17 Best fiction books like Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2) by Jeff VanderMeer

Cover of Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2) by Jeff VanderMeer

Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.36

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters — Grayson, Moss and Chen — shapeshifters, a…

"What is too much to bear? Not being alive is too much to bear."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

"What is too much to bear? Not being alive is too much to bear."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

"But, in the end, joy cannot fend off evil. Joy can only remind you why you fight."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

"But, in the end, joy cannot fend off evil. Joy can only remind you why you fight."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

If you liked the fiction plot in Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2) by Jeff VanderMeer , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Emergence (The Corporation Wars, #3) by Ken MacLeod

1. Emergence (The Corporation Wars, #3)

By: Ken MacLeod

3.85

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Ken MacLeod concludes the Corporation Wars trilogy in this action-packed science fiction adventure … read more

Similar categories in Ken MacLeod's Emergence (The Corporation Wars, #3) book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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2. Kraken

By: China Miéville

3.62

Format: 509 pages, Hardcover

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat… read more

Similar categories in China Miéville's Kraken book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"My Google-fu is strong."

-China Miéville, Kraken

"The bullets are gun-eggs,"

-China Miéville, Kraken

"Death isn't what it used to be"

-China Miéville, Kraken

"Any moment called now is always full of possibles."

-China Miéville, Kraken

Cover of The Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski

3. The Whalestoe Letters

By: Mark Z. Danielewski

4.06

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Railsea by China Miéville

4. Railsea

By: China Miéville

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Hardcover

On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarp… read more

Similar categories in China Miéville's Railsea book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) by China Miéville

5. Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New Crobuzon, where th… read more

Similar categories in China Miéville's Perdido Street Station (Bas-Lag, #1) book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • new weird
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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6. Void Star

By: Zachary Mason

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality Not far i… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Mason's Void Star book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
Cover of Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 2 by Clive Barker, Mark Alan Miller, Haemi Jang

7. Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 2

By: Clive Barker , Mark Alan Miller , Haemi Jang

4.08

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

What if God came back and told us we'd gotten it all wrong? God has returned to the world in a mann… read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's Clive Barker's Next Testament Vol. 2 book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

8. House of Leaves

By: Mark Z. Danielewski

4.09

Format: 710 pages, Paperback

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly w… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"I must read. I must read. I must read."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

"Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space."

-Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

9. Electric Forest

By: Tanith Lee

3.63

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

The world called Indigo turned upside down for Magdala Cled one unexpected morning. From being that… read more

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10. The Corporation Wars: Insurgence (Second Law Trilogy, #2)

By: Ken MacLeod

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ken MacLeod continues the Corporation Wars trilogy in this action-packed science fiction adventure … read more

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11. The Corporation Wars: Dissidence

By: Ken MacLeod

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

They've died for the companies more times than they can remember. Now they must fight to live for t… read more

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Cover of Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2) by Jeff VanderMeer

12. Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.36

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters — Grayson, Moss and Chen — shapeshifters, a… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2) book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • post apocalyptic
  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"What is too much to bear? Not being alive is too much to bear."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

"But, in the end, joy cannot fend off evil. Joy can only remind you why you fight."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

"But, in the end, joy cannot fend off evil. Joy can only remind you why you fight."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

"Also, Moss liked to rescue whatever animal or plant needed it. She believed they had earned it."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

Cover of What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) by T. Kingfisher

13. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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

14. 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 Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • science fiction
  • 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 In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

15. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

Cover of The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

16. 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

Similar categories in Ray Nayler's The Tusks of Extinction book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • 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 Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (Tales of the Weird) by Henry Bartholomew

17. Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (Tales of the Weird)

By: Henry Bartholomew

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Unlike the Gothic, which tends to fixate on the past, the haunted, and the ghostly, early weird fic… read more

Similar categories in Henry Bartholomew's Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-Bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird (Tales of the Weird) book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Gogmagog (The Chronicles of Ludwich, #1) by Jeff Noon

18. Gogmagog (The Chronicles of Ludwich, #1)

By: Jeff Noon

3.72

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

In a distant, tattered future an old woman, a young girl and mechanical man embark on a slow voyage… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Noon's Gogmagog (The Chronicles of Ludwich, #1) book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • new weird
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Flux by Jinwoo Chong

19. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

Similar categories in Jinwoo Chong's Flux book and Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2)

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction

5 must-read novels books like Dead Astronauts (Borne, #2) by Jeff VanderMeer

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Mark Z. Danielewski

4.06

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Zachary Mason

3.50

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Mark Z. Danielewski

4.09

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Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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Emma Mieko Candon

3.31

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Annalee Newitz

3.37

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Nick Harkaway

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