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Books like Hyperion
The best books like Hyperion are 1984, The Alchemist, and War and Peace. Hyperion by Dan Simmons is about fate and sacrifice, time and memory, religion and faith. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality
The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - War and Peace
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Leo Tolstoy · Literary fiction
War and Peace follows five aristocratic Russian families across fifteen years of Napoleonic war and peace, from the drawing rooms of St.
A kindred science fiction read.
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- A Brief History of Time
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Stephen Hawking · Science
A Brief History of Time is Stephen Hawking's attempt to explain the biggest questions in physics — where the universe came from, how it behaves, and where it might be going — to readers with no scientific training.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Mrs Dalloway
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Virginia Woolf · Literary fiction
Mrs Dalloway takes place over the course of a single June day in London in 1923, following Clarissa Dalloway — the wife of a politician, preparing for an evening party — and Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran who never intersects with Clarissa but exists in parallel throughout the novel.
Both dig into time and memory.
Read the summary → - Slaughterhouse-Five
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Kurt Vonnegut · Literary fiction
Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.
Both dig into time and memory.
Read the summary → - 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Arthur C. Clarke · Science fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey begins with prehistoric man-apes encountering a featureless black monolith that somehow catalyzes their cognitive leap from prey to hunter.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Fire Upon the Deep
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Vernor Vinge · Science fiction
The galaxy in A Fire Upon the Deep is zoned by the speed of thought: near the galactic core, the Slowness, where intelligence itself is limited; farther out, the Unthinking Depths; and further still, the Transcend, where entities of incomprehensible intelligence emerge and occasionally intervene in the affairs of the merely civilized.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers · Science fiction
Rosemary Harper boards the Wayfarer under a false identity, hoping to escape a family history she cannot speak about.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Memory Called Empire
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Arkady Martine · Science fiction
Mahit Dzmare, ambassador from a small, semi-independent mining station to the vast Teixcalaanli Empire, arrives at the capital to find her predecessor has died under suspicious circumstances and the neural implant that was supposed to give her access to his memories and knowledge is three years out of date.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - All Systems Red
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Martha Wells · Science fiction
Murderbot is a SecUnit — part robot, part cloned human tissue — that has hacked its own governor module and is technically free, though it has chosen not to tell anyone.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Annihilation
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Jeff VanderMeer · Science fiction
A team of four unnamed women — the biologist, the anthropologist, the surveyor, and the psychologist — enter Area X, a forbidden coastal wilderness where something has gone wrong for decades.
A kindred science fiction read.
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Books like Hyperion: quick answers
What are the best books like Hyperion?
The best books like Hyperion by Dan Simmons are 1984 by George Orwell, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Hyperion, such as fate and sacrifice, time and memory, religion and faith.
What should I read after Hyperion?
A natural next read after Hyperion is 1984 by George Orwell. A kindred science fiction read. Other strong choices are The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
What books are similar to Hyperion by Dan Simmons?
Hyperion centers on fate and sacrifice, time and memory, religion and faith. Books with a similar feel include 1984 by George Orwell, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
