17 Best fantasy books like Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) by Richard K. Morgan

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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

By: Richard K. Morgan

4.04

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited f…

"You smoke?"

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Farkında olmasanız dahi etkilenirsiniz."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Farkında olmasanız dahi etkilenirsiniz."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

If you liked the fantasy plot in Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) by Richard K. Morgan , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

By: William Gibson

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteni… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"<> es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"Trabajar con las dos manos" es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)

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2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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3. Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.27

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generati… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Partners,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"Trashy people puke,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"Tell me everything it explains,"

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

"No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito."

-James S.A. Corey, Abaddon’s Gate (The Expanse, #3)

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4. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3) book and Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"

-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)

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5. 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
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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)

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6. Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2) by James S.A. Corey

7. Caliban's War (The Expanse, #2)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her pl… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.08

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals in… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It’s easy to be led to the abyss."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

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9. 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
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • 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)

10. Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series The gates have ope… read more

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11. 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
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • 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)

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12. The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

By: Joe Haldeman

4.14

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ali… read more

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch"

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

"Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop."

-Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

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13. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

14. The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

By: Neal Stephenson

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson.… read more

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15. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling

4.06

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"

-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)

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16. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick

4.09

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans o… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"An android,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mors certa, vita incerta,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mankind needs more empathy."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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17. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • 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)

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18. Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

By: John Scalzi

4.24

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It’s war, you jackasses,"

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

"Christ on a Popsicle stick."

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

"What we don't know can't hurt us."

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

"We don’t get to choose our battles."

-John Scalzi, Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

Cover of Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) by Richard K. Morgan

19. Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

By: Richard K. Morgan

4.04

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited f… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • noir
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"You smoke?"

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Farkında olmasanız dahi etkilenirsiniz."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"What we thought of as personality was no more than the passing shape of one of the waves in front of me."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

Cover of Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

20. Snow Crash

By: Neal Stephenson

4.02

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The "brilliantly realized" (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term "me… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"They made data a controlled substance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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3.89

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4.27

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