13 must-read science fiction books like Hardfought by Greg Bear

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Hardfought

By: Greg Bear

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

The Nebula award-winning short story by master SF writer Greg Bear. Humans are engaged in a long wa…

If you liked the science fiction plot in Hardfought by Greg Bear , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3) by Octavia E. Butler

1. Lilith's Brood (Xenogenesis, #1-3)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.37

Format: 746 pages, Paperback

Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, Lech Jęczmyk

2. The Left Hand of Darkness

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"The king was pregnant."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"Truth is a matter of the imagination."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"The light is the left hand of darkness"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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3. Home (Binti, #2)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 260 pages, ebook

It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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4. Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

In this sequel to Dawn, Lilith Iyapo has given birth to what looks like a normal human boy named Ak… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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5. Hardfought

By: Greg Bear

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

The Nebula award-winning short story by master SF writer Greg Bear. Humans are engaged in a long wa… read more

Similar categories in Greg Bear's Hardfought book and Greg Bear's Hardfought

  • american
  • science fiction fantasy
  • war
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • military science fiction
  • science fiction
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6. Penric and the Shaman (Penric and Desdemona, #2)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

3.50

Format: 290 pages, ebook

In this NOVELLA set in The World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in "Penric's Demo… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric and the Shaman (Penric and Desdemona, #2) book and Greg Bear's Hardfought

  • short stories
  • fiction

7. The Willows

By: Algernon Blackwood

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood person… read more

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8. Grail (Jacob's Ladder, #3)

By: Elizabeth Bear

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Rife with intrigue and betrayal, heroism and sacrifice, Grailbrings Elizabeth Bear's brilliant spac… read more

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9. Binti (Binti, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.95

Format: 145 pages, ebook

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more

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10. Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The futures of both humans and Oankali rest in one young being's successful metamorphosis into adul… read more

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11. House of Suns

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a… read more

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12. The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.75

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor'… read more

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13. The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains

By: Neil Gaiman , Eddie Campbell

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The text of The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountainswas first published in the collection antholo… read more

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14. Embers of War (Embers of War, #1)

By: Gareth L. Powell

3.91

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

The warship Trouble Dog was built and bred for calculating violence, yet following a brutal war, sh… read more

Similar categories in Gareth L. Powell's Embers of War (Embers of War, #1) book and Greg Bear's Hardfought

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Permafrost

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.87

Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) by M.R. Carey

16. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

17. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) book and Greg Bear's Hardfought

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
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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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Machine (White Space, #2) by Elizabeth Bear

19. Machine (White Space, #2)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.92

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

In this compelling and addictive novel set in the same universe as the critically acclaimed White S… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"People are so complicated."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Then, oh shit, nanotech tentacles."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Sneaky manipulative bundle of code."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

"Anxiety was a distraction I did not need."

-Elizabeth Bear, Machine (White Space, #2)

Cover of Ancestral Night (White Space, #1) by Elizabeth Bear

20. Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

By: Elizabeth Bear

3.79

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Haimey Dz thinks she knows what she wants. She thinks she knows who she is. She is wrong. … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Rest,"

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I felt even more hollow than I had."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"Good thing for me you’re not a murderer."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

"I was raised in a clade. There is no real me."

-Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night (White Space, #1)

Cover of And Shall Machines Surrender (Machine Mandate, #1) by Benjanun Sriduangkaew

21. And Shall Machines Surrender (Machine Mandate, #1)

By: Benjanun Sriduangkaew

3.82

Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition

On the dyson sphere Shenzhen, artificial intelligences rule and humans live in luxury, vying to be … read more

Similar categories in Benjanun Sriduangkaew's And Shall Machines Surrender (Machine Mandate, #1) book and Greg Bear's Hardfought

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction

14 best-selling fiction books like Hardfought by Greg Bear

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Octavia E. Butler

4.37

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The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk

4.10

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Home (Binti, #2)

Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

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Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)

Octavia E. Butler

3.89

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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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Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.11

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.04

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