19 must-read fiction books like The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger

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The Exile Kiss

By: George Alec Effinger

3.15

Format: None pages,

Marid Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent Budayeen ghetto to being the ri…

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Cover of Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5) by Ben Aaronovitch

1. Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.20

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zo… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"But . . ."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

"Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

"The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

"There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

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2. Cockfighter

By: Charles Willeford

4.13

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The sport is cockfighting and Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary m… read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

By: Daniel Suarez

4.26

Format: 486 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon, the "Greatest. Tec… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it."

-Daniel Suarez, Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

"Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Unfortunately reality has no advertising budget."

-Daniel Suarez, Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

"You taught me everything I need to know; self-reliance, self-respect, community. Just don't be surprised if I actually put it to use."

-Daniel Suarez, Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

"That people will do whatever a computer screen tells them. I swear to god, you could run the next Holocaust from a fucking fast-food register. He pantomimed aiming a pistol. It says I should kill you…"

-Daniel Suarez, Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)

Cover of Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3) by William Gibson

4. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

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5. Islands in the Net

By: Bruce Sterling

3.86

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In the high-tech twenty-first century, a family of "corporate associates" descends into an underwor… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
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6. Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

By: Walter Jon Williams

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Hardwired features high-tech thrills and unforgettable heroes in the great tradition of William Gib… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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7. Miami Blues

By: Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room… read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
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8. The Exile Kiss

By: George Alec Effinger

3.15

Format: None pages,

Marid Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent Budayeen ghetto to being the ri… read more

Similar categories in George Alec Effinger's The Exile Kiss book and George Alec Effinger's The Exile Kiss

  • crime
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
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9. The Stars My Destination

By: Neil Gaiman , Alfred Bester

4.06

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

"If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy."

-Neil Gaiman, The Stars My Destination

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10. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

By: Tom Robbins

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Starring Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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11. Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)

By: William Gibson

3.72

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLit… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • science fiction
"Secrets...are the very root of cool."

-William Gibson, Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)

"That’s what money will buy you, in America,"

-William Gibson, Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)

"Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television."

-William Gibson, Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)

"the windows of army surplus stores constituted hymns to male powerlessness."

-William Gibson, Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)

12. Johnny Mnemonic

By: William Gibson , Terry Bisson

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Synopsis: Johnny is a courier. He carries data, uploaded into his brain through a jack implanted in… read more

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13. Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.30

Format: 237 pages,

Hollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she… read more

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14. Rivers of London: Body Work

By: Ben Aaronovitch , Andrew Cartmel , Lee Sullivan , Luis Guerrero

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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15. The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme

By: John Keegan

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The Face of Battleis military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of indi… read more

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16. Schismatrix Plus

By: Bruce Sterling

3.67

Format: None pages,

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17. Sharp Ends (First Law World, #7)

By: Joe Abercrombie

3.68

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award winning tales and exclusive new short stories from t… read more

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18. Red Country (First Law World, #6)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.11

Format: 70 pages, ebook

They burned her home. They stole her brother and sister. But vengeance is following. Shy South hope… read more

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19. Double Whammy

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer… read more

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20. The Hanging Tree (Peter Grant, #6)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

The Hanging Tree was the Tyburn gallows which stood where Marble Arch stands today. Oxford Street w… read more

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21. The Score (Parker, #5)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more

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22. Voice of the Whirlwind (Hardwired, #2)

By: Walter Jon Williams

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Steward, a clone fifteen years overdue for a brain-scan update, has no idea that the Orbital Polico… read more

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23. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling

4.06

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

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24. Jenny Trapdoor

By: Neal Asher

4.39

Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition

During the prador-human war the Dark Intelligence, the AI Penny Royal, fractured and went rogue. Th… read more

Similar categories in Neal Asher's Jenny Trapdoor book and George Alec Effinger's The Exile Kiss

  • science fiction
Cover of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

25. Snow Crash

By: Neal Stephenson

4.02

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Meta… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
"They made data a controlled substance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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26. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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27. 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
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
Cover of City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

28. City of Last Chances (The Tyrant Philosophers, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.96

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fanta… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Agency (Jackpot #2) by William Gibson

29. Agency (Jackpot #2)

By: William Gibson

3.81

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted "a… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
"I dislike calling them stubs,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"You’re too young to remember it,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"I like it. A Silicon Valley ghost story."

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

"We’ve sourced something field-expedient,"

-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)

Cover of Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1) by Suzanne Palmer

30. Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)

By: Suzanne Palmer

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From Hugo Award-winning debut author Suzanne Palmer comes an action-packed sci-fi caper starring Fe… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"your species has such wonderful contradictions that we find you a maddening puzzle."

-Suzanne Palmer, Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)

"F--- that," she interrupted. "If everyone always waited till they felt ready, we'd all still be fish living on trees."

-Suzanne Palmer, Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)

"Where do you feel your pull?" the Shielder asked. "That's how you become unstuck, by going where you are meant to be drawn, or where there are unfinished drawings of you that need completion."

-Suzanne Palmer, Finder (Finder Chronicles, #1)

Cover of The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) by Christopher Buehlman

31. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0) book and George Alec Effinger's The Exile Kiss

  • fiction
"To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

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Cockfighter

Charles Willeford

4.13

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William Gibson

4.01

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Islands in the Net

Bruce Sterling

3.86

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Miami Blues

Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

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Jirel of Joiry

C.L. Moore

3.72

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The Demolished Man

Alfred Bester

3.97

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Roadside Picnic

Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None

4.14

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The Palace Of Eternity

Bob Shaw

3.80

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