The Left Hand Of Darkness (1970)
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30 fantasy books to read after The Left Hand Of Darkness (1970), by Guin, Ursula K. Le, the closest match first.
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1. Powers (2009)
by Guin, Ursula K. Le
- Same author
- 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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2. Tehanu: The Last Book Of Earthsea (1991)
by Guin, Ursula K. Le
- Same author
- On the same lists
Tehanu: The Last Book Of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin won the 1991 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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3. 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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4. Annihilation
by Vandermeer, Jeff
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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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5. Speaker For The Dead (1987)
by Card, Orson Scott
- 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. The Speed Of Dark (2004)
by Moon, Elizabeth
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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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Slow River (1997)
by Griffith, Nicola
- On the same lists
Lore Van Oesterling is the heir to a family that makes bioengineered waste-treatment bacteria. After a failed kidnapping she wakes up naked in an alley, her identity implant cut out....
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17. The Terminal Experiment (1996)
by Sawyer, Robert J.
- On the same lists
The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer won the 1996 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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18. Moving Mars (1995)
by Bear, Greg
- On the same lists
Casseia Majumdar grows up in a powerful family on a Mars that is settled, self-governing and increasingly at odds with Earth. As a young politician she is drawn into the...
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19. Red Mars (1994)
by Robinson, Kim Stanley
- On the same lists
A mission is launched to terraform Mars in this scientific epic.
In 2026, a hundred colonists set off on the first long voyage to Mars. Among them are John Boone, the first man to walk on the planet, and his rival...
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20. Doomsday Book (1993)
by Willis, Connie
- On the same lists
In 2054, Oxford historians send students back in time to study the past. Kivrin Engle, a young historian, is sent to the English countryside in 1320. But a technician falls...
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21. Stations Of The Tide (1992)
by Swanwick, Michael
- On the same lists
Stations of the Tide by Michael Swanwick won the 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
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22. The Healer's War (1990)
by Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann
- On the same lists
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Scarborough won the 1990 Nebular Award for Best Novel
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23. Falling Free (1989)
by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster
- On the same lists
A long running and award winning series that mixes politics, romance, medical ethics, personal identity, and hierarchies.
The quaddies are a generation of people engineered by the corporation GalacTech to work in zero gravity, with four arms and no legs, and they are treated as company property....
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24. The Falling Woman (1988)
by Murphy, Pat
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Archaeologist Liz Butler can see the shades of the dead, a gift that helps her work and makes her wonder whether she is sane. At a dig in the Yucatán...
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25. Neuromancer (1985)
by Gibson, William
- On the same lists
Gibson is the father of Cyberpunk and this novel in particular is significant. In this novel the term cyberspace is coined.
Case was the best hacker in the Sprawl until his employers damaged his nervous system, and now he can no longer reach cyberspace. He drifts through the criminal underworld of...
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26. Startide Rising (1984)
by Brin, David
- On the same lists
The Streaker, a spaceship crewed by dolphins, with a few human officers, discovers an ancient fleet that may belong to the Progenitors, the legendary first race. Every other species in...
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27. Timescape (1981)
by Benford, Gregory
- On the same lists
A novel about ecological issues and scientific experiments that address current events at the time of writing.
In 1998 an ecological catastrophe is poisoning the oceans and the atmosphere. A group of scientists in Cambridge try to send a message back in time using tachyons, particles that...
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28. The Fountains Of Paradise (1980)
by Clarke, Arthur C.
- On the same lists
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke won the 1980 Nebula Award for Best Novel
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29. Dreamsnake (1979)
by Mcintyre, Vonda N.
- On the same lists
After a nuclear war, healers wander the wasteland with three snakes: a cobra and a rattlesnake that make medicines, and a rare dreamsnake whose bite eases the dying. The healer...
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30. Gateway (1978)
by Pohl, Frederik
- On the same lists
Robinette Broadhead is rich, and he has a lot to feel guilty about. In sessions with his robot psychiatrist, he talks about how he got there: he won a lottery...
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