14 Best fantasy books like Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) by Lindsay Ellis

Cover of Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) by Lindsay  Ellis

Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

By: Lindsay Ellis

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Truth is a human right. It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government mi…

"I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal."

-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

"I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal."

-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

"...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so close, on a grand cosmic scale. A near-infinite universe, and they were practically next-door neighbors. Looking into his eyes was like looking into ten billion years of history, like she could see the particles and rocks and gasses coalesce over eons, until somehow, impossibly, here they both were."

-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

"...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so close, on a grand cosmic scale. A near-infinite universe, and they were practically next-door neighbors. Looking into his eyes was like looking into ten billion years of history, like she could see the particles and rocks and gasses coalesce over eons, until somehow, impossibly, here they both were."

-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

If you liked the fantasy plot in Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) by Lindsay Ellis , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) by Martha Wells

1. 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

Similar categories in Martha Wells's All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

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

-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)

"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)

"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)

2. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

By: Ann Leckie

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more

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3. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

By: None

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space--and one adventurous young explorer who d… read more

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4. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

By: Hank Green

4.11

Format: 70 pages,

An art student in New York City named April May finds herself at the centre of a vast international… read more

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5. Awoken

By: Serra Elinsen

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his house at R'lyeh, great Cthulhu lies dreaming... of her. What would you do if you discovered … read more

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6. A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, follow… read more

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Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

7. 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 Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"(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 The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4) by Becky  Chambers

8. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

By: Becky Chambers

4.41

Format: 336 pages, ebook

With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has g… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4) book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The gendered expectations of parenting were dissolving, but even though women could be found working in creches now, there was still an enormous difference between the person who produced an egg and …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"In traditional Aeluon culture, a mother was not a parent. Parents were men and shon. Parents went to school for it. Parents were the people who actually raised children, not those who had done the ea…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Then, what is your reason?' 'I don't know!' Pei rubbed her face in frustration. 'There is no reason why I don't want to do this! I'm healthy! I'm clearly capable! Everybody I know who's ever gone to …"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

"Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something t…"

-Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

Cover of Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) by Lindsay  Ellis

9. Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

By: Lindsay Ellis

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Truth is a human right. It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US government mi… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • alternate history
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I feel like an addict. Like if you leave, I'll go into withdrawal."

-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

"...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so cl…"

-Lindsay Ellis, Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

Cover of The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

10. The Kaiju Preservation Society

By: John Scalzi

3.99

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food deliv… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I lift things."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"So we’re the monster police, too?"

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"...if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

Cover of Translation State by Ann Leckie

11. 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

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Starter Villain by John Scalzi

12. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

Cover of This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar

13. This Is How You Lose the Time War

By: Amal El-Mohtar

3.88

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before … read more

Similar categories in Amal El-Mohtar's This Is How You Lose the Time War book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Atlantis sinks. Serves it right."

-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

"And everyone is alive, somewhere in time."

-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

"All the stars are eyes here, always seeking."

-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

"I would rather break the world than lose you."

-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

Cover of A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Becky  Chambers

14. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

By: Becky Chambers

None

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more

Similar categories in Becky Chambers's A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1) by Christopher Paolini

15. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)

By: Christopher Paolini

3.80

Format: 880 pages, Hardcover

Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Paolini's To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1) book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"☹️ -Gregorovich"

-Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)

"There's no such thing as safety. Only degrees of risk."

-Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)

"It was the worst of things: loss utter and complete, without a chance of restoration."

-Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)

"Logic only took you so far. Sometimes the cure to the dark was to find another flame burning bright."

-Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)

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 Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei

17. The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

3.71

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"...wanting to prove they were strong enough to withstand anything. Except strength could make you brittle. Big enough impact, and you splinter."

-Yume Kitasei, The Deep Sky

Cover of Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) by Tamsyn Muir

18. Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.21

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword… read more

Similar categories in Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Evidence,"

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

"Too many words,"

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

"Harrow said, “But you're God."

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

"Death first to vultures and scavangers."

-Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Cover of A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2) by Hank Green

19. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)

By: Hank Green

4.24

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

April May and the Carls are back in the much-anticipated sequel to Hank Green's #1 New York Times b… read more

Similar categories in Hank Green's A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2) book and Lindsay Ellis's Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I read to occupy a mind other than my own"

-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)

"Often, restraint is far more remarkable than action."

-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)

"Your life is written on this body, and I love every piece of it."

-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)

"You can only pretend to be something so long before you become it."

-Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)

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4.41

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