9 Top speculative fiction books like Zeitgeber by Greg Egan

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Zeitgeber

By: Greg Egan

3.58

Format: 39 pages, ebook

For millions of years, life on Earth has taken its cues from the rising and setting of the sun, and…

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Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

1. 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

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and Greg Egan's Zeitgeber

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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)

2. Passing Strange

By: Ellen Klages

4.23

Format: 11 pages, ebook

San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the ci… read more

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3. Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1)

By: Lavie Tidhar

4.02

Format: 32 pages, ebook

No vampire is ever innocent… The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for … read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law (Judge Dee, #1) book and Greg Egan's Zeitgeber

  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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5. World Engines: Destroyer

By: Stephen Baxter

3.82

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

Hundreds of years in the future, on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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6. Blood Is Another Word for Hunger

By: Rivers Solomon

3.67

Format: 25 pages, ebook

Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can gr… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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7. Counting Casualties

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.69

Format: 18 pages, ebook

Commander Niaja vrau Erezeng is up against an enemy that doesn’t just destroy all the beings, ships… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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8. The Touches

By: Brenda Peynado

3.51

Format: 27 pages, ebook

Brenda Peynado's "The Touches" is a Tor.com Original short story set in a post-apocalyptic world Sa… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
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9. An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands

By: Fran Wilde

2.91

Format: 16 pages, ebook

Fran Wilde's fantasy short story "An Explorer's Cartography of Already Settled Lands" is a Tor.com … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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10. For He Can Creep

By: Siobhan Carroll

4.22

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Nineteenth century poet Christopher Smart has been committed to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics be… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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11. Seonag and the Seawolves

By: M. Evan MacGriogair

3.72

Format: 33 pages, ebook

Seonag is born on a day where the clouds race each other across the sky. A clan storyteller unfo… read more

Similar categories in M. Evan MacGriogair's Seonag and the Seawolves book and Greg Egan's Zeitgeber

  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. Articulated Restraint

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.85

Format: 26 pages, ebook

Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And some… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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13. The Time Invariance of Snow

By: E. Lily Yu

3.36

Format: 25 pages, ebook

The Devil made a mirror. A physicist broke it and shards fall through reality and changed everythin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
"Love ’em, leave ’em. Sometimes I even leave them alive"

-E. Lily Yu, The Time Invariance of Snow

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14. Beyond the Dragon's Gate

By: Yoon Ha Lee

3.73

Format: 20 pages, ebook

Former Academician Anna Kim’s research into AI cost her everything. Now, years later, the military … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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15. Old Media

By: Annalee Newitz

3.38

Format: 25 pages, ebook

The story of a freed slave and a robot professor, trying to figure out what it means to be in love … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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16. City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat

By: Usman T. Malik

3.84

Format: 50 pages, ebook

In this spell-binding tale, a Pakistani storyteller captivates a group of wide-eyed tourists with a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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17. What It Means To Be A Car

By: James Patrick Kelly

3.61

Format: 15 pages, ebook

An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt… read more

Similar categories in James Patrick Kelly's What It Means To Be A Car book and Greg Egan's Zeitgeber

  • science fiction
  • short stories
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18. Anything Resembling Love

By: S. Qiouyi Lu

3.84

Format: 23 pages, ebook

All her life Sylvia has made sure to never let anyone see the centipedes that emerge from her body.… read more

Similar categories in S. Qiouyi Lu's Anything Resembling Love book and Greg Egan's Zeitgeber

  • short stories
  • fiction
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19. Brainbox

By: Christian Cantrell

3.61

Format: None pages, ebook

When the Earth begins cooling unexpectedly, humanity is left with only a few degrees of habitable l… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
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20. The Song

By: Erinn L. Kemper

3.22

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful near future story about two people on a whale-processing rig: one a researcher, the othe… read more

Similar categories in Erinn L. Kemper's The Song book and Greg Egan's Zeitgeber

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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21. His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

By: Mimi Mondal

3.56

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

I am not a fighter. I am a trapeze master. An act of compassion puts a trapeze artist in India… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
"I'll be honest - I had never heard anything like that. Not that I ever understood the elaborate social intricacies of the upper classes, but I always knew that I did not trust them, and her story jus…"

-Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

"Priests were born into the Brahmin caste, and I had met enough Brahmins in my life to know that not all of them were priests, or even had a shred of spirituality in them. Usually they were arrogant a…"

-Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

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22. Set in Stone

By: K.J. Parker

3.97

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

A sculptor struggles when he is commanded to perpetuate the lies of a deceitful and cruel king... read more

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  • short stories
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23. Zeitgeber

By: Greg Egan

3.58

Format: 39 pages, ebook

For millions of years, life on Earth has taken its cues from the rising and setting of the sun, and… read more

Similar categories in Greg Egan's Zeitgeber book and Greg Egan's Zeitgeber

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • australia
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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24. Water: A History

By: K.J. Kabza

3.71

Format: 18 pages, ebook

The planet of Quányuán is arid to the point of being uninhabitable. Wetness is a concept left back … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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25. Deriving Life

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.77

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

In Deriving Life, love has no time limits, but life does. Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear gives… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"I can never go back,"

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"I felt awful and I did an awful thing."

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"It’s my life to spend as I please, isn’t it?"

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

"Impossibility doesn’t make the wanting go away."

-Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

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26. Blue Morphos in the Garden

By: Lis Mitchell

3.54

Format: 22 pages, Kindle Edition

Read Lis Mitchell's magical realist tale, Blue Morphos in the Garden, a Tor.com original short stor… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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27. Skinner Box

By: Carole Johnstone

3.40

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

"Skinner Box," a Tor.com Original short story from award-winning author Carole Johnston.A disturbin… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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28. One/Zero

By: Kathleen Ann Goonan

3.25

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

A near future novelette about the surge in AI that might bring hope to humanity if used well. In… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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29. Beyond the El

By: John Chu

3.34

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

Connor is a food crafter just getting back into the business after his mother’s death. To cope with… read more

Similar categories in John Chu's Beyond the El book and Greg Egan's Zeitgeber

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Livesuit (The Captive’s War #1.5) by James S.A. Corey

30. Livesuit (The Captive’s War #1.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.45

Format: 90 pages, ebook

Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the e… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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31. Spill (Little Brother)

By: Cory Doctorow

4.46

Format: 111 pages, ebook

In a new Little Brother novella, there is no security in obscurity. But there can be redemption in … read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction

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4.01

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4.02

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

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Stephen Baxter

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C.L. Polk

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Daryl Gregory

3.91

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Claire Wrenwood

3.30

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