15 Best science fiction books like Proof of Concept by Gwyneth Jones

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Proof of Concept

By: Gwyneth Jones

3.95

Format: 128 pages, ebook

On a desperately overcrowded future Earth, crippled by climate change, the most unlikely hope is be…

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Cover of Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3) by Jeff VanderMeer

1. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.64

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"What does the border look like?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"I hope to find Area X in Area X."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"The time for expeditions was over."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"Was this first contact, or last contact?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

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2. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

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3. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Danielle Cain is a queer punk rock traveller, jaded from a decade on the road. Searching for clues … read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Always afraid, never a coward"

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"On a whim, I went with him. I could always stab him if he tried anything, after all."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I believe in a messy, imperfect world where we just, collectively or individually, figure things out."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

"I've got a long history of scraping together little moments of peace in the midst of hardship, and cooking is a great way to do that."

-Margaret Killjoy, The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Danielle Cain, #1)

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4. The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite

By: None , Gabriel Bá , Gerard Way , Nate Piekos , None

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born to w… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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5. City

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories t… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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6. The Peripheral

By: William Gibson

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The New York Timesbestselling author of such "high-tech dystopian thriller[s]"* as Neuromancer and … read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
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7. Proof of Concept

By: Gwyneth Jones

3.95

Format: 128 pages, ebook

On a desperately overcrowded future Earth, crippled by climate change, the most unlikely hope is be… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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8. Le bleu est une couleur chaude

By: Jul Maroh

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

La vie de Clementine bascule le jour ou elle rencontre Emma, une jeune fille aux cheveux bleus, qui… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

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10. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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  • fiction
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

11. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more

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12. The Midnight Club

By: Christopher Pike

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die, was home to the Midn… read more

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13. A Perfect Spy

By: John Le Carré

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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14. The Kraken Wakes

By: John Wyndham

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

15. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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16. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

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  • fiction
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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17. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

By: Becky Chambers

4.20

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

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18. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

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19. How Long 'til Black Future Month?

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and dra… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Still. Marching."

-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

"I’ll take the dreams,"

-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

"I need to talk to you,"

-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

"The monster is amused to be found monstrous"

-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?

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20. The Mere Wife

By: Maria Dahvana Headley

3.89

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Two mothers—a suburban housewife and a battle-hardened veteran—struggle to protect those they love … read more

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  • fiction
"Half of the dead are killed by their friends. Maybe that's the history of everything."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife

"We haven't slept in years. This is an advantage of menopause. Some nights, we meet for coffee at 4:00 a.m."

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife

"Why is she here at Herot Hall, where at any second something bad could come down the mountain, or tunnel up from below? Monsters. There's a whole world filled with monsters. They everywhere"

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife

"Dogs can tell how many times a person's heart beats, how many breaths they've taken, whether they're sick, whether they're dying. Dogs can find the secrets their people don't know, tip them over, spi…"

-Maria Dahvana Headley, The Mere Wife

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21. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes

By: Eric LaRocca

3.22

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensati… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3) by Nghi Vo

22. Into the Riverlands (The Singing Hills Cycle, #3)

By: Nghi Vo

4.03

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorio… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
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23. The Tusks of Extinction

By: Ray Nayler

3.85

Format: 192 pages, ebook

When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novella
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"

-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction

Cover of Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1) by Alexandria Bellefleur

24. Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

3.86

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

With nods to Bridget Jones and Pride and Prejudice, a charming #ownvoices queer rom-com debut about… read more

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  • fiction
"An acquired taste."

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

"It’s the hard knock life."

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

"She wanted all of Elle—the good, the bad, the messy."

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

"Christ on a cracker, couldn't a girl be horny in peace?"

-Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)

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25. They: A Sequence of Unease

By: Kay Dick

3.38

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more

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  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

Cover of Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2) by Emily Tesh

26. Drowned Country (The Greenhollow Duology, #2)

By: Emily Tesh

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the … read more

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  • novella
  • fiction
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27. The Low, Low Woods

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.95

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow El and Vee as they search fo… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Rabbits (Rabbits, #1) by Terry Miles

28. Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)

By: Terry Miles

3.64

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

Conspiracies abound in this surreal and yet all-too-real technothriller in which a deadly undergrou… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"We each had our reasons for wanting the fantastical world promised by Rabbits to replace the flawed emotional narrative of our real lives."

-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)

"The world felt smaller from that vantage point, and much easier to understand. Life was messy and complicated when you were in the middle of it, while it was rushing toward you from all angles, close…"

-Terry Miles, Rabbits (Rabbits, #1)

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29. Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

By: David J. Chalmers

3.73

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

Virtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original wor… read more

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30. Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

By: Nick Estes

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life” In 2… read more

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"In this particular era of neoliberal capitalism, it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."

-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

"Obama spoke of being inspired by the courage of Black civil rights activists and freedom riders, who faced dog attacks, fire hoses, and police brutality, and “who risked everything to advance democra…"

-Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

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Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

Jeff VanderMeer

3.64

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3.61

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Margaret Killjoy

3.61

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