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Books like Revelation Space
The best books like Revelation Space are A Brief History of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and Cosmos. Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds is about the fermi paradox, deep time, transhumanism. 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.
- 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 → - The Fabric of the Cosmos
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Brian Greene · Science
The Fabric of the Cosmos is Brian Greene's attempt to explain what physicists actually mean when they talk about space and time — not the intuitive everyday notions, but the deeply strange picture that emerges from general relativity and quantum mechanics.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Cosmos
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Carl Sagan · Science
Cosmos is Carl Sagan's attempt to tell the full story of the universe and humanity's place in it — from the Big Bang to the origins of life to the rise of science as a way of knowing.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson · Science
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is Neil deGrasse Tyson's deliberately compact introduction to the biggest ideas in modern astrophysics.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Martian
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Andy Weir · Science fiction
Mark Watney is accidentally left behind on Mars when his crewmates, believing him dead, abort their mission during a storm and launch for Earth.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - And Then There Were None
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Agatha Christie · Mystery
Ten strangers are invited to an island off the Devon coast under various pretexts.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - In a Dark, Dark Wood
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Ruth Ware · Thriller
Nora receives an out-of-the-blue invitation to a hen party she has no reason to attend — it's for Clare, a friend she hasn't spoken to in ten years, whose circle Nora no longer belongs to.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe · Classics
Robinson Crusoe is the fictional memoir of an Englishman shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island for twenty-eight years.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - The Ancestor's Tale
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Richard Dawkins · Science
The Ancestor's Tale is Richard Dawkins's account of the history of life on Earth, told backwards: beginning with humans and traveling back in evolutionary time to meet successive ancestors at the points where different lineages join.
Both dig into deep time.
Read the summary → - The Atlas Six
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Olivie Blake · Fantasy
Six of the world's most powerful young magicians are recruited by the Alexandrian Society, a secret organization that has preserved forbidden knowledge since antiquity.
Both dig into isolation.
Read the summary → - The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
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Peter Brannen · Science
Peter Brannen is a science journalist who spent years reporting on paleontology and geology, and The Ends of the World is the result of that work: a deep history of the five major mass extinctions in Earth's past, told through visits to the scientists who decode them and the rock formations that preserve their evidence.
Both dig into deep time.
Read the summary → - The Singularity Is Near
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Ray Kurzweil · Science
The Singularity Is Near is Ray Kurzweil's forecast that the exponential growth of information technology — computing power, storage, bandwidth, and the reverse-engineering of the human brain — will produce a technological singularity around 2045: a point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence in all relevant domains, beyond which we cannot reliably predict what happens.
Both dig into transhumanism.
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Books like Revelation Space: quick answers
What are the best books like Revelation Space?
The best books like Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds are A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Cosmos by Carl Sagan, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Martian by Andy Weir, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Revelation Space, such as the fermi paradox, deep time, transhumanism.
What should I read after Revelation Space?
A natural next read after Revelation Space is A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. A kindred science fiction read. Other strong choices are The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Cosmos by Carl Sagan, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
What books are similar to Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds?
Revelation Space centers on the fermi paradox, deep time, transhumanism. Books with a similar feel include A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, Cosmos by Carl Sagan, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Martian by Andy Weir, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
