13 must-read science fiction fantasy books like Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi

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Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Fluency (Confluence, #1) by Jennifer Foehner Wells

1. Fluency (Confluence, #1)

By: Jennifer Foehner Wells

3.83

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

NASA discovered the alien ship lurking in the asteroid belt in the 1960s. They kept the Target unde… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Foehner Wells's Fluency (Confluence, #1) book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • space
  • audiobook
"I’m not getting much penetration here!"

-Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency (Confluence, #1)

"It’s all just ones and zeroes no matter where you go in the universe."

-Jennifer Foehner Wells, Fluency (Confluence, #1)

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2. 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 John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • 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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3. 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 John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

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

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4. Detonation Boulevard

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

In a cosmic rally race winding 12,000 kilometers across Io’s treacherous surface in just 60 hours, … read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Detonation Boulevard book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) by Martha Wells

5. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

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6. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

Similar categories in Chandler Baker's Big Bad book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Best of Luck

By: Jason Mott

3.77

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Did you ever hear the one about the man with a string of bad luck? The worst is still to come in a … read more

Similar categories in Jason Mott's Best of Luck book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi

8. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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9. The Last Conversation

By: Paul Tremblay

3.76

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning autho… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Last Conversation book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Soon. You keep saying soon. I don't think you and I share that words meaning."

-Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

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10. Ark

By: Veronica Roth

3.60

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Roth's Ark book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"Well, you can’t love everything equally,"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"That there was nothing you could have that you couldn’t one day lose. That autumn always gave way to winter, but it was her favorite time of year— those fleeting bursts of beauty before the branches …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"Well, you can't love everything equally," she said. "You just can't - and if you did, then it's the same as loving nothing at all. So you have to hold just a few things dear because that's what love …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

"Why, she had once asked her mother, do you bother to keep anything alive when it’ll all be wiped out by Finis? Her mother had shrugged. Why take a shower when you’re just going to get dirty? Why eat …"

-Veronica Roth, Ark

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11. Emergency Skin

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.03

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subver… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's Emergency Skin book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"We realized it was impossible to protect any one place if the place next door was drowning or on fire. We realized the old boundaries weren't meant to keep he undesirable out, but to hoard resources …"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

"No, there’s no one left alive on Tellus. The planet was in full environmental collapse across every biome when our people left. There were just too many people, and too many of those were unfit, infi…"

-N.K. Jemisin, Emergency Skin

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12. You Have Arrived at Your Destination

By: Amor Towles

3.49

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of th… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's You Have Arrived at Your Destination book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In Bloom by Paul Tremblay

13. In Bloom

By: Paul Tremblay

3.08

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's In Bloom book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. It Waits in the Woods

By: Josh Malerman

3.72

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's It Waits in the Woods book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

15. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
Cover of Randomize by Andy Weir

16. Randomize

By: Andy Weir

3.53

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in t… read more

Similar categories in Andy Weir's Randomize book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

17. Summer Frost

By: Blake Crouch

4.10

Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition

A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bend… read more

Similar categories in Blake Crouch's Summer Frost book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"Because sometimes life is so rich and complicated and surprising that it takes your breath away."

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

"There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of 'real'. There is only information, viewed subjectively, which is allowed by consciousness…"

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

"There is no such thing as real taste or real smell or even real sight, because there is no true definition of 'real'. There is only information, viewed subjectiveyly, which is allowed by consciousnes…"

-Blake Crouch, Summer Frost

Cover of The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1) by Jess Walter

18. The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1)

By: Jess Walter

3.57

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

Sleet in Mississippi? In March? A crazy ice storm lays waste to the South in a #1 New York Times be… read more

Similar categories in Jess Walter's The Way the World Ends (Warmer, #1) book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Starship Sakira (Delphi in Space #1) by Bob Blanton

19. Starship Sakira (Delphi in Space #1)

By: Bob Blanton

4.22

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

What would you do if you found a spaceship? Would you call the government, would you pretend you ne… read more

Similar categories in Bob Blanton's Starship Sakira (Delphi in Space #1) book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • space
Cover of Hard Knocks (SC Marva Collins, #3) by Nathan Lowell

20. Hard Knocks (SC Marva Collins, #3)

By: Nathan Lowell

4.53

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

It pays to take a second look.In the Deep Dark, it's a long walk home.The Marva Collins runs into u… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Lowell's Hard Knocks (SC Marva Collins, #3) book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • space
Cover of The Far Reaches: Stories to Take You Out of This World by James S.A. Corey

21. The Far Reaches: Stories to Take You Out of This World

By: James S.A. Corey

3.75

Format: 227 pages, Audiobook

Look outward beyond the stars with six stories from bestselling visionary authors. An AI awakens to… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's The Far Reaches: Stories to Take You Out of This World book and John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook

21 Best fiction books like Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi

Transform Your Habits

Fluency (Confluence, #1)

Jennifer Foehner Wells

3.83

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Detonation Boulevard

Alastair Reynolds

3.83

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7 best-selling science fiction fantasy books like Hard Knocks (SC Marva Collins, #3) by Nathan Lowell

Transform Your Habits

Fluency (Confluence, #1)

Jennifer Foehner Wells

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

Barry Kirwan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

Ann Leckie

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

John Scalzi

4.18

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