13 best-selling science fiction fantasy books like How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

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How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • 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

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • 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. The Pram

By: Joe Hill

3.77

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a … read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • 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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5. 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

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  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • 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

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6. Ankle Snatcher

By: Grady Hendrix

3.74

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • space opera
  • fiction
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8. 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

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • 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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9. 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

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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

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

-Paul Tremblay, The Last Conversation

Cover of How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

12. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) book and James S.A. Corey's How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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13. 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

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  • novella
  • 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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14. Slot Machine Fever Dreams

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.14

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s called Sin City for a reason. Dark secrets emerge when a young bartender meets a stranger on a… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
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  • 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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16. 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

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Mosquito

By: B.A. Paris

3.63

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

After his marriage fails, he hopes a vacation in France will relax and restore him. But fate has so… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. 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

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

20. 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

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  • novella
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  • speculative fiction
  • space
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21. 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

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  • novella
  • science fiction fantasy
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  • science fiction
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  • audiobook
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22. 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

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  • novella
  • 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

23. 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

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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24. 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

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

25. 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

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • space
Cover of The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6) by Veronica G. Henry

26. The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6)

By: Veronica G. Henry

3.43

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

Amid the modern trappings of 1950s Savannah, an ancient evil threatens a young widow and her daught… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4) by Nghi Vo

27. What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

3.63

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman posing as a medium who can channel the spirit world comes face to face with the truth in th… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
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"She tried to lie back down, but her heart took a while to slow, and when it did, she found herself lying awake. She was exhausted, but her body was restless, humming like the wires that webbed the sk…"

-Nghi Vo, What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

"He looked disheveled, still in his clothes, and there was a packet of papers in his hands. She moved to the side of the hall, giving him ample room to pass to the earth closet, but he was still watch…"

-Nghi Vo, What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

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28. Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7)

By: Garth Nix

3.31

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

A cynical “fixer” for a silent-film studio must confront the shadows behind the bright lights in th… read more

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  • novella
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  • audiobook
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29. These Alien Skies (Black Stars, #4)

By: C.T. Rwizi

4.27

Format: 25 pages, Kindle Edition

Accidents happen in the strange realms of the African Union system. One of them sends two humans to… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
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30. Falls the Shadow (Warmer, #5)

By: Skip Horack

2.59

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

A North Carolina combat vet finds himself far from home on the front lines of an environmental batt… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. Boca Raton (Warmer, #2)

By: Lauren Groff

3.01

Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition

A mother’s latent fears rise as relentlessly as the Florida seas in a startling story of a planet, … read more

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31 Best fiction books like How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

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

The Pram

Joe Hill

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Translation State

Ann Leckie

4.09

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Fluency (Confluence, #1)

Jennifer Foehner Wells

3.83

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The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)

Barry Kirwan

4.23

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The Long Game (The Far Reaches, #4)

Ann Leckie

3.65

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

John Scalzi

4.18

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