25 must-read fiction books like Floornight by nostalgebraist

Floornight

By: nostalgebraist

3.79

Format: 156 pages, ebook

In the near future, science has discovered and investigated the reality of the soul, a top-secret f…

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Cover of Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) by William Gibson

1. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

Cover of Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) by Iain M. Banks

2. Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

By: Iain M. Banks

3.85

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Better still to have problems than to let death eradicate them all...."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Look on the happy side, think of the good things. Hadn't it been clever? Yes, it had."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

"The Jinmoti of Bozlen Two kill the hereditary ritual assassins of the new Yearking's immediate family by drowning them in the tears of the Continental Empathaur in its Sadness Season."

-Iain M. Banks, Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

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3. The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

By: R. Scott Bakker

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series creates a world from whole cloth-its l… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Void Star by Zachary Mason

4. Void Star

By: Zachary Mason

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality Not far i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

5. 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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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"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)

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6. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

Cover of A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2) by Vernor Vinge

7. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.32

Format: 775 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstell… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"So even in hell, there are clowns."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know"

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"So high, so low, so many things to know."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

"The light shining through was a rainbow from hell."

-Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)

8. Rationality: From AI to Zombies

By: Eliezer Yudkowsky

3.50

Format: None pages,

What does it actually mean to be rational? Not Hollywood-style "rational," where you forsake all hu… read more

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9. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

Cover of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) by Dan Simmons

10. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.27

Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"You have to live to really know things, my love"

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

11. Mathematics Made Difficult

By: None

4.27

Format: 412 pages,

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12. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

By: Eliezer Yudkowsky

3.86

Format: 258 pages, ebook

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a work of alternate-universe Harry Potter fan-fictio… read more

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13. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

By: Vernor Vinge

4.14

Format: 613 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that … read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"We're endangered by our own success."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

"Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased."

-Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

14. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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15. A Short Stay in Hell

By: Steven L. Peck

4.22

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"

-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

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16. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

Cover of The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley, Erik Desmazieres

17. The Library of Babel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley , Erik Desmazieres

4.35

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

Jorge Luis Borges's famous 1941 meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains al… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"O Time thy pyramids."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"If honor and wisdom and happiness are not for me, let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

Cover of All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man by Nemo Ramjet

18. All Tomorrows: The Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man

By: Nemo Ramjet

4.21

Format: 111 pages, ebook

The story begins in the near future, as burgeoning population pressures force humanity to terraform… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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19. There Is No Antimemetics Division

By: qntm

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, disc… read more

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  • science fiction
  • weird fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"Welcome to the Antimemetics Division. No, this is not you first day."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It’s not of reality, not of humanity. It is from a higher, worse place, and it is descending."

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"It began as an experiment in advanced propaganda. The objective was to cut through the physical conflict and find a way to rupture the ideological machine, to obliterate the idea of Nazism. After two…"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

"We don't have an Antimemetics Division," Clay says. "Yes, you do. We do." O5-8 says, "We have a Memetics Division, a Telekontainment Division, Fire Services, Ops-A, Ops-B, Personnel, D-personnel and …"

-qntm, There Is No Antimemetics Division

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20. Exhalation

By: Ted Chiang

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of hu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"The universe began as an enormous breath being held."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I"

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

"even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not."

-Ted Chiang, Exhalation

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21. Randomize

By: Andy Weir

3.53

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3) by Naomi Novik

22. The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

By: Naomi Novik

4.13

Format: 407 pages, ebook

Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to t… read more

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  • fiction
"Les seuls miracles que nous recevons jamais sont ceux que nous façonnons nous-mêmes, et nous payons par avance pour chacun d'entre eux."

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"Intent doesn't matter, she'd say, when you've really injured someone else. You need to be open to their pain and anger if you're ever to make things whole between you."

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"We're all greedy, but children make it easier to be. We feel it's only right to give them everything we can grab, even when you know that anything you feed your own child still comes out of someone e…"

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

"The tea was even offered exactly in the same way that Americans always did it, namely with the faint hint that they didn’t really understand why I might like some tea, but they understood that this w…"

-Naomi Novik, The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

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23. Ra

By: qntm

4.11

Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition

Magic is real. Discovered in the 1970s, magic is now a bona fide field of engineering. There's m… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by qntm

24. Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories

By: qntm

4.34

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, de… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2) by Naomi Novik

25. The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

By: Naomi Novik

4.25

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

A budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets abou… read more

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  • fiction
"I think my eyebrows had packed bags and migrated three counties north."

-Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

"Why don't I just kill them all as they come in?" Orion said, without the slightest doubt in his ability to kill a billion mals. "Shut up, Lake," I said, having many doubts about his ability to kill a…"

-Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)

Cover of Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (Tales of the Weird) by Henry Bartholomew

26. Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (Tales of the Weird)

By: Henry Bartholomew

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Unlike the Gothic, which tends to fixate on the past, the haunted, and the ghostly, early weird fic… read more

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  • science fiction
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
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27. Fine Structure

By: qntm

4.07

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Fledgling physicist Ching-Yu Kuang has discovered a Rosetta Stone for all of physics, a treasure tr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
Cover of 17776: What football will look like in the future by Jon Bois

28. 17776: What football will look like in the future

By: Jon Bois

4.68

Format: None pages, None

17776, also known as What Football Will Look Like in the Future, is a serialized speculative fictio… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"Now they are resting in a moment that will last until the end of time."

-Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future

"Who was it who said, uh, “even if life is forever, each moment of it is a miracle?"

-Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future

"That terror wasn't natural. No other creature in the universe woke up every morning knowing it was guaranteed to die one day. Just us."

-Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future

"I wonder if there's a single place in the whole world that's never had a story. I bet not. I just about guarantee you there's no places like that in America. Every little square of it, every place yo…"

-Jon Bois, 17776: What football will look like in the future

29. Floornight

By: nostalgebraist

3.79

Format: 156 pages, ebook

In the near future, science has discovered and investigated the reality of the soul, a top-secret f… read more

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  • science fiction
  • weird fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction

30. Chili and the Chocolate Factory: Fudge Revelation

By: gazemaize

4.13

Format: None pages, None

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22 Best science fiction books like Floornight by nostalgebraist

Transform Your Habits

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

William Gibson

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1)

Iain M. Banks

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Void Star

Zachary Mason

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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Transform Your Habits

Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)

Greg Egan

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Ship of Fools

Richard Paul Russo

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Gone World

Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

Transform Your Habits

The Divine Farce

Michael S.A. Graziano

4.11

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