17 must-read science fiction books like Null States by Malka Ann Older

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Null States

By: Malka Ann Older

3.33

Format: 288 pages, ebook

"Kinetic and gripping" NPRon Infomocracy Null Statescontinues the Centenal Cycle, the series beginn…

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1. Null States

By: Malka Ann Older

3.33

Format: 288 pages, ebook

"Kinetic and gripping" NPRon Infomocracy Null Statescontinues the Centenal Cycle, the series beginn… read more

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  • politics
  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction

2. Hammers on Bone (Persons Non Grata, #1)

By: Cassandra Khaw

3.98

Format: 176 pages, ebook

John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He's been hi… read more

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3. 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

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
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"(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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4. 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

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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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5. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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6. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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7. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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8. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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9. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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10. The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

By: Cory Doctorow

4.13

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • politics
  • fiction
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11. 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
  • dystopia
  • fiction
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12. The Water Outlaws

By: S.L. Huang

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a classic of martial arts literature, S. L. Huang's The Water Outlaws are bandits of de… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

By: Cory Doctorow

3.90

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."

-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

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14. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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15. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying (Dark Lord Davi, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a … read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Rose/House

By: Arkady Martine

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Dust jacket illustration by David Curtis. Arkady Martine, the acclaimed author of the Teixcalaan… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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17. The Death I Gave Him

By: Em X. Liu

3.37

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller Hayden Lichf… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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18. 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
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"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)

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19. The Fallen (The Outside, #2)

By: Ada Hoffmann

3.84

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The laws of physics acting on the planet of Jai have been forever upended; its surface completed al… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Interference (Semiosis, #2) by Sue Burke

20. Interference (Semiosis, #2)

By: Sue Burke

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The sequel to Sue Burke's sweeping SF epic debut, Semiosis, continues in Interference as the coloni… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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21. The Sleepless

By: Victor Manibo

3.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the … read more

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  • science fiction
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