22 Best science fiction books like Tomorrow by Chris Beckett

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Tomorrow

By: Chris Beckett

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

'Tomorrow I'm going to begin my novel...' A would-be author has taken time out from life in the …

If you liked the science fiction plot in Tomorrow by Chris Beckett , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of The Floating Admiral by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton, Freeman Wills Crofts, Clemence Dane, Victor L. Whitechurch, The Detection Club, Anthony Berkeley, Ronald Knox, Edgar Jepson, Henry Wade, Milward Kennedy, John Rhode, G.D.H. Cole, Margaret Cole

1. The Floating Admiral

By: Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G.K. Chesterton , Freeman Wills Crofts , Clemence Dane , Victor L. Whitechurch , The Detection Club , Anthony Berkeley , Ronald Knox , Edgar Jepson , Henry Wade , Milward Kennedy , John Rhode , G.D.H. Cole , Margaret Cole

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. Bu… read more

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  • fiction
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"We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see on…"

-Agatha Christie, The Floating Admiral

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2. The Human Division (Old Man's War, #5)

By: John Scalzi

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Following the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the u… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

3. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

By: Richard Dawkins , Dave McKean

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world… read more

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4. Quarantine (Subjective Cosmology #1)

By: Greg Egan

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

It causes riots and religions. It has people dancing in the streets and leaping off skyscrapers. An… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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5. A Maze of Death

By: Philip K. Dick

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

Delmak-O is a dangerous planet. Though there are only fourteen citizens, no one can trust anyone el… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction

6. Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: None pages,

Ursula K. LeGuin follows her classic trilogy from Earthsea with a magical tale that won the 1991 Ne… read more

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7. The Midwich Cuckoos

By: John Wyndham

3.91

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitant… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that."

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

"But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, wom…"

-John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

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8. Notes from the Burning Age

By: Claire North

3.74

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the most imaginative writers of her generation comes an extraordinary vision of the fut… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Grief never leaves, but life layers itself on top of the pain"

-Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age

"You do not fix grief; there is no pill. You only wait, and be there, and let time pass."

-Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age

"Here's the history of the world for you. Here's what the burning left behind. You want gods, and all you get are people."

-Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age

"Why I joined Temple!" Lah would say. "Tea, nice music, decent architecture!" "And the devotion of your life to awe, gratitude, compassion, and respect?" "Yes yes yes - all that stuff too."

-Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age

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9. Europa Deep

By: Gary Gibson

4.17

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Echogenesis and Stealing Light comes a gripping 22nd Century adventure set among… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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10. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

Cover of Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

11. 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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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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12. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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13. The Raven Tower

By: Ann Leckie

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Can you hear me now? I'm talking to you."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"What is it that makes language a far more powerful—and risky—tool for gods than it is for even humans? What is it that makes gods gods? What am I?"

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Given a bit more time he might have realized that what kept him alive was the same god whose continued existence drained his power so relentlessly."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important—except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

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14. White Holes

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of HappyHead (HappyHead, #1) by Josh  Silver

15. HappyHead (HappyHead, #1)

By: Josh Silver

4.04

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, 2024 Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing, 2024 An Ama… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Womb City

By: Tlotlo Tsamaase

3.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which be… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Last Murder at the End of the World

By: Stuart Turton

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Wat… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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19. 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
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1) by Darren Charlton

21. Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)

By: Darren Charlton

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Winter was the only season every Lake-Lander feared... In a post-apocalyptic America, a communit… read more

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  • fiction
"Open places make you consider yourself?" "Yeah," said Cooper. "Like the plains." "And the stars?" "Uh-huh. And the sea and the desert too, Pa says. But I dunno why that is." Peter shrugged. "Perhaps …"

-Darren Charlton, Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)

"Cooper didn't look away. His blue eyes pierced through the tendrils of his hair like a wolf in the woods. He held Peter's gaze. He didn't smile, but Peter saw one all the same. He didn't speak and ye…"

-Darren Charlton, Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)

Cover of Semiosis (Semiosis, #1) by Sue Burke

22. Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

By: Sue Burke

3.91

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"A Pax day and night lasted about twenty Earth hours, and a Pax year about 490 Earth days. A year seemed like such a long time."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"... what bothered them more were the pink slugs twenty centimeters long they found eating old carcasses. The slugs would attack anything and dissolved living flesh on contact."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

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23. Julia

By: Sandra Newman

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."

-Sandra Newman, Julia

Cover of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

24. How High We Go in the Dark

By: Sequoia Nagamatsu

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's resea… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Death has become a way of life"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Life is always easier for boys."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"She always preferred celestial objects to people."

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

"Embrace possibility, but don't let it drag you down"

-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

Cover of Ascension by Nicholas Binge

25. 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

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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26. The Little Snake

By: A.L. Kennedy

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and flutterin… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Beyond the Burn Line

By: Paul McAuley

3.53

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

A novel about posthuman Earth, colonisation, Ufology, and secret histories. It's two hundred thous… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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28. Mischief Acts

By: Zoe Gilbert

3.78

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Herne the hunter, mischief-maker, spirit of the forest, leader of the wild hunt, hurtles through th… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold Water (The Fractured Europe Sequence) by Dave Hutchinson

29. Cold Water (The Fractured Europe Sequence)

By: Dave Hutchinson

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A dazzling, visionary and original thriller of future espionage, broken borders, and impossible sec… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Evidence by Christopher Priest

30. The Evidence

By: Christopher Priest

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Todd Fremde is an author, a writer of police procedurals and criminal mysteries. Invited to the rem… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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31. Tomorrow

By: Chris Beckett

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

'Tomorrow I'm going to begin my novel...' A would-be author has taken time out from life in the … read more

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  • fiction
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28 Top fiction books like Tomorrow by Chris Beckett

Transform Your Habits

The Floating Admiral

Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G.K. Chesterton , Freeman Wills Crofts , Clemence Dane , Victor L. Whitechurch , The Detection Club , Anthony Berkeley , Ronald Knox , Edgar Jepson , Henry Wade , Milward Kennedy , John Rhode , G.D.H. Cole , Margaret Cole

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Human Division (Old Man's War, #5)

John Scalzi

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Quarantine (Subjective Cosmology #1)

Greg Egan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

A Maze of Death

Philip K. Dick

3.66

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16 Best fiction books like Semiosis (Semiosis, #1) by Sue Burke

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Noumenon

Marina J. Lostetter

3.00

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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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The Polymorph

Max Nowaz

4.29

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