16 Best science fiction fantasy books like Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Cover of Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) by Alastair Reynolds

1. 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

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

2. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • fantasy
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

3. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

By: Ann Leckie

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

4. House of Suns

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's House of Suns book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

5. 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 Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • 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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6. The Kaiju Preservation Society

By: John Scalzi

3.99

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food deliv… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's The Kaiju Preservation Society book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I lift things."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"So we’re the monster police, too?"

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"...if you're only reading books because you have to, it becomes much less fun."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

"My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called."

-John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

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7. 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 Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • 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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8. 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 Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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

9. 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 Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction
  • space opera
  • 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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10. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Witch King book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

Cover of A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2) by Arkady Martine

11. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

By: Arkady Martine

4.32

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one ca… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I thought you hated them,"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"On the flagship Weight of the Wheel : “You’d have to ask medical,"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"exile happened in the heart and the mind long before it happened to the body"

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

"Mahit couldn't decide if she was horrified, proud, or simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued."

-Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

Cover of Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4) by Alastair Reynolds

12. Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.11

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • audiobook
"The universe won’t do this to us,’ I whispered to myself. ‘It’s indifferent, but it isn’t actually cruel.’ Perhaps I believed myself, for a moment or two."

-Alastair Reynolds, Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space, #4)

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13. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Eversion book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) by Martha Wells

14. Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

By: Martha Wells

4.31

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. When M… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
"Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans so the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

Cover of A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) by Arkady Martine

15. A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

By: Arkady Martine

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to disco… read more

Similar categories in Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"made in blood, acclaimed in sunlight."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

"The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply."

-Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

Cover of Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

16. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.19

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii, #1) by Miles  Cameron

17. Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii, #1)

By: Miles Cameron

4.32

Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition

Out in the darkness of space, something is targeting the Greatships.With their vast cargo holds and… read more

Similar categories in Miles Cameron's Artifact Space (Arcana Imperii, #1) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • space
  • audiobook
Cover of Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) by M.R. Carey

18. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2) by M.R. Carey

19. Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2)

By: M.R. Carey

4.36

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the critically acclaimed Infinity Gate comes the second and final novel in the Pandominio… read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Echo of Worlds (Pandominion, #2) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) by James S.A. Corey

20. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) book and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • space opera
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • aliens
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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