13 Best science fiction fantasy books like Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1) by T.S. Beier

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Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

By: T.S. Beier

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

At the far edge of cultivated space, a derelict ship rests. Ten times larger than the biggest Terra…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1) by T.S. Beier , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)

By: Ray Porter , Dennis E. Taylor

4.37

Format: 311 pages, Audible Audio

Bob Johansson didn't believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was… read more

Similar categories in Ray Porter's For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
"What does kaheerakah mean?"

-Ray Porter, For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)

"I always wanted to be a bad influence."

-Ray Porter, For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)

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2. Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Holly Black

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the realm of very scary faeries! Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and ind… read more

Similar categories in Holly Black's Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

3. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

By: Ann Leckie

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more

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4. Guns of the Dawn

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Shortlisted for the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel Guns of the Dawnis a pacey,… read more

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5. Valiant (Modern Faerie Tales #2)

By: Holly Black

4.16

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has … read more

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6. All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.57

Format: 140 pages,

Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for alm… read more

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7. 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

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
"(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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8. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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9. Glitterland (Spires, #1)

By: Alexis Hall

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In the past, the universe is a glitterball I hold in the palm of my hand. In the past, I am bri… read more

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"...I would have told a thousand lies to have him, and a thousand more to keep him."

-Alexis Hall, Glitterland (Spires, #1)

"I’m not here because I’m broken. I’m here because I’m whole. Difficult, potentially undeserving, but whole. And I don’t need you, I just want you. I want you"

-Alexis Hall, Glitterland (Spires, #1)

"I half imagined I could taste the silver on his nails, as sharp as glitter in my mouth. Maybe when he touched me, colour would spill from his hands like heat."

-Alexis Hall, Glitterland (Spires, #1)

"I felt him move and turned my head to deflect his kiss so that it landed on the side of my jaw instead of my mouth. It shimmered there briefly like some iridescent, impossible butterfly."

-Alexis Hall, Glitterland (Spires, #1)

Cover of The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1) by Micaiah Johnson

10. The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

By: Micaiah Johnson

3.94

Format: 336 pages, None

An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fr… read more

Similar categories in Micaiah Johnson's The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
"Of course, humanity couldn't just look. We had to enter. We had to touch and taste and take."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"„An angel fallen from the sky, with my name on her back so I would know the gift was meant for me."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"It is only one world in infinite universes where this impossible happiness exists, but that is what makes it so valuable."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

"I confused routine for reliability and reliability for safety. I had no idea the chaos I was capable of holding inside me."

-Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

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11. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Eversion book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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12. The Darkness Outside Us

By: Eliot Schrefer

4.32

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Two boys, alone in space. After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither re… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Schrefer's The Darkness Outside Us book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
"Wow, that was salty. I kind of like it,"

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Today he smells like motor oil. It's sort of exotic-erotic."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

"I can manually debug a few hundred thousand lines. It won't be fun, but I ... who am I kidding, it will be fun."

-Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

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13. Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about… read more

Similar categories in Fonda Lee's Untethered Sky book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
"People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

"I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was."

-Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

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14. Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.29

Format: 17 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 16 hours and 57 minutes Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, ep… read more

Similar categories in Dennis E. Taylor's Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
"Subtlety: I no haz it."

-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

"Sadly, it was like most political arguments. No one was willing to debate their base assumptions or justify them or compromise on them. The simple tactic being that if you repeated your assertion oft…"

-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

"We'd gotten onto the concept or morality and Frida had just asked Theresa how she could have any sense of morality without a deity to define what was or was not moral. [...] "What deities give you ar…"

-Dennis E. Taylor, Heaven's River (Bobiverse, #4)

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15. 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

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
"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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16. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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17. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Ghost Station book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • horror
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18. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • horror
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19. Rubicon

By: J.S. Dewes

3.93

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

Sergeant Adrienne Valero wants to die. She can't. After enduring a traumatic resurrection for th… read more

Similar categories in J.S. Dewes's Rubicon book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
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20. Ion Curtain

By: Anya Ow

3.47

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Lieutenant Kalina Sokolova is aid to Counter-Admiral Kasparov the major strategist for the Russian … read more

Similar categories in Anya Ow's Ion Curtain book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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21. Don't Bloody the Black Flag (Malitu)

By: James Lloyd Dulin

4.35

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

The fight for peace is often a war. To end nearly a century of war plaguing Ennea, a clan of nom… read more

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22. Waybound (Cradle, #12)

By: Will Wight

4.64

Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition

The final book in the Cradle series! Years ago, Lindon left his home as a powerless Unsouled. No… read more

Similar categories in Will Wight's Waybound (Cradle, #12) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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23. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Binge's Ascension book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • horror
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

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24. A Lady for a Duke

By: Alexis Hall

4.07

Format: 460 pages, Paperback

A lush, sweeping queer historical romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material—perfect… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Hall's A Lady for a Duke book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

"I will never forget him. But"

-Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

"Don’t try to tell me that time is a healer because time also kills people."

-Alexis Hall, A Lady for a Duke

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25. A Rulebook for Restless Rogues (Lucky Lovers of London, #2)

By: Jess Everlee

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Jess Everlee follows up her sparkling debut The Gentleman's Book of Vices  with this charming queer… read more

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26. Skin of the Sea (Skin of the Sea, #1)

By: Natasha Bowen

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A way to survive.A way to serve.A way to save. Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves the… read more

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"Do not be ashamed of who you are."

-Natasha Bowen, Skin of the Sea (Skin of the Sea, #1)

"When you pull back the skin of the sea, you never know what you will find."

-Natasha Bowen, Skin of the Sea (Skin of the Sea, #1)

"Simidele. Listen to me. I know you will make things right. What is done is done. We cannot change the past, only learn from it. What happens next is up to you."

-Natasha Bowen, Skin of the Sea (Skin of the Sea, #1)

Cover of Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5) by Dennis E. Taylor

27. Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5)

By: Dennis E. Taylor

4.38

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed … read more

Similar categories in Dennis E. Taylor's Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
Cover of Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1) by T.S. Beier

28. Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

By: T.S. Beier

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

At the far edge of cultivated space, a derelict ship rests. Ten times larger than the biggest Terra… read more

Similar categories in T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • horror
Cover of The Fall is All There Is (Four of Mercies, #1) by C.M. Caplan

29. The Fall is All There Is (Four of Mercies, #1)

By: C.M. Caplan

3.96

Format: 415 pages, ebook

All Petre Mercy wanted was a good old-fashioned dramatic exit from his life as a prince. But it's b… read more

Similar categories in C.M. Caplan's The Fall is All There Is (Four of Mercies, #1) book and T.S. Beier's Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1)

  • science fiction

19 Top science fiction books like Escaping First Contact (The Burnt Ship #1) by T.S. Beier

Transform Your Habits

For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)

Ray Porter , Dennis E. Taylor

4.37

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

Malka Ann Older

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

Micaiah Johnson

3.94

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21 best-selling fiction books like Rubicon by J.S. Dewes

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

M.R. Carey

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

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