19 Best science fiction books like Airside by Christopher Priest

Cover of Airside by Christopher Priest

Airside

By: Christopher Priest

3.27

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood actress Jeanette Marchand was beautiful, talented, beloved by audiences. During a time …

If you liked the science fiction plot in Airside by Christopher Priest , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Iron Council (New Crobuzon, #3) by China Miéville

1. Iron Council (New Crobuzon, #3)

By: China Miéville

4.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

Following Perdido Street Stationand The Scar, acclaimed author China Mieville returns with his huge… read more

Similar categories in China Miéville's Iron Council (New Crobuzon, #3) book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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 Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"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. Madness is Better Than Defeat

By: Ned Beauman

4.30

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one inte… read more

Similar categories in Ned Beauman's Madness is Better Than Defeat book and Christopher Priest's Airside

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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

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"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

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 Christopher Priest's Airside

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"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)

Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

6. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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7. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

Similar categories in Ned Beauman's Venomous Lumpsucker book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

Cover of Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi

8. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

By: Wole Talabi

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning Nigerian author presents a mythic tale of disgruntled… read more

Similar categories in Wole Talabi's Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Airside by Christopher Priest

9. Airside

By: Christopher Priest

3.27

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood actress Jeanette Marchand was beautiful, talented, beloved by audiences. During a time … read more

Similar categories in Christopher Priest's Airside book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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10. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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11. Prophet

By: Sin Blaché

3.68

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new … read more

Similar categories in Sin Blaché's Prophet book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"He looks at Rao. Turns in his seat and looks. Sunil Rao, bane of Adam's career, world saver, royal pain in the ass, and genuinely the love of Adam's life."

-Sin Blaché, Prophet

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12. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

Cover of Him by Geoff Ryman

13. Him

By: Geoff Ryman

3.79

Format: 257 pages, ebook

“Women, of course, can not be sons of God.” In the village of Nazareth, virgin Maryam and the wife … read more

Similar categories in Geoff Ryman's Him book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1) by Ken MacLeod

14. Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1)

By: Ken MacLeod

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

'An exceptional blend of international politics, hard science, and first contact' Michael Mammay, a… read more

Similar categories in Ken MacLeod's Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Lightspeed Trilogy, #1) book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Orbital by Samantha Harvey

15. 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 Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"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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16. Hopeland

By: Ian McDonald

3.83

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

They met while London burned. A encounter during a riot brought Amon Brightbourne together with Rai… read more

Similar categories in Ian McDonald's Hopeland book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre

17. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

Similar categories in Chris Brookmyre's The Cracked Mirror book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of The Escape Room by L.D. Smithson

18. The Escape Room

By: L.D. Smithson

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Everything is a clue. Eight strangers arrive at a remote sea fort off the coast of England. They a… read more

Similar categories in L.D. Smithson's The Escape Room book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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 Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar

20. 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 Christopher Priest's Airside

  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Conquest by Nina Allan

21. Conquest

By: Nina Allan

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Rachel's boyfriend Frank is different from other people. His strangeness is part of what she loves … read more

Similar categories in Nina Allan's Conquest book and Christopher Priest's Airside

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • science fiction

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