14 must-read fantasy books like The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1) by John Scalzi

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The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

By: John Scalzi

3.91

Format: 24 pages,

Part one of the four parts of the full-length novel, The End of All Things. A down-on-his-luck Colo…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1) by John Scalzi , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Have Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein

1. Have Space Suit—Will Travel

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.37

Format: 224 pages,

Kip from midwest Centerville USA works the summer before college as a pharmacy soda jerk, and wins … read more

Similar categories in Robert A. Heinlein's Have Space Suit—Will Travel book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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2. The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

By: John Scalzi

3.91

Format: 24 pages,

Part one of the four parts of the full-length novel, The End of All Things. A down-on-his-luck Colo… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • fantasy

3. WWW: Wake (WWW, #1)

By: Robert J. Sawyer

3.99

Format: 112 pages,

Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant … read more

Similar categories in Robert J. Sawyer's WWW: Wake (WWW, #1) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

Cover of The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1) by Skyler Ramirez

4. The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)

By: Skyler Ramirez

4.08

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

A Military Science Fiction Adventure! Brad Mendoza is an idiot. He knows it, and so does everyon… read more

Similar categories in Skyler Ramirez's The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

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 John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"(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)

Cover of Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

6. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • fiction
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

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7. 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

Similar categories in Gary Gibson's Europa Deep book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) by Martha Wells

8. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

Cover of Void (The Far Reaches, #2) by Veronica Roth

9. Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

By: Veronica Roth

3.86

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short myst… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's Void (The Far Reaches, #2) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
"... I realized that what's out there is oblivious to us. There's no menace to it, because there's no intent. We're just fragile, and we break sometimes. And time keeps moving. I don't know. I think i…"

-Veronica Roth, Void (The Far Reaches, #2)

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10. The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

By: Ann Leckie

3.65

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative s… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

11. Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.68

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenchi… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Falling Bodies (The Far Reaches, #3) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • fantasy
Cover of How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

12. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) by Nnedi Okorafor

13. Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.87

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman’s eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-pr… read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's Just Out of Jupiter's Reach (The Far Reaches, #5) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

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

14. 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

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

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

15. 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 John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

16. 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

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Tiger Chair

By: Max Brooks

3.57

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

When China invades America, guerrilla warfare explodes on the streets of Los Angeles in this provoc… read more

Similar categories in Max Brooks's Tiger Chair book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3) by Charles Stross

18. Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3)

By: Charles Stross

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Season of Skulls continues Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Lovecraftian Laundry Files se… read more

Similar categories in Charles Stross's Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Killing Time (The Time Police, #5) by Jodi Taylor

19. Killing Time (The Time Police, #5)

By: Jodi Taylor

4.56

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

A ghost train, lost in Time, hurtles through the night... Two members of Team 236 are trapped on… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Taylor's Killing Time (The Time Police, #5) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Storm Christopher (Frogmorton Farm #2.6) by Jodi Taylor

20. Storm Christopher (Frogmorton Farm #2.6)

By: Jodi Taylor

4.55

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

A brand new Frogmorton Farm short story, from the bestselling author of the Chronicles of St Mary's… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Taylor's Storm Christopher (Frogmorton Farm #2.6) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • short stories
Cover of Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

21. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) book and John Scalzi's The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

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

20 Top fiction books like The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1) by John Scalzi

Transform Your Habits

Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Robert A. Heinlein

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Life of the Mind (The End of All Things, #1)

John Scalzi

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Worst Ship in the Fleet (Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes, #1)

Skyler Ramirez

4.08

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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18 Best fiction books like Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Bezzle (Martin Hench #2)

Cory Doctorow

4.13

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