19 must-read science fiction books like Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) by Ken Liu, Liu Cixin

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Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.42

Format: 604 pages, Hardcover

With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult…

"Time is the cruelest force of all."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"Time is the cruelest force of all."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

If you liked the science fiction plot in Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) by Ken Liu, Liu Cixin , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

4.26

Format: 281 pages, ebook

What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."

-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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2. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

By: Martha Wells

4.15

Format: 144 pages, ebook

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated space-farin… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
"On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an “oh shit"

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"They don't give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, even those are cheap versions."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

"I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other."

-Martha Wells, All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

3. Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its supe… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy

4. Second Foundation (Foundation #3)

By: Isaac Asimov

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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5. The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

By: Dan Simmons

3.77

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far f… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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6. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.27

Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You have to live to really know things, my love"

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."

-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)

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7. Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.31

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"GOODY. MY SPLEEN IS COLLAPSING. HURRY UP."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

"Fish and company start to smell after three days."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

"Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

"Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore."

-James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

Cover of Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) by Ken Liu, Liu Cixin

8. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.42

Format: 604 pages, Hardcover

With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) book and Ken Liu's Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

  • aliens
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • china
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Time is the cruelest force of all."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

"The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us."

-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)

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9. Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is h… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"In these latter days, knighthood was an honor few Englishmen escaped."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)

10. Children of Time

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more

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11. Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

By: Dan Simmons

4.19

Format: 563 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the worl… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance."

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space."

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"The support and covering craft in orbit were also decimated, sir.’ ‘Decimated?’ The pain is making de Soya angry. ‘That means one in ten, Captain. Are ten percent of ship’s personnel on the casualty …"

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

"And then Robinson Crusoe stripped naked, swam out to his ship, filled his pockets with biscuits, and swam back to shore...." "What?" I said, hefting my pack and frowning at the child. "Nothing," she …"

-Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)

Cover of Foundation (Foundation, #1) by Isaac Asimov

12. Foundation (Foundation, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.17

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Past glories are poor feeding."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

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13. Dune (Dune, #1)

By: Frank Herbert

4.27

Format: 658 pages, Hardcover

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble famil… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Hope clouds observation."

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

"Fear is the mind-killer."

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

"There’s a Bene Gesserit saying,"

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

"Humans are almost always lonely."

-Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

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14. Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

By: Frank Herbert

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
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  • speculative fiction
  • space
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  • audiobook
"One moment of incompetence can be fatal."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"What the eyes had seen could not be erased."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy."

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

"Truth suffers from too much analysis. -Ancient Fremen Saying"

-Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

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15. Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

By: Frank Herbert

3.96

Format: 609 pages, Paperback

Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,"

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

"The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you."

-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (Dune, #3)

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16. God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

By: Frank Herbert

3.88

Format: 587 pages, Paperback

Book four in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But you invite ..."

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"In the wrong hands,"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"Only fools prefer the past!"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

"For what do you hunger, Lord?"

-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Dune #4)

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17. 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 fantasy
  • space opera
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  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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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18. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

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19. Project Hail Mary

By: Andy Weir

4.51

Format: 476 pages, Hardcover

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"No. You no can die. You are friend."

-Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

"Usually you not stupid. Why stupid, question?"

-Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

"He puts his claw against the divider. “Fist my bump."

-Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

"Grumpy. Angry. Stupid. How long since last sleep, question?"

-Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

Cover of The Redemption of Time (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #4) by Baoshu

20. The Redemption of Time (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #4)

By: Baoshu

3.63

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of… read more

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  • aliens
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • china
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Cixin Liu's Science Fiction 7-book Collection Set (Three-Body Problem, Dark Forest, Death's End, Ball Lightning, Supernova Era, To Hold Up The Sky, Wandering Earth) by Cixin Liu

21. Cixin Liu's Science Fiction 7-book Collection Set (Three-Body Problem, Dark Forest, Death's End, Ball Lightning, Supernova Era, To Hold Up The Sky, Wandering Earth)

By: Cixin Liu

4.70

Format: 2800 pages, Paperback

Soon to be a Netflix Original Series! An NPR Best Book of the Decade Winner of the Hugo Award for B… read more

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19 must-read fiction books like Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) by Ken Liu, Liu Cixin

Transform Your Habits

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

4.26

Transform Your Habits

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells

4.15

Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)

Isaac Asimov

3.82

Second Foundation (Foundation #3)

Isaac Asimov

3.82

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For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2)

Ray Porter , Dennis E. Taylor

4.37

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We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)

Dennis E. Taylor

4.28

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Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen

4.41

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4.15

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