when the time is ripe. There’s a path through every forest, and a safe passage somewhere throu…"

-Ellis Peters, An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)

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26. The Starfarers Series Books 3–4: Metaphase * Nautilus

By: Vonda N. McIntyre

4.58

Format: 796 pages, Kindle Edition

The final two books in “the most important series in science fiction” from the New York Times–bests… read more

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

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Gary Gibson

4.17

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The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

Cory Doctorow

4.13

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