Books like Ender's Game (1986)
30 fantasy books to read after Ender's Game (1986), by Card, Orson Scott, the closest match first.
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The Ender Quintet book 2
1. Speaker For The Dead (1987)
by Card, Orson Scott
- Same series
- Same author
- On the same lists
Humans, pequinios, and the Hive Queen must find a way to live together.
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card won the 1987 Nebula Award for Best Novel
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The Ender Quintet book 3
2. Xenocide
by Card, Orson Scott
- Same series
- Same author
The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos...
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The Ender Quintet book 4
3. Children Of The Mind
by Card, Orson Scott
- Same series
- Same author
Achieves and delivers more than almost anything else within the science fiction genre, Ender's Game is a contemporary classic - New York Times 'Full of surprises...Intense is the word for...
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Dune Chronicles book 1 Start here
4. Dune
by Herbert, Frank
- On the same lists
The whole series over time shows the colonization and taming of the wild planet Dune over thousands of years.
A blend of sci-fi and fantasy, Frank Herbert's Dune created a foundation for many of the themes in modern genre fiction. Its exploration of ecology, pacifism, and mysticism pairs with...
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Takeshi Kovacs book 1 Start here
5. Altered Carbon
by Morgan, Richard K.
- On the same lists
Humans can transfer their conciousness into new bodies. This sets up a detective style story about a murder.
After dying in a particularly gruesome death, ex UN-envoy Takeshi Kovacs wakes up to find himself "re-sleeved" into a fresh body with a job offer: find who killed Laurens Bancroft...
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The Forever War book 1 Start here
6. The Forever War (1976)
by Haldeman, Joe
- On the same lists
In this novel, time travel is a kind of side effect of space travel at near light speeds.
William Mandella is a physics student drafted into an elite force to fight an alien enemy on the far side of the galaxy. Travel between the front lines takes a...
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7. Alvin Maker
by Card, Orson Scott
- Same author
I'd put this in the "Overrated Books With Undeserved Hype" category. I can't argue with Card's genius as a writer and the fact that he's usually a great writer, usually....
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8. Seventh Son
by Card, Orson Scott
- Same author
This series is part Fantasy and part Alternate History and takes place after the American Revolutionary War. Supernatural powers are simply a part of life. The main character has tremendous powers.
Orson Scott Card is best known for his immensely popular Ender's Game series, but he hasn't just tried his hand at the sci-fi genre. Card markets Alvin Maker as a...
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Tales Of Alvin Maker book 1 Start here
9. Seventh Son
by Card, Orson Scott
- Same author
Book 1 and Book 2 of the best-selling fantasy adventure series that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture Seventh Son! Read Book 1, Revenge of the Witch, and Book 2,...
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Tales Of Alvin Maker book 2
10. Red Prophet
by Card, Orson Scott
- Same author
In an alternative early America, where people have talents called knacks, a troubled and drunken Red man, Lolla-Wossiky, leaves General William Henry Harrison's fort in search of the spirit that...
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Tales Of Alvin Maker book 3
11. Prentice Alvin
by Card, Orson Scott
- Same author
The Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven...
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Oxford Time Travel book 2
12. Blackout/all Clear (2011)
by Willis, Connie
- On the same lists
BLackout / All Clear by Connie Willis won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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13. Annihilation
by Vandermeer, Jeff
- On the same lists
An expedition enters the strange, shifting Area X and does not come back the same, a weird-fiction Nebula winner.
Annihilation won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Novel. It beat out the following nominees to win:The Goblin Emperor Trial by Fire Ancillary Sword The Three-Body Problem Coming Home
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14. Starship Troopers
by Heinlein, Robert A.
- On the same lists
The world government in this future Earth is run by veterans and citizens must earn the right to vote and hold public office with federal service.
Book Flap Description A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against humankind's most frightening enemy. ...
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15. Lord Of The Rings
by Tolkien, J.r.r.
- On the same lists
In this classic fantasy example, Frodo and his buddies embark on a grand quest with the fate of Middle Earth at stake. During the course of the very long and physical journey, Frodo also embarks on an internal journey.
I read this when I was 9 - four times that is. Maybe I was just a kid, but I had never seen or imagined anything like this series. You...
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Hyperion Cantos book 1 Start here
16. Hyperion
by Simmons, Dan
- On the same lists
So most of this series is in fact, not Dying Earth but it is a pinnacle of science fiction. The Poet's Tale: Hyperion Cantos in the first novel of Hyperion is a part of the Dying Earth sub-genre and it is the connection the readers have from Earth to the strange new universe of Hyperion.
A grand intelligent space opera tale that also tells a series of very personal tales. This juxtaposition between epic and the personal gives real life to the story. The whole...
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17. The City & The City
by Miéville, China
- On the same lists
A startling premise that was so foreign yet so fascinating. This is a detective novel like you've never read, with such a distinct setting that you'll never forget it. And...
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The Book Of The New Sun book 2
18. The Claw Of The Conciliator (1982)
by Wolfe, Gene
- On the same lists
The Claw of the Concilliator by Gene Wolfe won the 1982 Nebula Award for Best Novel
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19. Armor
by Steakley, John
- On the same lists
Some of best battlefield action scenes I’ve ever read. You literally feel the rush of adrenaline, the shock, confusion, and horror of the battlefield. There is literally never, ever a...
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20. The Road
by Mccarthy, Cormac
- On the same lists
A father and son walk a burned-out America toward the sea, in McCarthy's bleak and beautiful end-of-the-world novel.
robably one of the most depressing books I’ve read in my life. Oh yes, it’s well written, brilliant maybe, and all that. However, this book stripped all hope away and...
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21. Forever Peace (1999)
by Haldeman, Joe
- On the same lists
In 2048, soldiers fight a war through remote-controlled robot bodies, and Julian Class, a physicist and a mechanic, operates one through a link wired into his skull. When his platoon...
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Imperial Radch book 1 Start here
22. Ancillary Justice (2014)
by Leckie, Ann
- On the same lists
Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie (Book 1 in the Imperial Radch trilogy) won the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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23. 2312 (2013)
by Robinson, Kim Stanley
- On the same lists
Society has spread across the solar system. The society is nonbinary and gender and sexuality are thought of fluidly. In this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, present, and future.
In the 24th century, humanity has spread through the solar system to hollowed-out asteroids, Mercury's moving city and the terraformed worlds. When Alex, the grandmother who raised her, dies, Swan...
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24. Powers (2009)
by Guin, Ursula K. Le
- On the same lists
Gavir is a slave in the city of Etra, brought up with the children of the household that owns him and educated like them. He can remember a page of...
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25. Seeker (2007)
by Mcdevitt, Jack
- On the same lists
Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot Chase Kolpath come across a cup with ancient markings that appears to have come from the Seeker, a colony ship that left Earth...
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26. Camouflage (2006)
by Haldeman, Joe
- On the same lists
Millions of years before humans appeared, two immortal shapeshifters, who don't know each other, begin wandering the Earth. One learns and grows more human as it goes. The other lives...
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27. The Speed Of Dark (2004)
by Moon, Elizabeth
- On the same lists
This novel takes place on a near-future Earth where disease is a thing of the past, but there is a lost generation that missed this cure. Moon gives us a very real story about autism and individual identity.
Lou Arrendale is an autistic adult in the near future, one of a generation too old to have been treated in childhood. He has a good job finding patterns in...
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28. Darwin's Radio (2001)
by Bear, Greg
- On the same lists
In the Alps, an anthropologist finds the frozen bodies of a Neanderthal couple and their baby. In the former Soviet Union, investigators examine a mass grave of people whose pregnancies...
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29. Parable Of The Talents (2000)
by Butler, Octavia E.
- On the same lists
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler won the 2000 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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30. The Moon And The Sun (1998)
by Mcintyre, Vonda N.
- On the same lists
The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre won the 1998 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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