13 Top space books like Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

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Six Wakes

By: Mur Lafferty

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -…

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1. Six Wakes

By: Mur Lafferty

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • science fiction

2. Brightness Falls from the Air

By: James Tiptree Jr.

3.98

Format: None pages,

They have gathered now on Damiem and are about to witness the last rising of a manmade nova. They a… read more

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3. Planetfall

By: Emma Newman

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret… read more

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4. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • science fiction
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5. 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 Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fiction
"(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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6. The Polymorph

By: Max Nowaz

4.29

Format: None pages, ebook

Arbitrator, Jim Brown is returning to Earth after completing a successful mission to put down a rev… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire." "And you? What are your plans?" "I have no plans to kill your father."

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

"Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you ca…"

-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

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7. The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1)

By: Megan E. O'Keefe

4.11

Format: 491 pages, Paperback

When a spy is stranded on a dead planet with her mortal enemy, she must first figure out how to sur… read more

Similar categories in Megan E. O'Keefe's The Blighted Stars (The Devoured Worlds, #1) book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fiction
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8. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fiction
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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9. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

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10. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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11. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • space
  • science fiction
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12. The Luminous Dead

By: Caitlin Starling

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • science fiction
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13. Some Desperate Glory

By: Emily Tesh

4.06

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more

Similar categories in Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fiction
"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."

-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory

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14. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • science fiction
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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15. The Light Brigade

By: Kameron Hurley

3.89

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…dif… read more

Similar categories in Kameron Hurley's The Light Brigade book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"The power of the corrupt governments and entrenched corporations feels inevitable. No doubt so did the rule of kings and landowners before them. But I know better now. I know there is a greater power…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

"You have War of the Worlds?" I asked the knu. It returned twenty different films, sixteen editions of a text, but no radio play. Radio drama. That's the word Tanaka had used. One text said it was his…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

"When I’m old and dying, wheezing my guts out, my organs failing, I want to walk out the front door of some old farmhouse on my own land, maybe forty, fifty hectares of it. I want to find a cool place…"

-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade

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16. 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 Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • science fiction
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17. 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 Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
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18. Under Fortunate Stars

By: Ren Hutchings

3.93

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven's f… read more

Similar categories in Ren Hutchings's Under Fortunate Stars book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fiction
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19. Dead Space

By: Kali Wallace

3.70

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science … read more

Similar categories in Kali Wallace's Dead Space book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • science fiction
"I was never given a choice, I wanted to say, but I couldn't bring myself to speak the words aloud. It was true, and it was a comforting lie. We always had a choice. It was just that the companies we …"

-Kali Wallace, Dead Space

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20. The Last Astronaut

By: David Wellington

3.61

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Mission Commander Sally Jansen is Earth’s last astronaut–and last hope–in this gripping near-future… read more

Similar categories in David Wellington's The Last Astronaut book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
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21. Salvation Day

By: Kali Wallace

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic th… read more

Similar categories in Kali Wallace's Salvation Day book and Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space

19 Top fiction books like Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

Transform Your Habits

Six Wakes

Mur Lafferty

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Polymorph

Max Nowaz

4.29

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18 Best fiction books like Translation State by Ann Leckie

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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