swap_horiz Network Effect Alternatives

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Exhalation

Exhalation is a 2019 collection of science fiction short stories by Ted Chiang that explores profound themes regarding f...

Philosophical Hard SF Short Stories Hugo Winner

9.2 Excellent

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The Fifth Season

The Fifth Season is a 2015 science fiction novel by N.K. Jemisin, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, set on a cont...

Geological Apocalypse Hugo Winner Jemisin

9.2 Excellent

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The Player of Games

The Player of Games is a 1988 science fiction novel by Scottish author Iain M. Banks, set in his utopian post-scarcity C...

Space Opera AI Game Culture

9.1 Excellent

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

This 1959 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller Jr. won a Hugo Award and explores Catholic monastic...

Classic Religion Hugo Winner Post Apocalypse

9.1 Excellent

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a lunar colony's revolt against...

Classic AI Libertarian Revolution

8.9 Great

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Mirror Dance

Mirror Dance is a 1994 science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold that won the Hugo and Locus Awards for its explorat...

Space Opera Clone Hugo Winner Bujold

8.9 Great

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The Obelisk Gate

The Obelisk Gate is a 2016 science fiction novel by N.K. Jemisin, second in the Broken Earth trilogy, and winner of the...

Sequel Apocalypse Hugo Winner Jemisin

8.9 Great

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Children of Time

Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky that won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for its depic...

Space Opera Uplift Tchaikovsky Hugo Winner

8.8 Great

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A Deepness in the Sky

A Deepness in the Sky is a 1999 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge that explores the emergence of an alien civilizati...

Space Opera Hard SF First Contact Vinge

8.7 Great

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Speaker for the Dead

Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, serving as the sequel to Ender's Game and winn...

Card Sequel Anthropology Aliens

8.7 Great

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The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem is a 2008 science fiction novel by Chinese author Liu Cixin that won the Hugo Award and depicts h...

Hard SF Chinese First Contact Hugo Winner

8.7 Great

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The Stone Sky

The Stone Sky is a 2017 science fiction novel by N.K. Jemisin concluding the Broken Earth trilogy, and winner of both th...

Sequel Apocalypse Hugo Winner Jemisin

8.7 Great

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Red Mars

Red Mars is a 1992 hard science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson depicting the colonization and terraforming of Mar...

Hard SF Mars Colonization Hugo Winner

8.6 Great

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The Demolished Man

The Demolished Man is a 1953 science fiction novel by Alfred Bester that won the inaugural Hugo Award for Best Novel and...

Classic Mystery Hugo Winner Bester

8.5 Great

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Ancillary Justice

Ancillary Justice is a 2013 science fiction novel by Ann Leckie that won the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards, notable fo...

Space Opera AI Gender Hugo Winner

8.5 Great

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All Systems Red

All Systems Red is a 2017 science fiction novella by Martha Wells that introduces the cyborg protagonist Murderbot, winn...

Space Opera AI Novella Wells

8.4 Great

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Artificial Condition

Artificial Condition is a 2018 science fiction novella by Martha Wells, continuing the adventures of the rogue security...

AI Sequel Novella Wells

8.2 Great

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Rogue Protocol

Rogue Protocol is a 2018 science fiction novella by Martha Wells and the third installment in the popular Murderbot Diar...

AI Sequel Novella Wells

7.9 Good

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System Collapse

System Collapse is a 2023 science fiction novel by Martha Wells and a direct sequel to Network Effect, continuing the st...

AI Novel Sequel Wells

7.9 Good

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Fugitive Telemetry

Fugitive Telemetry is a 2021 science fiction novella by Martha Wells that follows the cyborg Murderbot solving a murder...

Mystery Sequel Novella Wells

7.8 Good