13 Best science fiction fantasy books like After World by Debbie Urbanski

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After World

By: Debbie Urbanski

3.30

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it to fall in love wit…

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1. The Mars House

By: Natasha Pulley

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's The Mars House book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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2. The Great Transition

By: Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Station Eleven and The Ministry for the Future, this richly imaginative, immersive, and… read more

Similar categories in Nick Fuller Googins's The Great Transition book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"What it came down to was saving each other’s butts."

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

"Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it"

-Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

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3. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

Similar categories in Marie-Helene Bertino's Beautyland book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • 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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5. After World

By: Debbie Urbanski

3.30

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel—only for it to fall in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Debbie Urbanski's After World book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • post apocalyptic
  • science fiction fantasy
  • artificial intelligence
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • climate change
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

6. 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 Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative 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

Cover of Mal Goes to War: A Novel by Edward Ashton

7. 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 Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • artificial intelligence
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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8. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langan's A Better World book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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10. 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 Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Generation Ship

By: Michael Mammay

3.83

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

In this riveting, stand-alone novel from Michael Mammay, author of  Planetside,  the beginning of a… read more

Similar categories in Michael Mammay's Generation Ship book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Dual Memory

By: Sue Burke

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Sue Burke, author of the acclaimed novel Semiosis , returns with Dual Memory, a standalone novel bl… read more

Similar categories in Sue Burke's Dual Memory book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • artificial intelligence
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

Cover of Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) by L.M. Sagas

14. Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)

By: L.M. Sagas

3.92

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

L. M. Sagas' debut, Cascade Failure, is a highly commercial, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes'… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Sagas's Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1) book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ocean's Godori by Elaine U. Cho

15. Ocean's Godori

By: Elaine U. Cho

3.67

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Ocean Yoon has never felt like much of a Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haeny… read more

Similar categories in Elaine U. Cho's Ocean's Godori book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She asks, "Do you ever want to go back to Mars?" "It's a weird little place," he replies. "Stuck in its ways. I feel more like a Martian when I'm not there, if that makes sense."

-Elaine U. Cho, Ocean's Godori

Cover of The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

16. The Stardust Grail

By: Yume Kitasei

3.78

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Save one world. Doom her own. From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky comes a thrilling anti-c… read more

Similar categories in Yume Kitasei's The Stardust Grail book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang

17. Jumpnauts

By: Hao Jingfang

3.33

Format: 368 pages, ebook

From the Hugo Award­–winning author of Folding Beijing comes a gripping science fiction thriller in… read more

Similar categories in Hao Jingfang's Jumpnauts book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"Ren."

-Hao Jingfang, Jumpnauts

"I reject aspects of Confucianism that emphasize hierarchy in relations, obedience to authority, and all the rites and restrictive rules of propriety,"

-Hao Jingfang, Jumpnauts

"Chang Tian chuckled. “When I was in the kitchen, I heard the three of you debate ‘good relationships.’ My goodness, you’re all theory with no practical knowledge at all. What do you know about health…"

-Hao Jingfang, Jumpnauts

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18. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • fiction
Cover of The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves

19. The Book of Elsewhere

By: Keanu Reeves

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more

Similar categories in Keanu Reeves's The Book of Elsewhere book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Here in Avalon by Tara Isabella Burton

20. Here in Avalon

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York City fairy tale about two sisters that fall under the spell of an underworld cabaret tro… read more

Similar categories in Tara Isabella Burton's Here in Avalon book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hum by Helen          Phillips

21. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Debbie Urbanski's After World

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook

21 Best fiction books like After World by Debbie Urbanski

Transform Your Habits

The Mars House

Natasha Pulley

4.02

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The Great Transition

Nick Fuller Googins

3.79

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Beautyland

Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

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The Future

Naomi Alderman

3.86

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20 Best fiction books like Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang

Transform Your Habits

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

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Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

Sofia Samatar

3.94

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Mal Goes to War: A Novel

Edward Ashton

3.99

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