19 must-read science fiction books like The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow

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The Lost Cause

By: Cory Doctorow

3.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.…

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Heavy Weather

By: Bruce Sterling

3.68

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Bruce Sterling, one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk genre, now presents a novel of vivid i… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • climate change fiction
  • fiction
Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

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 Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • 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 Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • 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. 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 Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • 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 Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

5. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

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6. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2) book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) by Malka Ann Older

7. The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2)

By: Malka Ann Older

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to the … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #2) book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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8. The Saint of Bright Doors

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.71

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's The Saint of Bright Doors book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Weinersmith's A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • politics
  • audiobook
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

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10. The Lost Cause

By: Cory Doctorow

3.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely.… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • politics
  • adult
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • climate change fiction
  • near future
  • audiobook
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11. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Alderman's The Future book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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12. 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 Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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

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13. 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 Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Mal Goes to War: A Novel

By: Edward Ashton

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and… read more

Similar categories in Edward Ashton's Mal Goes to War: A Novel book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Exordia

By: Seth Dickinson

3.78

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

“Anna, I came to Earth tracking a very old story, a story that goes back to the dawn of time. it’s … read more

Similar categories in Seth Dickinson's Exordia book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra

16. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

By: Deb Chachra

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more

Similar categories in Deb Chachra's How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • audiobook
"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"

-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

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17. Navola

By: Paolo Bacigalupi

3.92

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of Wind-Up Girl and The Water Knife comes a sweeping li… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Bacigalupi's Navola book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Liberty's Daughter by Naomi Kritzer

18. Liberty's Daughter

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.06

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Kritzer's Liberty's Daughter book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • near future
Cover of The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar

19. The Circumference of the World

By: Lavie Tidhar

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notoriou… read more

Similar categories in Lavie Tidhar's The Circumference of the World book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Exadelic

By: Jon Evans

3.47

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark ar… read more

Similar categories in Jon Evans's Exadelic book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Beyond the Light Horizon (Lightspeed Trilogy, #3) by Ken MacLeod

21. Beyond the Light Horizon (Lightspeed Trilogy, #3)

By: Ken MacLeod

4.11

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

'IF YOU LIKE SCIENCE FICTION YOU WILL LOVE THIS. . . A ROLLICKING GOOD READ' Scotsman on Beyond the… read more

Similar categories in Ken MacLeod's Beyond the Light Horizon (Lightspeed Trilogy, #3) book and Cory Doctorow's The Lost Cause

  • science fiction

18 best-selling fiction books like The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow

Transform Your Habits

Heavy Weather

Bruce Sterling

3.68

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

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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21 Best science fiction books like Beyond the Light Horizon (Lightspeed Trilogy, #3) by Ken MacLeod

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

M.R. Carey

4.17

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